It is about an escapologist in Victorian London who appears to be simply an unusual act on the music hall stage, but who privately uses his extraordinary abilities to battle against injustice.
The Incredible Adventures of Janus Stark was reprinted and translated into French in his own title, published by Mon Journal, beginning in 1973.
There he befriended a beggar, Blind Largo, who taught him pickpocketing, but also trained Clarke's unique gift for body bending and escaping.
In this "new" two-page adventure, he is imprisoned, along with at least Spring-heeled Jack and Joseph Merrick (the Elephant Man), by an Inspector Bryant, simply for being thought by the Victorian government to be "dangerous individuals."
[5] On the Series K, episode 5 of QI, Alan Davies sparks a tangent discussion about a superhero he remembers from "Valiant Comics" called Janus, who he describes as an "escapologist who can get through tiny gaps".