![]() ![]() Fantomah, mystery woman of the jungle, is “the most remarkable woman ever known”. Stardust the Super Wizard has a crime detector so finely tuned it can detect a single crime about to be committed on Earth. ![]() The answers to why packs of giant flaming disembodied hands are infesting the jungle will disappoint, yet there are so many bizarre offhand elements presented that most pages entertain. Plots are formulaic, dialogue expository, characterisation absent and yet despite all that, a unique personality escapes and the cascade of mad ideas render the stories fascinating in car crash fashion. The comics of the era demanded very little effort, and that’s what Hanks gave. There’s a temptation to consider this book a gigantic hoax: the king’s new clothes, with false clues planted across the web constructing an obscure cartoonist whose crude, yet spirited style represents a sort of ur comic artist.įletcher Hanks worked in the earliest days of American comics, already aged over fifty, with his last known work seeing print in 1941, after which little is publicly known about him other than what’s been uncovered by the curator of this collection Paul Karasik. ![]()
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