Red Bee (comics)
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The Red Bee is a fictional superhero from the Golden Age of Comics who first appeared in Hit Comics #1, published in July of 1940 by Quality Comics. The character was later obtained by DC Comics.
[edit] Richard Raleigh
The Red Bee's secret identity is Rick Raleigh, assistant district attorney in Superior City, Ore.[1] His superhero modus operandi is to put on a red and pink costume and, with his trained bees and "stinger gun," fight Nazis and gangsters. His favorite bee was named Michael and lived inside his belt buckle for use in special circumstances; the feature's writer was presumably unaware that male bees do not sting at all.
The character never became very popular, and was largely forgotten until he reappeared in DC Comics' All-Star Squadron, where it was retconned that he had been killed by the Nazi supervillain Baron Blitzkrieg. He also appeared as a ghost in the pages of Starman.
Other post-Crisis appearances include a cameo in Animal Man in which the character resided in a canceled character's "limbo", and in Bizarro Comics, where he and his agent were attempting to improve his marketability. He is mentioned by Plastic Man as having been a friend and drinking buddy in an issue of JLA.
[edit] Jenna Raleigh
In the pages of Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #5, Rick's grandniece, Jenna, has taken up the mantle of the Red Bee. She uses a mechanized battle suit and two robotic bees that can fire electricity.
