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| Hayfoot Henry |
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Hayfoot Henry, from Action Comics #99 (1946)
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unknown |
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Sleepyside police department |
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Always speaks in rhyme |
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Hayfoot Henry was a DC Comics character of the 1940s who made his debut in All Funny Comics, then moved to Action Comics, where he had a feature story in issues #78 through #118, with one final appearance in issue #123. This was in a time when Action Comics was an anthology title with multiple feature strips. Henry's strip was intended as comic relief to balance the more serious-toned other features of the comic book, such as Superman.
Henry was a police officer in the village of Sleepyside who was attempting to write a rhyming dictionary; in each story, he needed to solve both a crime and a rhyme. He would have a word such as "orange" for which he was attempting to come up with a rhyme, at the same time that he was seeking clues to solve a mysterious crime, and the solutions to both of his problems would come along at once to resolve the storyline. Some of the rhyme solutions were rather questionable, however; for instance, "orange" ended up being rhymed with "sore binge".
The stories were done with all dialogue (whether by Henry himself or other characters) in rhyme.
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