![]() ![]() Hanks’ work is awkward and amateurish, but also singular and mesmerising it's been compared to the outsider art of Mr Henry Darger. ![]() My own favourites from this period are Fantomah and Stardust the Super Wizard, both created by Mr Fletcher Hanks, a cartoonist who had a little bit of a revival a few years ago after the indie comics publisher Fantagraphics brought out two collections of his work. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and Captain America all came out of what fans call the Golden Age of Comics, but so did Doctor Hormone, who fought crime with endocrine injections Nelvana of the Northern Lights, who was Canada’s first superhero and The Eye, who was just a giant floating eye. The late 1930s and early 1940s were a period of extraordinary fertility in the young field of superhero comics (fictionalised in Mr Michael Chabon's masterpiece The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay). ![]()
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