Bentley of Scotland Yard. Bentley, a hard-boiled detective of Scotland Yard, deals with cases that verge on the fantastic, with real or would-be monsters: werewolves, vampires, hunchbacked  murderers, voodoo houngan, ghosts, giant spiders, the Whistling Doom, mummies, the Hound of the Devonshires, and so on. He appears in stories with titles like “The Case of the Roman God,” “The Case of the Flames of Purgatory,” and “The Case of the Crucified Policeman.”

First Appearance: Pep Comics #1 (Archie), Jan 1940. 41 appearances, 1940-1945. Created by Maurice Gutwirth and ?

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