Commando Cus was the main character in a series of amateur films parodying the movie serial hero Commando Cody

Commando Cody

Commando Cody was the hero in a 12-episode science-fiction serial made in 1952 by Republic Pictures entitled Radar Men from the Moon, which was followed up 1953 with the 12 episode Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe....

, made by Bob Gale

Bob Gale

Michael Robert "Bob" Gale is an American screenwriter who co-wrote the science fiction film Back to the Future with writing partner Robert Zemeckis, and the screenplays for the film's two sequels. Gale also co-produced all three films....

 before he began his professional film career, and the late Richard Rosenberg

Richard Rosenberg

Richard Rosenberg was an amateur filmmaker and science fiction & comic book fan in University City, Missouri who made films with Bob Gale prior to Gale's beginning his professional career...

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All shot on Super 8mm film with title cards and a separate, tape-recorded music track played in sychronization, they were:

• Radio Towers on the Moon (parody of Radar Men from the Moon
  Radar Men from the Moon
  Radar Men from the Moon is the first Commando Cody serial, in 12 chapters, starring newcomer George Wallace as Cody and Aline Towne as his sidekick Joan Gilbert, with serial veteran Roy Barcroft as the evil Retik, the Ruler of the Moon. The director was Fred C...
  
  , some portions were filmed on what is now I-170 before it was opened to traffic)

• Night of the Living Drazeehumps (the first one in which Rosenberg participated, portraying The Shadow
  The Shadow
  The Shadow is a collection of serialized dramas, originally in pulp magazines, then on 1930s radio and then in a wide variety of media, that follow the exploits of the title character, a crime-fighting vigilante in the pulps, which carried over to the airwaves as a "wealthy, young man about town"...
  
  )

• Commando Cus vs. Kung Fu Killers (1973) (made mostly by Rosenberg with Gale making a cameo appearance
  Cameo appearance
  A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...
  
  , shown at MidAmeriCon, the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention; Rosenberg also made a blooper reel)

• The 100% All-Beef Doom (not completed at the time of Rosenberg's death in 1992, although he had shown portions at local meetings of amateur film makers)

The slogan Rosenberg was going to use to promote the last film was based on his final monochrome

Monochrome

Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or shades of one color. A monochromatic object or image has colors in shades of limited colors or hues. Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale or black-and-white...

revision to the Commando Cus rocket suit: "Commando Cus, the ultimate hero: a black-and-white man in a color film."