MASKED MADNESS:
                            JUDGEMENT FOR THE DARK...
         
         
               “WILL YOU HURRYT UP JOEt” HARV~ BANKLIER HIS SED.JOE WAS DEEP IN’4 THOJ
         GHT !HOUGH~THEY? JUST DISCOVERED THE SECRET PANEL UNDER THE SHOCL BUIL])11
             “WE HAVE DISCOKERED THE THING OF THE CENTURYV JOE HOOTED CLASPI5 HIS
         HAND ON HIS YOUNGER BROTHER SHOULD3R.H*RVY~ LOCKED AROUND NERVOUSLY.HIES
         BROTHER Wa~S THE ONE,1~HO LIVE]) FOR EXCITEMENT ElY! HIM.JOEY WAS TEARING AWAY
         AT SOME BOARDS.
           “C’~MO54JOE.W3 SHOULDN’tT BE DOWN HERE.” HARVYT WINED.JOR SHOVED HIM BACK.
         “‘K)U GO SCARDEY CAT? I’M GONNA FIND OUJT THE SECRET OF DEFOREST HIGH IP IT
         KILLS ME:” JOE SHOUTED.THERE WAS A LIGH~U NOW.THE BOARDS WERE WETHERED AND
         ROUGW ,AND JOE COULD CLEARLT SEE THE GOLDEN LIGH5!.HE KICKED THE REST 0? TilE
         DEBREA~ AWAY~ AND HOPPER INSIDEEIHE LET OUT A WHOOP.
         “RARVY BRO LOOK AT THIS.” HE LET OUT A WHISTLE AND IIARVY SAID A PRAY~ER AND
         JUMPED THROUGH ~ HOLLTHERE WAS A GIANT CLEAR ROCK.IT RES~BLED A CLEAR,
         CUT DIAMOND IN ABOUT THREE FEET WIDE AND A FOOT TALL.HARVT COULDN’T BELIEVE
         HIS FORTUNE WAS RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF HIM.
           “THE YOUNGEST OF YOU IS TO WISH.” A VOICE SAID.THEY BOTH JUMPED.JOEYJ
         WAS TRULY 3)11MB FOUNDED.
           “WHAT IS YOUR WISH HARVY?~’ THE VOICE ASKED.HARVY RuBBED HIS BLUE EYES AND
         COUNTE3~ TO TEM.FIE PICTURED ALL THE FAMOUR PEOPLE BEFORE HIS TIME.HITLEIF,
         EINSTEIN,PRANKLIN,00LOMBUS.THEN HE PICTURED HIMSELF AND OTIIERS.THEN DEMONS
         IN ‘JIBE COMICS HE WAS SO FOND OF.HE WISHED HE COULD DECIDE.
              “IT IS GRANTED.” THE VOICE SAID IN A DEADPAN TONE.JOEY LOOKED AT HIS
         BROTHER.
              “WHAT DID I WISH FORL?” HARVY SCRRAMED.THE VOICE CHUCKLED.
         “DO NOT PLAY?,GJIMES HARVY~’.YOU WISHED FOR EVERY ONCE—FAMOUS—DEAD PERSON AND
         ALL PEOPLE OF INPORTANCE TO HAVE DEMON POSSESED TWINS.STRANGE WISff I DO
         ADMIT.BUT HARVY AT LEAST YOU DID NOT WISH FOR A DATE WITH BRITIANY LOCK.”
         ~ARVY WANTED TO SCREA14I.JOEY LOOKED PALE.TERROR. • .HORROR.THAT WAS ALL THE
         WOULDSEE UNTIL SOME SORT OF FIGHTING TEAM WAS ESSEMBLED.............
         
                           DARK AFETR.....
         
              COB! LORDS ,AGE TWENTY JOGGED OUT TO THE MAILBOX AN]) SORTED THROUGH THE
         DAILY MAIII.STANDING A LITTLE OVER SIX FEET,00RI WAS THE TOUGHEST WOMAN COM-
         BAT AR~rIST THAT HAS EVER LIVED.~SHE PUSHED HER BLOND HAIR OUT OF HER EYES
         AN]) TO HER AMAZEMENT FOUND A. VERY IMPORTANT LOOKING LETTER.SHE HELD IT UP
         TO THE SUN AND TRIED TO LOOK INSIDE.NO LUCK.SHE STUFFED THE LETTERS IN HER
         POCKET.THIS WAS IN BEVERLY HIIL~ (~‘.LI ~O~iTI .LE.ANN SCHULTZ ORDERED THE MAID
         TO GET HER MAIL.THE MAID NODDED AND DISAPPEARED,LEANNN WAS A GENIUS.AS SIM-
         PLE AS THAT • SHE SWUNG HER LONG LEGS OFF THE DIVING BOARD AN]) DIVED INTO THE
         COOL BLUE WATER.SHE SUKNACED AND SWAM WITH BRISK STROKES TO THE SIDE AN])
         HOISTED HERSELF UP.THE MAID WAS BACK A PUZZLED EXPRESSION ON HER FACE.SHE
         HANDED LEANN THE ~$AME ENVELOPE CORI HAD RECEIVED,THIS WAS IN FLORDIA.JESSE
         TRAPPER WAS PRACTICING KARATE SKILS WHEN THE GIN CEA BARGED IN HANDING JESSE
         THE SAME ENVELOPE LEANN,AN]) CORI HAD RECEIVED.JESSE STRAIGHTENED HIMSELF TO
         HIS SIX FOOT.4LX FIGURE.JESSE WAS TIED WITH CORI LORDS EXCEPT HE WAS THE
         BEST AMONG THE MALES RGH!PERS.THIS WAS IN N~I YORK CITY.RALPHALLEN ST(CL~
         WAS BUSY WATERING THE PLASTIC FLOWERS EllEN THE MAILMAN BURT,DELIVERED A
         DOG CHEWN,KMI PAWED AND GOOSE MESSED UP ENVELOPE TO HIM.BURT WAS A STOUT
         MAN WITH A BEARD AND SPIKE]) HAIR,WHICH WAS MUCH MORE NO2Efl~1AL THAN RALPHALLEN
         HIM~~SRALPHALLEN WHIPPED AROUND SHOWERING BURT WITH THE HOSE.
                 BARTY’ BOYI WHAT BRING YOU TO ME PLASTY FLOWRRRR GERDEN?” BURT