The Odd Man is a fictional comic book hero created by Steve Ditko.
[1] Clay Stoner is a private detective living in River City.
[2] "He came from nowhere, garbed in a confused costume that would make a carnival clown blush with embarassment [sic].
(from "The Odd Man" by Steve Ditko, published in Detective Comics #487).
The Odd Man was introduced in an eponymous story that had him pitted against the supposed reincarnation of the first Nile Queen and her Pharaoh consort: