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K the Unknown: See
The Black Owl |
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K-51: 1939, Wonder Comics (Fox Features). K-51 is a master spy for America. His fiance is Claire. |
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Kaanga: Jungle Comics #1 (Fiction). One of the most successful of the comic book Tarzan wannabes, Kaanga is a white boy orphaned when his family and the members of their expedition are slaughtered in the Congo. The boy is adopted and raised by a tribe of "ape-men". As an adult, he meets up with a group of white explorers who re-educate him in their ways and he falls in love with one of them, Ann Mason. The pair marry and live in the jungles fighting all sorts of evil from rogue animals, witch doctors, smugglers, poachers, and Germans. |
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Kalkor: 1941, Fantastic Comics#22 (Fox). Kalkor is a high priest of Isis and nemesis of Nagana, the Queen of Evil. When she comes back to life after 3,000 years, he returns to Earth as John Kerry to oppose her. While he wears street clothes as John Kerry, when he goes into super-heroic action he wears Egyptian styled garb. Like Nagana he has vague supernatural abilities. |
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Larry Kane: 1940, Amazing Mystery Funnies #18 (Centaur) OR The Arrow
#1 (Centaur). Globetrotting adventurer. |
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Rod "Kayo"Kane: 1943, All New Comics #1 (Family/Harvey). Rod Kane is
a logger for the Northmill Lumber Company who is also a very good boxer.
He is helped by his best friend Mason. |
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Kangaroo Man: 1941, Choice Comics #1 (Great Publications). Kangaroo trainer Jack Brian tours Australia and America fighting the bad guys with the aid of Bingo the
Kangaroo. Bingo is like many comicbook animals and has intelligence and personality approximating a human being, to the point that he can even operate a motorcycle. |
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Kara, Jungle Princess: 1945, Exciting Comics #39 (Better). American
Jane Howell ruled a jungle kingdom of immortals with the help of her army boyfriend
Major Kit. |
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Ken Keen: 1940, Silver Streak Comics #3 (Lev Gleason). Captain Ken Keen
is part of the Planet Patrol, peace keepers of the solar system in the future. He's
helped by "Nirma, the Martian beauty." |
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Inspector Keene: 1948, Super-Mystery Comics v7n4 (Ace). Ace detective watsoned by a man named Ryan, the two were in at least one mini can-you-solve-it mysteries. |
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Kitty Kelly: 1946, Red Seal
Comics #17 (Harry "A" Chessler). In times of danger
and stress, Kitty Kelly became super-strong.
NOTE: There's a convoluted history regarding the name
leading to some confusion with the character and another by the
name of Yankee Girl. In Punch Comics 1 & 2, 1941-42, there
was an adventure strip about an attractive airline hostess by
the name of Kitty Kelly. The name would show up again in 1945,
in Captain Flight Comics 8 & 9, still an airline hostess but
now with the nick-name Yankee Girl attached. In 1946, Harry "A"
Chessler, who published Punch Comics, would put out another Kitty
Kelly with a costume and super-powers in Red Seal Comics 17. However,
she did not go by the name of Yankee Girl. To further complicate
matters, in Dynamic Comics #23 (sometime in the mid-40's), Chessler
would publish another super-powered heroine called Yankee Girl
but with the secret identity of Lauren Mason and not an airline
hostess. |
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Tom Kerry: 1940, Big Shot #1 (Columbia). Tom Kerry is a crusading District
Attorney, willing and capable of using a gun as he is the law in bringing crooks to justice. |
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Kid Terrific: 1944, Terrific Comics #1 (Continental). A two-fisted adventurer who fights the Axis with the aid of a street urchin named Jimmie. |
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Kid Tyrant: 1942, Target Comics v3#1 (Funnies/Novelty). Ragsy Murphy is a comicbook fan and actually puts on a costume of his favorite hero, Tyrant and is quickly named "Kid Tyrant". He has no powers but he's good with his fists. |
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Sergeant Bill King: 1940, Exciting Comics #1 (Better Publications).
Sergeant Bill King is a British soldierin Europe fighting the
Nazis. |
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Sir Oliver King: 1940, The Arrow #1 (Centaur). Sir Oliver King is a wealthy English
adventurer and detective out of Liverpool who travels to Singapore to bring back his long-lost boy
Roger. He must fight bad guys all along the way. |
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Rex King: see Black Fury III |
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Steve King: 1939, Amazing Mystery Funnies v2 #10 (Centaur). Adventurer and soldier of fortune Steve King was a steadfast enemy of the Chinese warlord and conquerer Wu Fang. |
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Reef Kinkaid: 1940, Amazing-Man Comics #12 (Centaur). Reef Kinkaid is a gentleman adventurer and soldier of fortune. When he hears of a lost expedition that discovered a "Lost World", he and Kobo (apparently a South American native) outfit a native safari to find the missing Doctor Lang and Lang's daughter Marian. He returns and has adventures all over the globe. |
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King of the Beasts: 1944, Yellowjacket #1 (Frank Communale). This hero is able to command animals to do his bidding. He works in the circus, little else seems known about him. |
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King of Darkness: 1941, Amazing-Man Comics #24 (Centaur). Bruce King
invents a device that emits fields of both black light and intense cold. Developing a suit that protects him from his own device, he uses it fight crime. He later also finds a way to negate gravity. Sgt. Burke knows his secret identity and brings cases and information his way. |
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Kayo Kirby: 1940, Fight Comics #1 (Fiction House). Red "Kayo" Kirby
is a prize firghter who gets involved in various intrigues that usually center around the boxing ring and sports |
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Kismet: 1944,
Bomber Comics #1 (Elliott Publishing). AKA Man of Fate, Kismet fights
the Nazis with the wisdom and fighting ability given to him by Allah
and his Prophet. |
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Knights of the Road:
1941, Amazing Man Comics #25 (Centaur). Repenting his misspent youth,
young millionaire John "Hobo" Harper gives the rest of
his inheritance to a worthy charity and becames a hobo aka a "knight
of the road". By strange instinct he finds fellow travelers who
are willing to join him as champions of justice. Traveling by rail,
they have adventures and right various wrongs. His fellow knights
included Baldy (a strong man), youth Billy Barton, and Tom "Crisco"
Yates. |
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Kon Fu: 1940,
Doc Savage Comics (Street and Smith). Dr. Kon Fu is a young Chinese
man in San Francisco's Chinatown where he uses his skills and knowledge
of his heritage to fight for his people against oppression and magic.
In a hidden cellar, he has a "Temple of Magic" devoted
to the Green Goddess who can come alive and give advice when Kon
Fu prays to her. |
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Koroo: 1940,
Cyclone Comics #1 (Holyoke). "Koroo is a most unusual lion for instead of being tawny in color, he is black from his fierce bushy mane to his long tufted tail. Superstitious natives believe him to be an evil spirit, but to the other denizens of the jungle, Koroo is the monarch - king of all he surveys.." |
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Connie Kurridge: 1927, Connie (newspaper strip - Ledger Syndicate). Unlike Flyin' Jenny, Connie didn't start out as having interest in a life in aviation and adventure. But, in 1929, she put behind her flapper ways, donned flying togs and took to the air and never looked back. She was an extemely capable pilot that served her in good stead as her adventures ventured into the realms of fantastic and science fiction. |
