Created by Stanley Charlot Pseudonym of Bob Powell (1916-67) You think Perry Mason was a bad-ass? Scrappy, two-fisted "girl attorney" (first a defense lawyer and later District Attorney) BETTY BATES regularly lined 'em up and knocked 'em down in a long running Hit Comics backup feature in the 1940s, appearing in over 60 stories in … Continue reading Betty Bates (Lady at Law)
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Bill & Sally Reardon (There’s Always a Woman)
Created by Wilson Collison In the screwball thriller There's Always a Woman (1938, Columbia), BILL REARDON (Melvyn Douglas) quits his comfy job an investigator with the District Attorney's office to open up his own detective agency at the urging of his pushy but ditzy wife SALLY REARDON (Joan Blondell). But the agency never quite … Continue reading Bill & Sally Reardon (There’s Always a Woman)
Tom Kerry, District Attorney
Created by Ken Ernst and Gardner Fox. TOM KERRY is NOT a private eye. But he thinks he is, and he sure acts like one, in a dozen action-packed comic book adventures in Vincent Sullivan's Big Shot Comics (is that a cool name or what?), alongside such other regulars as Joe Palooka, Charlie Chan and Dixie … Continue reading Tom Kerry, District Attorney