Commando Cus

Commando Cus was the main character in a series of amateur films parodying the movie serial hero Commando Cody, made by Bob Gale before he began his professional film career, and the late Richard Rosenberg.

All shot on Super 8mm film with title cards and a separate, tape-recorded music track played in sychronization, they were:

• Radio Towers on the Moon (parody of Radar Men from the Moon, some portions were filmed on what is now I-170 before it was opened to traffic)

• Night of the Living Drazeehumps (the first one in which Rosenberg participated, portraying The Shadow)

• Commando Cus vs. Kung Fu Killers (1973) (made mostly by Rosenberg with Gale making a cameo appearance, shown at MidAmeriCon, the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention; Rosenberg also made a blooper reel)

• The 100% All-Beef Doom (not completed at the time of Rosenberg's death in 1992, although he had shown portions at local meetings of amateur film makers)

The slogan Rosenberg was going to use to promote the last film was based on his final monochrome revision to the Commando Cus rocket suit: "Commando Cus, the ultimate hero: a black-and-white man in a color film."