Kerry Drake

Few characters can claim a Golden Age birth and a publishing life stretching nearly eight decades, but Kerry Drake is one of them — a detective who first stepped onto the comics page in Famous Funnies #104 in 1943, brought to life by J. Carroll Mansfield. Over the years he'd anchor his own showcase in Kerry Drake Detective Cases and become a fixture in The Menomonee Falls Gazette, rubbing shoulders in the same pages as icons like Superman, Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, and Robin. That kind of enduring company speaks to a character who found a lasting place in the collector's world, and with 78 years of publication history behind him, Kerry Drake is a Golden Age original well worth tracking down.