Monday, June 29, 2026

Code: Red in: "The Benefactor!"


For the third appearance of Code: Red, I thought that it was time to reveal just who was behind the formation of this team.  Who better than the most famous redhead in comic strips? I'm glad she's using some of that Warbucks fortune for good.

9 comments:

Carycomic said...

LOL! Most people might call Brenda Starr the most famous redhead in comic strips. But, Annie is certainly the original ginger-haired heroine! And I agree with you about her using her adoptive father's fortune humanitarians reasons. I remember that DC mini-series where the Shadow discovered that Shiwan Khan was being financially backed by a man who bore an uncanny resemblance to...Big Daddy Warbucks!

You could say the Shadow kept shooting till he no longer saw the whites of the man's eyes.

Anonymous said...

Jimmy Olsen might be the most famous redhead in comics

Anonymous said...

Although maybe the group has only females.

Aussie comics reader said...

Ginger Meggs is also a famous comic strip redhead and he not only predated both Annie and Brenda but outlasted them both!

Carycomic said...

That's why Ross specified comic _strips_. Historically, the comic book started out as just comic strip reprints in magazine form.

Anonymous said...

Never heard of him till literally this second. So, evidently, not THAT famous.

Aussie comics fan said...

In Australia he is one of the best known comic strip characters. At least he war until the newspapers killed the comics pages. But being published for over a century is pretty good.

Carycomic said...

@ACT: I read about the Australian comic book publishing industry over at Loki of Midgaard's website "The International Catalog of Superheroes." Fascinating history! Especially with the Golden Age Catman. Do you happen to know, offhand, if the World War II-induced shortage of Batman & Robin imports resorted in a similar autonomous spin-off based on the Australian coat-of-arms? I only ask because, with all the morale-boosting patriotic heroes that were so pervasive in American comic books back then, it only makes sense that Australia might have a patriotic duo called Kangaroo and Emu during the 1940's

Ken Roskos said...

Leapin' Lizards! There's Annie!

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