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CREATOR - STORY

Name: John Allen Saunders.
Personal dates: Born 1899 in Indiana, USA. Died in 1986 in Ohio, USA.
Other creations: Dateline: Danger!, Kerry Drake.
Successors: None.
Comments:

CREATOR - GRAPHICS

Name: Elmer Woggon.
Personal dates: Born 1898 in Ohio, USA. Died 1978 in Florida, USA.
Other creations: None.
Successors: Don Dean, Pete Hoffman, William Overgard, Bill Woggon (brother).
Comments: The main character was first published in 1940 in Woggon's The Great Gusto, and it was only in 1947 he eventually received his own title.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1936. Stopped in 2004.

The stories focus on a dashing and intelligent photo journalist who, slowly as the series continues, rises to better jobs ending as a publisher. On the way Roper solves multiple crimes using his cameras as well as his fists.