Corner Slides



Bottom Left: Artie’s special coach turns the corner and races away.
Upper Right: Loveless delivers an ultimatum.
Lower Right: Caged West
Upper Left: The Wanderer pulls away.

This is the first of the evil Dr. Loveless' ten appearances.

Richard Kiel is well know to fans of British superspy James Bond for his appearances as the homicidal henchman Jaws in the films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker.

Artemus: It’s not you I’m worried about. I just don’t like to break in a whole new partner!

Loveless: (impatiently waiting for his victim to appear) Come on, Neilsen! If there’s anything I can’t stand, it’s a dawdler!!

James: With an explosive like that, one man, just one man, could bring a whole nation to its knees!

Loveless: Ah, Greta, you’ve done what I was unable to do. You’ve brought Mr. West. But with one serious oversight. You’ve brought him alive!!

Loveless: An explosive like that in the hands of politicians and generals? Vermin, ought to be exterminated...every one of them!

Loveless: (his plans in ruin) You… meddler! You interfering meddler. You…vile…egregious…secret service man! (starts to cry)

They're vermin; they should be exterminated!
Loveless has no use for politicians and generals. This foreshadows the eventual location of his explosive charge next to the governor's mansion - a likely place to exterminate a hefty batch of politicians. Jim doesn't need to pick up on this, since he is able to obtain the information from Greta by befriending and seducing her.

The crossbow bolt
West is lucky that Loveless attempted his assassination by crossbow personally, for it is likely that the doctor's weapon was scaled to his size and strength. Crossbows were developed to penetrate armor; at a range of a few yards, the lid of a barrel would not have stopped the quarrel fired by a full sized weapon. Loveless may have selected the crossbow because it is relatively silent and far easier to learn than the longbow.