Random Reads: "The Underground Gambit!" by Wein and Trimpe

Hey, hey, hey, Groove-ophiles! Sometimes you pick up a comic expecting one thing, and sometimes said comic can surprise you! Take for instance Creatures on the Loose #11 (February 1971). According to the klassic Jack Kirby kover, Young Groove was in for a heaping helping of  "Moomba", a classic Stan Lee/Kirby creature feature. After devouring that mini-epic, I expected more Atlas-era mystery reprints, but instead was pleasantly pleased to find a brand new (then, baby, then!) short-shocker by Len Wein and Herb Trimpe called "The Underground Gambit!" No Atlas-era monsters here, just a square masquerading as an underground cartoonist and...well, just read it!