Issue(s): Human Fly #18, Human Fly #19
Cover Date: Feb-Mar 79
Title: "A gathering of vultures" / "Highwire to heaven"
Credits:
Bill Mantlo - Writer
Lee Elias - Penciler
Tex Blaisdell & Ricardo Villamonte / Ricardo Villamonte - Inker

Review/plot:
The Human Fly shows up somewhere to perform some stunts and, surprise, surprise, there's bad guys in need of stomping.

This time, the Fly and crew are at a Hopi Indian reservation, and the tribal elders are all drunks under the thumb of the local bar owner (hey! *i* didn't write this!).

The Elders are shaken out of their stupor when a member of the tribe uses a movie projector to display the Hopi Gods on the clouds during the Human Fly's stunt .

These are the last issues of the Human Fly series. The cancellation must have been sudden. The lettercol says:

...the fact that the Fly's well on his way into his second year as a comic book character must say something about his success in the medium. We're hoping the next year will be as encouraging as the first, while we attempt to add an element of drama that Bill has said he felt the book was lacking . The current storyline was conceived to correct precisely that lack of drama.

The lettercol is also full of little fly drawings, which is weird.

But then the last panel announces that the series is over.

Oh well!

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• Harmony Whyte has gone from a reporter who once tried to expose the Human Fly as a colossal fraud in Human Fly #11 to someone who considers him a "courageous hero" and now approvingly reports his exploits.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A