Saw something like that set up in an alternate Chicago in a Wearing the Cape story. In that one, it was a precursor to a kidnapping attempt. Are we about to see Cyber (was that his nom de cap given on page 14?) in action when the opposition thinks they have him vulnerable?
Bergman
on October 8, 2019 at 1:24 pm
There was a real life assassination back during the Cold War in Germany that was a much more elegant version of the comic.
This one Soviet-backed group believed that the stock market was rigged, and that certain people were issued “secret codes” that allowed them to make money off of the system. So they picked a specific investment banker, publicly announced the day he would die for his crimes against the working class, and set up what was probably the most elegant car bomb assassination in history.
He had a heavily armored limo, with scout, lead and tail cars full of bodyguards. It didn’t help. His limo got blown up with a plate bomb as his chauffeur drove past a city park. The satchel the bomb was in was implaced between the time his motorcade started driving and the time it passed the park, so the scout team was already past when it was set up. It used a photoelectric eye to time the detonator, and the thing armed itself when the lead car broke the beam, then the fuse was just long enough for the limo to be centered in front of the bomb when it went off.
The limo was picked up and spun around in the air like a toy car, the banker was killed instantly. The worst injuries among the guy’s employees was the chauffeur the head of the security detail (in the front passenger seat) had ringing ears and dizziness. Zero collateral damage.
Saw something like that set up in an alternate Chicago in a Wearing the Cape story. In that one, it was a precursor to a kidnapping attempt. Are we about to see Cyber (was that his nom de cap given on page 14?) in action when the opposition thinks they have him vulnerable?
There was a real life assassination back during the Cold War in Germany that was a much more elegant version of the comic.
This one Soviet-backed group believed that the stock market was rigged, and that certain people were issued “secret codes” that allowed them to make money off of the system. So they picked a specific investment banker, publicly announced the day he would die for his crimes against the working class, and set up what was probably the most elegant car bomb assassination in history.
He had a heavily armored limo, with scout, lead and tail cars full of bodyguards. It didn’t help. His limo got blown up with a plate bomb as his chauffeur drove past a city park. The satchel the bomb was in was implaced between the time his motorcade started driving and the time it passed the park, so the scout team was already past when it was set up. It used a photoelectric eye to time the detonator, and the thing armed itself when the lead car broke the beam, then the fuse was just long enough for the limo to be centered in front of the bomb when it went off.
The limo was picked up and spun around in the air like a toy car, the banker was killed instantly. The worst injuries among the guy’s employees was the chauffeur the head of the security detail (in the front passenger seat) had ringing ears and dizziness. Zero collateral damage.