Dr. Frank Mulroy was an American Scientist in the 1976 Daily Express comic Hot-Shot by Jim Lawrence with art by Yaroslav Horak.
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Mulroy was an Optic-Physics expert from the United States, and worked in a position with an American defence agency before quitting to join a company owned by "Mr. Huliraya", the wealthiest businessman in India, who was secretly Dr. Julius No. He flew to Tangier, Morocco and disappeared from the public eye.
Mulroy began work on the "Hotshot", a solar laser weapon using his expertise in the study of light. By way of a "Parabolic Reflector" dish and a "Tele-Flector" to focus the sun's rays into a powerful solar beam capable of targeting and creating a beam of light up to 2500 degrees Fahrenheit. Mulroy, however, was more interested in his work and the money he received for it than the destruction it caused.
Dr. No then used Mulroy's weapon as a means of eliminating his prominent business rivals while pinning the blame of the apparent terrorist attacks on the Eblis terrorist group. During this time, Mulroy stood by and oversaw the operation of his laser with enthusiasm.
Over time, this brought MI-6 agent James Bond to investigate the tanker Shirkahn, on which the Hotshot was mounted. Despite their best efforts, this lead to Bond shooting their fuel tanks and blowing up the ship.