My brain has gone wandering back to one of our previous topics. Let's try not to scare it and maybe it will lead us somewhere interesting.
It seems to have taken an interest in Flint Baker. We saw Flint when our topic was Dick Briefer, who wrote and drew the first episode (and created the series? Unknown and likely unknowable) for Planet Comics #1. Briefer moved on after that, and so did we.
If you missed it, here was the first episode. After Briefer's departure, Herman Bolstein takes over the writing chores, and Arthur Peddy , whom you may recall from posts on Red Panther or Captain Thunder, is our new artist. Dick and his ginchy stylings may be gone from the strip, but we get four-armed martian ape, a brutal kill, and a very early use of pogo platforms -
A few issues later, things got interesting as they decided to take the series out of the Solar system and into unknown space ...
...but the very next issue they were back in-system, and working it sequentially. Mercury, then Venus, then Mars again. (Home doesn't count)
So far we've managed to not spook the wandering brain. Maybe if we don't disturb it, we can follow it further...
page art by Arthur Peddy for Planet Comics #s 2 & 5 (1940)
