Casey Crime Photographer was a radio program on CBS from 1943 to 1955...there was a television show for a short time, and then there were four issues of a comic book published by the 1949 version of Marvel Comics. Fascinated as I am by stories featuring simians, I chose the first story from the first issue. Reading the story’s intro on the splash panel I found this: “Orang-utans — known to science as simia satyrus.” Who says comic books aren’t educational? Someday I could haul that little factoid out to impress folks at a party. If I get invited to a party.
Casey was created by George Harmon Coxe, a mystery writer for many years, in an early '30s issue of
Black Mask, the widely respected pulp that taught the world what, besides eggs, “hard-boiled” means.
Art is credited by the Grand Comics Database to Vernon Henkel, an artist who worked in comic books from the very early days of the business.
