The Medusa Curse
First "Body Crime" appearance of "Pio-7," special agent for Interpol. As the blurb indicates, this story (about a preternaturally seductive killer who is revealed to be a body-jumping demon) is a reprint from an early "Bodyshift." But Pio-7 went on to have a career battling more mundane body criminals. His adventures were never terribly popular, perhaps because his main schtick—a resistance to female charms—ran somewhat counter to the demands of the genre. However, he was a useful protagonist for writers who needed a hero who could beat back feminine wiles, and his appearances, though spotty, continued. (See the modcomic "The Thesmophorian Addendum" for a typical outing.) He got a semi-revival in the late 1980s, and "The Medusa Curse" was retold (shorn of its supernatural elements) in Body Crime issue No. 590. In 2001 he suffered the ultimate indignity.
