Flatfoot Burns
 

Flatfoot Burns first appeared in Police Comics #19 (May 1943) and appeared in that monthly anthology comic book series semi-regularly until 1946. Uniquely, Flatfoot Burns made the leap from monthly comics to a syndicated strip in Will Eisner's Spirit comic section, which was published in newspapers.

This character is in the following 123 stories which have been indexed by this website:
Candy #1 (Autumn 1947): "Lamp Sale" (lead character)
Police Comics

Police Comics #19 (May 1943): "Flatfoot Burns Is Heading This Way" (lead character)
Police Comics #20 (July 1943): "Flatfoot's Substitute"
Police Comics #21 (Aug. 1943): "Prof. Snap Gadget" (lead character)
Police Comics #22 (Sep. 1943): "Termite of Terror" (lead character)
Police Comics #23 (Oct. 1943): "The Sky Saboteurs" (lead character)
Police Comics #24 (Nov. 1943): "Blackout Burglary" (lead character)
Police Comics #25 (Dec. 1943): "The Victory Garden" (lead character)
Police Comics #26 (Jan. 1944): "The Framed Gorilla" (lead character)
Police Comics #27 (Feb. 1944): "The Crazy Calloway Murders" (lead character)
Police Comics #28 (Mar. 1944): "The Case of the Cluttered Clues" (lead character)
Police Comics #29 (Apr. 1944): "The Crime Crumpler" (lead character)
Police Comics #30 (May 1944): "Crooks Steal Vampire State Building" (lead character)
Police Comics #31 (June 1944): "Corney Cobb, Apprentice Detective" (lead character)
Police Comics #32 (July 1944): "The Crooks Convention" (lead character)
Police Comics #32 (July 1944): "Ah ain't heered fum Dewey in weeks!" (lead character)
Police Comics #33 (Aug. 1944): "Twin Trouble" (lead character)
Police Comics #34 (Sep. 1944): "The Blaggard Brothers' Animal Circus" (lead character)
Police Comics #35 (Oct. 1944): "Wanted: Klever Klaus" (lead character)
Police Comics #36 (Nov. 1944): "The Beauty Parlor Holdup" (lead character)
Police Comics #37 (Dec. 1944): "The Antoinette Heirloom" (lead character)
Police Comics #38 (Jan. 1945): "On the Air" (lead character)
Police Comics #39 (Feb. 1945): "Murder at Stacy's Department Store" (lead character)
Police Comics #40 (Mar. 1945): "The Stolen Electric Chair" (lead character)
Police Comics #41 (Apr. 1945): "Rollo the Hypnotist" (lead character)
Police Comics #42 (May 1945): "Lizzie Dizzie's Hat Shoppe" (lead character)
Police Comics #43 (June 1945): "Stage 3, Lowser Productions" (lead character)
Police Comics #44 (July 1945): "The Whale Tale" (lead character)
Police Comics #45 (Aug. 1945): "Vixen the Viper" (lead character)
Police Comics #46 (Sep. 1945): "Flatfoot Burns Washed Up" (lead character)
Police Comics #47 (Oct. 1945): "The Sun Vanishes" (lead character)
Police Comics #48 (Nov. 1945): "Prominent Detective Enters Society" (lead character)
Police Comics #49 (Dec. 1945): "The Baby Giant" (lead character)
Police Comics #50 (Jan. 1946): "Flatfoot the Fire Fighter" (lead character)
Police Comics #51 (Feb. 1946): "Water, Water Everywhere" (lead character)
Police Comics #52 (Mar. 1946): "Get Flatfoot Burns!" (lead character)
Police Comics #53 (Apr. 1946): "Sweet Sleep" (lead character)
Police Comics #54 (May 1946): "The Clothing Robberies" (lead character)
Police Comics #55 (June 1946): "The Great Circus Mystery" (lead character)
Police Comics #56 (July 1946): "Signs of Reform" (lead character)
Police Comics #57 (Aug. 1946): "The Egyptian Museum" (lead character)
Police Comics #58 (Sep. 1946): "The Monday Men Are Coming!" (lead character)
Police Comics #59 (Oct. 1946): "The Lighthouse" (lead character)
Police Comics #60 (Nov. 1946): "Rock Mail" (lead character)
Police Comics #61 (Dec. 1946): "The Skyanium Gas" (lead character)
Police Comics #62 (Jan. 1947): "(Gulp!) Take it easy, Rube!" (lead character)
Police Comics #63 (Feb. 1947): "Meets Bull Bim" (lead character)
Police Comics #64 (Mar. 1947): "Canines in Crime" (lead character)
Police Comics #65 (Apr. 1947): "Squawk?" (lead character)
Police Comics #66 (May 1947): "Flatfoot's Lecture Tour" (lead character)
Police Comics #67 (June 1947): "The Most Considerate Mr. Meek" (lead character)

