Hayfoot Henry

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caption=Hayfoot Henry, from "Action Comics" #99 (1946)
comic_color=background:#8080ff
character_name=Hayfoot Henry
real_name= unknown
publisher=DC Comics
debut="All Funny Comics" #1
creators=Alvin Schwartz (writer), Stan Kaye (artist)
alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0
alliances= Sleepyside police department
aliases=
powers= Always speaks in rhyme|

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.

Fictional character biography

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.

External links

* [http://www.toonopedia.com/hayfoot.htm Toonopedia entry]