This blog has been going for a while now and we've still only made bare mention of the man many consider to be the Golden Age God Of ODD - Fletcher Hanks. As noted previously, it seemed too easy at launch and kept getting pushed back.
Or maybe i'm just being lazy, eh?
So, let's take a dive into 1939 and the dawn of comic books in the pages of Fantastic Comics and visit this guy -
Stardust, the Super Wizard, was anything but subtle. He was the essence of the Golden Age in many respects. Vaguely defined and unbounded by set rules or even logic.
Okay. I guess we're going to have to keep going and see "Rip-The-Blood" battling Stardust. (C rip-the-Blood?)
All right... One more. Just to make three...
Yes - unconscious people floating in space can breathe and not pop. Just go with it.
Stardust got stranger at times, and he wasn't alone. Fletcher Hanks created several rather deranged characters and we'll have to look at more of them, as well as coming back to Stardust.
But, don't worry. We won't be visiting any of the sad reboots from more recent times.
Or maybe i'm just being lazy, eh?
So, let's take a dive into 1939 and the dawn of comic books in the pages of Fantastic Comics and visit this guy -
Stardust, the Super Wizard, was anything but subtle. He was the essence of the Golden Age in many respects. Vaguely defined and unbounded by set rules or even logic.
Okay. I guess we're going to have to keep going and see "Rip-The-Blood" battling Stardust. (C rip-the-Blood?)
All right... One more. Just to make three...
Yes - unconscious people floating in space can breathe and not pop. Just go with it.
Stardust got stranger at times, and he wasn't alone. Fletcher Hanks created several rather deranged characters and we'll have to look at more of them, as well as coming back to Stardust.
But, don't worry. We won't be visiting any of the sad reboots from more recent times.
page art by Fletcher Hanks from Fantastic Comics #s 1, 2, & 7 (1939, 1940)
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