"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. At the
time, comic books were in their infancy. The rules governing their form
and content had not been established. In this Anything Goes era, Hanks
work stands out for its thrilling experimentation. At once both crude
and visionary, cold and hot as hell, Hanks work is hard to pigeon hole. One thing is for certain: the stuff is bent. Hanks drew in a variety of
genres depicting science-fiction saviors, white women of the jungle, and
he-man loggers. Whether he signed these various stories Henry Fletcher
or Hank Christy or Barclay Flagg there is no mistaking the unique
outsider style of Fletcher Hanks." Read the collection and see and true Golden Age comic pioneer in action!
Amazing stuff,
Brian
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