Lance O'Casey

Lance O'Casey is a fictional character who had his own strip in Fawcett Comics' Whiz Comics. The stories were popular backup stories to the book's main attractions of Captain Marvel and Spy Smasher.

Character History

The stories featured the adventurous sailor O'Casey and a pet monkey, Mr. Hogan. Later on, O'Casey left his monkey and started travelling with a new first-mate named Mike Bellew. O'Casey and Bellew were down on their luck adventurers looking to transport cargo, search for the odd bit of treasure or help damsels in distress. So far O'Casey has made only one appearance in DC Comics, in the 1998 Captain Marvel comic book, The Power of Shazam!, portraying an aged, yet fiesty, sailor in issue #34.

Known Appearances

• Whiz Comics #2 (February 1940): "Lance O'Casey".
• Whiz Comics #3 (March 1940): "Lance O'Casey Battles Death Dawson"
• Whiz Comics #3a (April 1940): "Lance O'Casey and the Island of Knife Scarr"
• Whiz Comics #4 (May 1940): "Lance O'Casey and The Coming of Daniel Doom"
• Whiz Comics #5 (June 1940): "Sea Dogs: Lance O'Casey's Sea Lore"
• Whiz Comics #6 (July 1940): "Lance O'Casey and the Launch of the Brian Boru II"
• Whiz Comics #53 (April 1944): "Lance O'Casey and the Boy Beggar"
• Whiz Comics #136 (August 1951): Lance O'Casey in "The Sargasso Trap"
• Famous First Edition #F-4 (Originally published in Whiz Comics #2) DC Comics (November 1974): "Lance O'Casey"
• The Power of Shazam! #34 (January 1998): "With Friends Like These..."
• Millenium Edition: Whiz Comics 2 #1 (Originally published in Whiz Comics #2) (March 2000): "Lance O'Casey".