THANK YOU, PROFESSOR. MOVING ON NOW … TODAY’S NEW FRONTIERSMAN MAKES AN APPEAL FOR CLEMENCY ON BEHALF OF COSTUMED ADVENTURERS. IT’S BEEN DESCRIBED BY NOVA EXPRESS WRITER-EDITOR DOUG ROTH AS “ATTEMPTING TO GRAFT AN ACCEPTABLE FACE ONTO GLORIFIED KLAN-STYLE BRUTALITY.

DOUG ROTH. MEANWHILE, AS PUBLIC RESENTMENT GROWS TOWARDS MASKED HEROES FOLLOWING DR. MANHATTAN’S ABANDONMENT OF EARTH, POLICE ADMIT HAVING NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT RUMORS OF VIGILANTE INVOLVEMENT IN SATURDAY’S TENEMENT RESCUE … JUST COMING ON; THE PRISONER SCALDED BY CAPTURED VIGILANTE RORSCHACH DIED THIS AFTERNOON. FEARING A RIOT, PRISON SPOKESMEN SAY THEY’RE “LOOKING INTO THE JAWS OF HELL”.