Ebb-Tide is the first of two stories about Ian Carr, Carol and the Tracy brothers. Ian Carr is played by David Wright's son Nicky. Arnold Tracy is played by John Bodkin-Adams, notorious accused serial killer. Click here for a good Wikipedia article on Bodkin-Adams.

Note the changing times reflected in Carol's beach wear in this story compared to the bikini in [Uncle Richard] 8 years later.

This story is scanned from second generation photocopies of David Wright's tearsheet scrapbooks, enhanced in Photoshop for readability. Hence the presentation is not all that we would wish, but we hope that you'll agree that having the story in any form is better than nothing.

A huge debt of gratitude goes to Jim Ottaviani for making the trip to Michigan State University, making copies of their copy of David Wright's notebooks, and experimenting in Photoshop to optimize the quality of the resulting scans. His efforts made the presentation of this story possible.