King of the Royal Mounted
King of the Royal Mounted is about the Canadian horse mounted police force called Red Coats. They are the protagonists of adventures that oscillate between the western and detective genres. The character was born in 1935 as a Sunday page for the King Features Syndicate thanks to the texts of the famous western novel writer Zane Grey and the drawings of Allan Dean. The series was first published on February 17, 1935, in the Sunday supplements of the New York Journal-American. On March 2, 1936, the daily strips also appeared, again drawn by Dean, while the Sunday strip was passed to Charles Flanders, who replaced him in 1938. In March 1939 Jim Gary finally took over and continued the series (with screenplays by Gaylord DuBois and sometimes alternating with John Wade Hampton, Rodlow Willard and Bill Lignante) until it was suspended in February 1954. In 1942 the character inspired two films starring Allen Lane and directed by William Witney and John English.
In Italy the series has been published in various newspapers
under the name AUDAX since 1935; during the fascist period Sergeant King was
provisionally renamed Marshal Rossi.
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