Fletcher Hanks has been called many things but I don't think "a good guy" has ever been one of them. He was an abusive father and husband and abandoned his wife and child, even stealing his son's piggy bank, and never was heard from again. He only wrote comic books from 1939-1941 and little else is ...
I think Robert Crumb says it best: "Fletcher Hanks was a twisted dude." This stuff is absolutely amazing. While Fletcher Hanks only did comics from 1939-1941 and wrote pretty standard super-hero type storylines, they are of such bizarro quality that I'm mesmerized by the sheer weirdness of it all. H...
An interesting collection of a forgotten artist. Hanks created comics in the early days of the medium, quitting around the beginning of WWII. The stories are fairly much the same--they mostly feature Stardust, a "super-wizard" of technology who lives in space and Fatomah, guardian of the jungle. Bot...
Christ this is strange stuff. Just two years after Superman was published we have Fletcher Hanks turning out gloriously twisted comics. Reading this seemed like looking at someone's outsider art. Like talking to a kid who's been sitting in the back of class all semester long but you've never noticed...
More incredible madness from Hanks. Some of the strangest things I've ever seen.
Deranged genius.
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