The Flaming Carrot is a Surrealist crime fighting vigilante whose origin is just as warped as the stories which he appears.
Having been challenged to read 5,000 comics at one time on a bet, the unknown man suffered brain damage and immediately appeared afterwards as The Flaming Carrot.His battle cry is "Ut!"
The Flaming Carrot's costume consists of a giant carrot for a mask, with a perpetually burning flame atop the head. In the mask, The Flaming Carrot has been known to store a few items, most notably a nuclear powered pogo stick.
The Flaming Carrot usually wears a white shirt, red pants, and....flippers...on his feet. He wears the flippers in the event he has to swim.
He also employs a few other non-essential items which he somehow manages to make into weapons. He wears a utility belt, not unlike Batman. However, in the utility belt, he uses items such as sneezing powder, silly putty, cards, and a soap bubble pipe. He has also used plungers to assist him in climbing walls.
The Flaming Carrot is not above using firearms against villains.
The Flaming Carrot has encountered bizarre things, such as alien invasions, clones of Hitler's boots (which were self-ambulatory and tried to take over the world), and suffered amnesia. In one issue, the Flaming Carrot encountered burnt, flying dead dogs.
The Flaming Carrot often spouts sayings, one-liners and other quotations that are highly inappropriate during battle and during routine happenings.
Inexplicably, women seem to be attracted to him.
The Flaming Carrot helped found the group, The Mystery Men. Members include The Shoveler, Mr. Furious, and other low-rung heroes.
The Flaming Carrot has had crossover appearances with other comic book characters, most notably an obscure character named Herbie, but he also appeared with Raphael from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Flaming Carrot had suffered amnesia and decided to fight crime along with Raphael in a different crime-fighting identity.
The Flaming Carrot was created by Bob Burden and he has written and illustrated virtually all issues of the character.
The Flaming Carrot bounced around a few publishers from the mid-80's to early 90's, notably Aardvark-Vanaheim, Renegade Press and Dark Horse Comics.
The Flaming Carrot didn't appear for a number of years, but Image Comics has since published a few issues since 2005.
