Dan Richards (DC)

Dan Richards is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.

Biography

Quality

Dan Richards

Clancy sent Richards to investigate the murders in Hugh Blandings castle, anyone who staid in the blue room died by morning. Hugh’s daughter Alice’s fiancée Bob Drake spent a night in the blue room, and Richards changed into Manhunter an saved him from a spectral figure that drugged him an tried to kill him. The murderer was Alice, who was quite mad and suffered from paranoid delusions. (Police Comics v1 #21)

Manhunter investigated the death of socialite Martin L. Mirth. The prime suspect was ex-con Poker, and Poker told him he’d gone to jail because Martin’s expose his gambling racket because his gambling debts to Poker would have bankrupted him. Poker wanted to kill him, but found Mirth a changed man who donated to charity and set Poker up in his own business. Manhunter knew Mirth’ been spending time with a homeless man and visited him. The homeless man was actually Mirth, who’d switched places with his doppelganger Ben Bumb to hide from Poker. Manhunter learned that Mirth had killed Bumb when he refused to give up his social standing because he could use it to help people. Manhunter turned in Mirth, who was sentenced to death for the crime of murder, the murder of himself. (Police Comics v1 #27)

Notes

• The Dan Richards Manhunter was created by Tex Blaisdell and Alex Kotzky where he made his first appearance Police Comics v1 #8 (March, 1942).

Appearances

• Police Comics v1: (1942)

External Links

• DC Database Entry

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