EL TIGRE AZUL
Three Witches
By Duane Spurlock
Interrobang Tales
214 pgs
It’s the 1970s, and El Tigre Azul (the Blue Tiger) is a professional Mexican masked wrestler better known as a luchador. Aside from his ring career, he is also famous for fighting evil supernatural threats wherever they arise. In this first-in-print collection, Spurlock’s fun hero battles three over-the-top villains from Mexico to Paris, France. Thus, the “Three Witches” sub-title.
In the first tale, El Tigre Azul confronts a Mexican witch who has mesmerized a young wrestler to do her bidding. With his help, she turns an average game-cock into a giant, monster chicken that destroys the gambling den in a wild rampage. How El Tigre defeats it is wild and fantastic. This is followed by his trip to Paris, where he confronts a water-witch living in the Seine River and callously drowns her victims. The Mexican warrior has his hands full when he seeks her out in her underwater lair.
The final, and most amazing adventure, has the Blue Tiger taking on an ageless elemental being without shape or form. It attempts to kill him by casting him back in time. To survive he has to continue fighting his way through one era after another. It is a grand pulp adventure and a great finale to what is a truly wonderful book. Kudos, Duane Spurlock, and please, give us more El Tigre Azul!