The Spirit

The Spirit #265 (24 June 1945): "Flatfoot's Sure Cure for Meowing Cats" (lead character)
The Spirit #266 (1 July 1945): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #267 (8 July 1945): "Flatfoot Burns Speaks to the World" (lead character)
The Spirit #268 (15 July 1945): "Surrealist Art Exhibit" (lead character)
The Spirit #269 (22 July 1945): "Longitude 16 1/2 degrees. Tide Up, Chief!" (lead character)
The Spirit #270 (29 July 1945): "Crime-Solver No. 2: Burglar-Proofing Your Home" (lead character)
The Spirit #271 (5 Aug. 1945): "Ah! Business! Coming Sir--" (lead character)
The Spirit #272 (12 Aug. 1945): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #273 (19 Aug. 1945): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #274 (26 Aug. 1945): "Water Ration Book No. 1" (lead character)
The Spirit #275 (2 Sep. 1945): "This is it, Chief!" (lead character)
The Spirit #276 (9 Sep. 1945): "Sniff! Sniff!" (lead character)
The Spirit #277 (16 Sep. 1945): "Susie will take care of Flatfoot, Ladies!" (lead character)
The Spirit #278 (23 Sep. 1945): "Okay, Flatfoot!" (lead character)
The Spirit #279 (30 Sep. 1945): "Calling Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #280 (7 Oct. 1945): "Child Psychiatric Treatment Department" (lead character)
The Spirit #281 (14 Oct. 1945): "Flatfoot Burn's Crime Dictionary" (lead character)
The Spirit #282 (21 Oct. 1945): "From the Army Air Forces Experimental Department" (lead character)
The Spirit #283 (28 Oct. 1945): "Black Market Meat Chart" (lead character)
The Spirit #284 (4 Nov. 1945): "The Great Railroad Sabotage Mystery" (lead character)
The Spirit #285 (11 Nov. 1945): "Flatfoot Burns' Safety Automobile" (lead character)
The Spirit #286 (18 Nov. 1945): "Crime Photo Exhibit" (lead character)
The Spirit #287 (25 Nov. 1945): "They're at it again, Chief!" (lead character)
The Spirit #288 (2 Dec. 1945): "Danger Warning Open With Care" (lead character)
The Spirit #289 (9 Dec. 1945): "Flatfoot burns today will begin the search for Ten Million dollars" (lead character)
The Spirit #290 (16 Dec. 1945): "Wanted on Stage!" (lead character)
The Spirit #291 (23 Dec. 1945): "This is your big moment, Flatfoot!" (lead character)
The Spirit #292 (30 Dec. 1945): "Stick around, Chief!" (lead character)
The Spirit #293 (6 Jan. 1946): "Did you locate the place, Flatfoot?" (lead character)
The Spirit #294 (13 Jan. 1946): "Flatfoot Burns' City of the Future" (lead character)
The Spirit #295 (20 Jan. 1946): "Why this sudden interest in checkers, Flatfoot?" (lead character)
The Spirit #296 (27 Jan. 1946): "This is it Junior! The office of our favorite detective!" (lead character)
The Spirit #297 (3 Feb. 1946): "With transportation facilities as crowded as they are nowadays" (lead character)
The Spirit #298 (10 Feb. 1946): "Help, Flatfoot!" (lead character)
The Spirit #299 (17 Feb. 1946): "Flatfoot! Sob! My son is t-turning crook again!" (lead character)
The Spirit #300 (24 Feb. 1946): "Step right up suckers!" (lead character)
The Spirit #301 (3 Mar. 1946): "Hey It's five o'clock, we want to go home! Somebody stole our elevator" (lead character)
The Spirit #302 (10 Mar. 1946): "Sob! Honest Uncle! I don't want to be a crook when I grow up" (lead character)
The Spirit #303 (17 Mar. 1946): "There it is again, Flatfoot! Another awe inspiring rainbow" (lead character)
The Spirit #304 (24 Mar. 1946): "Scene: The corner of Third and Main Streets" (lead character)
The Spirit #305 (31 Mar. 1946): "Another unfortunate victim of the Gagster Gangster" (lead character)
The Spirit #306 (7 Apr. 1946): "Here will lie Flatboot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #307 (14 Apr. 1946): "Decide Mr. Burns! Which one of us is guilty?" (lead character)
The Spirit #308 (21 Apr. 1946): "It seems like a page right out of the history books, Flatfoot!" (lead character)
The Spirit #309 (28 Apr. 1946): "It's been going on for days now!" (lead character)
The Spirit #310 (5 May 1946): "What's going on here?" (lead character)
The Spirit #311 (12 May 1946): "You can't set up housekeeping here Big Chief Leaking Water" (lead character)
The Spirit #312 (19 May 1946): "When the Police Commissioner makes his tour of inspection" (lead character)
The Spirit #313 (26 May 1946): "Not A Crime In Sight!" (lead character)
The Spirit #314 (2 June 1946): "There I was Mr. Burns working at my typewriter" (lead character)
The Spirit #315 (9 June 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #316 (16 June 1946): "Follow me Chief, the the end of this telescope" (lead character)
The Spirit #317 (23 June 1946): "Are you sure he's the same fellow, Flatfoot?" (lead character)
The Spirit #318 (30 June 1946): "Grill Room" (lead character)
The Spirit #319 (7 July 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #320 (14 July 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #321 (21 July 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #322 (28 July 1946): "The Penny Arcade" (lead character)
The Spirit #323 (4 Aug. 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #324 (11 Aug. 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #325 (18 Aug. 1946): "I'm Pee Wee Tarns--" (lead character)
The Spirit #326 (25 Aug. 1946): "Can you see the last line, Eagle Eye?" (lead character)
The Spirit #327 (1 Sep. 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #328 (8 Sep. 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #329 (15 Sep. 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #330 (22 Sep. 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #331 (29 Sep. 1946): "Help Wanted" (lead character)
The Spirit #332 (6 Oct. 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #333 (13 Oct. 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #334 (20 Oct. 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #335 (27 Oct. 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)
The Spirit #336 (3 Nov. 1946): "Flatfoot Burns" (lead character)

Suggested links for further research about this character:
  - http://www.toonopedia.com/flatfoot.htm
  - http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2018/02/obscurity-of-day-flatfoot-burns-star.html
  - https://newspapercomicstripsblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/flatfoot-burns/
  - https://www.comics.org/issue/2886/

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