| Issue | #[nn] |
| Published | June 2007 |
| Cover Price | 19.95 USD |
| Pages | 120 |
| Editing | Paul Karasik |
| Notes | "Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, Super Wizard of the inkwell. Fletcher Hanks worked for only a few years in the earliest days of the comic book industry (1939-1941). Because he worked in a gutter medium for second-rate publishers on third rate characters his work has been largely forgotten. But among aficionados he is legendary. Hanks drew in a variety of genres depicting science-fiction saviors, white women of the jungle, and he-man loggers. Cartoonist Paul Karasik (co-adapter of Paul Auster's City of Glass and co-author of The Ride Together, a Memoir of Autism in the Family) has spent years tracking down these obscure and hard to find stories buried in the back of long-forgotten comic book titles. Karasik has also uncovered a dark secret: why Hanks disappeared from the comics scene. This book collects 15 of his best stories in one volume followed by an Afterword which solves the mystery of "Whatever Happened to Fletcher Hanks," the mysterious cartoonist who created a hailstorm of tales of brutal retribution... and then mysteriously vanished." [from publisher's solicitation] |
| Characters | Stardust |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks |
| Notes | "Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, Super Wizard of the inkwell. Fletcher Hanks worked for only a few years in the earliest days of the comic book industry (1939-1941). Because he worked in a gutter medium for second-rate publishers on third rate characters his work has been largely forgotten. But among aficionados he is legendary. Hanks drew in a variety of genres depicting science-fiction saviors, white women of the jungle, and he-man loggers. Cartoonist Paul Karasik (co-adapter of Paul Auster's City of Glass and co-author of The Ride Together, a Memoir of Autism in the Family) has spent years tracking down these obscure and hard to find stories buried in the back of long-forgotten comic book titles. Karasik has also uncovered a dark secret: why Hanks disappeared from the comics scene. This book collects 15 of his best stories in one volume followed by an Afterword which solves the mystery of "Whatever Happened to Fletcher Hanks," the mysterious cartoonist who created a hailstorm of tales of brutal retribution... and then mysteriously vanished." [from publisher's solicitation] |
| Reprinted | from Fantastic Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #13. |
| Characters | Stardust |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks |
| Reprinted | from Big 3 (Fox, 1940 series) #2 |
| Letters | typeset |
| Letters | typeset |
| Script | Paul Karasik? |
| Pencils | Paul Karasik? (photograph) |
| Inks | Paul Karasik? (photograph) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Stardust |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Reprinted | from Fantastic Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #1. |
| Characters | Fantomah |
| Genre | jungle; occult |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] |
| Reprinted | from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #15. |
| Characters | Stardust |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Reprinted | from Fantastic Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #11. |
| Characters | Fantomah |
| Genre | jungle; occult |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] |
| Reprinted | from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #10. |
| Characters | Stardust |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Reprinted | from Fantastic Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #13. |
| Characters | Big Red McLane |
| Genre | adventure |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks |
| Reprinted | from Fight Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #2. |
| Characters | Stardust |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Reprinted | from Fantastic Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #7. |
| Characters | Fantomah |
| Genre | jungle; occult |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] |
| Reprinted | from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #9. |
| Characters | Stardust |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Reprinted | from Fantastic Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #16. |
| Characters | Buzz Crandall; Sandra Hale; Lepus-the-Fiend (death) |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks [as Bob Jordan] |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks [as Bob Jordan] |
| Reprinted | from Planet Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #7. |
| Characters | Stardust |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Reprinted | from Fantastic Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #3. |
| Characters | Fantomah |
| Genre | jungle; occult |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] |
| Reprinted | from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #3. |
| Characters | Stardust |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Reprinted | from Big 3 (Fox, 1940 series) #2 |
| Characters | Fantomah |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] |
| Reprinted | from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #7. |
| Characters | Stardust |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks (signed) |
| Reprinted | from Fantastic Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #5. |
| Characters | Stardust |
| Synopsis | Cartoonist/editor Karasik tracks down the son of Golden Age artist Fletcher Hanks. |
| Genre | fact; biography |
| Script | Paul Karasik |
| Pencils | Paul Karasik |
| Inks | Paul Karasik |
| Colors | Paul Karasik? |
| Letters | Paul Karasik? |
| Reprinted | from ? [panels from various Stardust stories reprinted in this volume] |
| Characters | Fantomah |
| Genre | jungle; occult |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks |
| Reprinted | from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #10. |
| Characters | Fantomah |
| Genre | jungle; occult |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks |
| Reprinted | from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #10. |