Fletcher Hanks

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Fletcher Hanks ( December 1, 1887 , † February 1976 ) was an American comic artist who created adventure stories about heroes with supernatural powers in the fight against evil for a short time during the Golden Age in the 1940s. He also worked under the pseudonyms Henry Fletcher, Barclay Flagg, Bob Jordan, and Hank Christy.

Career

Hanks drew for Fiction House and Fox Feature Syndicate from 1939 to 1941 . The superheroes he created include Stardust the Super Wizard , Tabu the Wizard of the Jungle and Fantomah , one of the first female superheroes. Hank's narration was simple, the drawings angular. The mostly 8-page long stories show a similar structure: the villains plan and start a criminal act, the superhero can stop them and then punish them.

The comics were reprinted in RAW , in 2007 the collection I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets: The Fantastic Comics Of Fletcher Hanks, compiled by Paul Karasik , was published by Fantagraphics , which won the 2008 Eisner Award in the category “Best Archival Collection / Project - Comic Books “Was awarded. In 2009 the second volume, You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation! .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Strapazin No. 85.
  2. ↑ OX # 79, p. 77.

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personal data
SURNAME Hanks, Fletcher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henry Fletcher; Barclay Flagg; Bob Jordan; Hank Christy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1887
DATE OF DEATH February 1976