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The Headless Horseman
1st app.- Uncanny Tales # 22
In recent years, two investment brokers named Sam Langhorn and Joe Jennings (both attracted to the same woman, Sally Klee), journeyed to Sleepy Hollow for a vacation. Langhorn had the idea to impersonate the Headless Horseman, and frighten Jennings away just as Ichabod Crane was in the novel, but while waiting for him, he was beset upon by another Headless Horseman, who threw his head at him. Langhorn awoke in a mental hospital, insane.
Jennings and Sally Klee were proud of the work they had done, impersonating the Horseman to get rid of Langhorn, but as they drove away from Sleepy Hollow, the real Headless Horseman appeared before them, and threw his head at their car, knocking it off a bridge, and killing them both.
Years later, businessman Bones Bullinger impersonated the Headless Horseman in order to force off the road and kill police officer Matt Carter who was coming close to exposing several of his more shady deals. Private investigator Duke Durbano prevented an attempt to silence Carter's wife and attempted to link Matt's death to Bullinger. As he discovered a headless horseman costume in Bullinger's possession, the ghost of the real horseman took offense at his name being used for criminal purposes and appeared to Bullinger and his men, scaring them all into having heart attacks. Although he saw the ghost himself, Durbano blamed it on an overactive imagination. Credit- marvunapp.com |