#157: Green Dolphin Street

The red Ferrari pulled off of East Jefferson, turning toward the Detroit River on cobblestoned Dauphin Street in the city’s warehouse district past the intersection with Verdigris Street. The French names were a vestige of Détroit’s colonial past. The vehicle roared to a stop in front of a sashed warehouse that might have been new at the turn of the century. Faded, painted letters barely legible on red bricks read: Green Dolphin Street—Warehousing, Inc.

#156: Garage Band

Eddy Pershing stood in the middle of his neighbor’s empty garage blowing into a tenor saxophone. The garage was spotless, Eddy noted; not even so much as an oil stain from the one parked car it was built to hold. Eddy also noted that his own family’s garage, built for two, was so crammed full of his father’s junk it couldn’t hold any cars.

#155: Stakeout

The Phantom Jungle Girl and Clarissa sat in the Pinto belonging to Donna Blank, which was parked along a residential neighborhood in Detroit. Fanny wielded a camera with a long telephoto lens propped atop the steering wheel; she had it trained on an apartment house further down the street. Clarissa sat with a comic book-sized brown paper bag on her lap; she was flipping through newly-purchased copies of Megatron Man #3 and #4.

#154: Visiting Artists

Consternation was brewing in the offices of Vice Principal Victoria Bryant. The ambitious young African-American administrator was seeing her dreams crumble before her eyes. Always upbeat Student Activities Director Ernie Penn Pierson, for whom “school spirit” was an unofficial middle name, was doing his best to cheer her up.