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Terry O'Brien:
1940, Fight Comics #1 (Fiction). Gang smasher policeman. In his
first adventure he goes after an insurance ie protection racket.
But, there's some other mystery at work in the story, as a group
of six masked men seem to be a Secret 6 type of organization of
concerned citizens and seem to be somehow responsible with putting
O'Brien on the case. |
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Patty O'Day: 1939, Wonderworld #3 (Fox Features). Patty O'Day is one of those newsreel reporters who ends up making the news as much as reporting it. |
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Jerry O'Keefe: 1939, Keen Detective Funnies v2#11? (Centaur). State trooper Jerry O'Keefe runs afoul of a desperate gang of smugglers on a foggy night. This 2 issue adventure is apparently it. |
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King O'Leary: 1944, Red Band Comics (Enwil/Rural); 1945, Triple Threat Comics (Gerona). Crack city editor and reporter and Kitty Allen is his top-notch photographer for the Daily Sentinel. Presumably, the King O'Leary reported to be in Triple Threat is the same character. Might even be the same story. |
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Spark O'Leary: 1939, Keen Detective Funnies v2#10? (Centaur). Spark is a radio newshawk and a halfway decent detective. |
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Molly O'Moore: 1944, Terrific Comics #2 (Et-Es-Go/Holyoke). O'Moore teamed up with Scoop Scanlon to solve many crimes. |
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Bobby O'Neill:
1939, Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur). Robert O'Neill is a patrolman
on waterfront duty and his brother Micky is a newsreel cameraman.
Rita May is a friend whose sister was ruined by dope peddlers and
she killed them but is paroled in O'Neill's custody for turning
state's evidence against the head smuggler Captain Dutch Silver.
Done by Bill Everett. |
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Ted O'Neil: 1940, Prize Comics #1 (Prize). O'Neil is an American fighter
pilot and soldier of fortune who in the days before US involvement, joined the RAF to fight the Nazis |
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Oracle: 1943, Startling #20 (Better). Private Detective Bob Paxton receives
helpful visions whenever he sleeps or is knocked unconscious (which is disturbingly often the case). He's assisted by the pretty Lana Owens who addresses him by "Oracle" though he doesn't wear a mask or possess a secret identity. |
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Oran of the Jungle:
1940, Fight Comics #1 (Fiction). Lost in the African jungles as
a child, he grew up strong. So strong, that he attracted attention
from slavers and unscrupulous boxing promotors. He travels to America
to fight as a boxer and find his parents. Reunited with his father,
he travels back to the jungles where he continues adventures as
a boxing Tarzan. Eventually, the strip changed direction, the boxing
angle was mostly dropped, Oran started looking a bit more like a
youth, and his jungles were moved to another continent, Brazil was
mentioned at one point. |
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The Owl I: January 1940, Funny Pages #34 (Centaur). His day job was as a librarian with a passion for cleanliness named Jack and that's hinted at being an alias. His true passion is to help his dad get revenge for the loss of his legs due to some racketeers a decade earlier. To this end, his dad lives in seclusion in a shack in the swamps where he has inventeda winged flying suit and a portable radio that allows the two to communicate. Jack puts the suit to use to become the dreaded Owl. |
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The Owl II: 1940, Crackajack Funnies #25 (Dell). Nick Terry is a special
investigator for the police in Yorktown. He also fights crime as the hard hitting detective of the night, the Owl. His cape hooks to his arms and allows him to glide. His girlfriend is Belle Wayne, gossip columnist/reporter. Shortly after he tells her his secret identity, she fashions a similar costume to fight crime alongside him (#32). |
