Created by Unknown (text) & George Marcoux (art)
Or possibly a Canadian reprint of a British comic?
Hard to tell. There’s scant and often contradictory information on Star Studded Comics, in which “The Murderer That Had No Feet” appeared.
Anyway…
The story goes that after showing up the cops one time too many (he had a knack for cracking seemingly impossible cases), private eye RED ROONEY gets his license yanked by a pissed-off police captain.
But you can’t keep a good man down, so he ends up fighting crime as RED ROGUE, a masked super doofus decked out in a red costume, complete with a cape and, um, tennis shorts?
Those are the only screen grabs and info I could find — the story itself may be lost to the ages. For which we may well be grateful.
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Star Studded Comics, assuming it was a Canadian publication, was one of those so-called Canadian Whites that appeared in the early forties, when the government deemed American comics “non-essential” imports under war-time restrictions, and a whole new, home-grown industry was born. They were called “Whites” because most of them had colour covers but black and white interiors, due to printing costs. The Whites only lasted about six years —after the war, the restrictions were lifted, and American comics once more flooded the market.
COMICS
- STAR STUDDED COMICS
(1946, Superior Publications)- “The Murderer That Had No Feet” (1945; #1)
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith. Any more info would be greatly appreciated.
