- Fantastic Comics
"Fantastic Comics" was a
comic book superhero anthology title published byFox Feature Syndicate during theGolden Age of Comic Books . The title is notable for having introduced the characters Banshee,Black Fury (the third one, John Perry),Nagana, Queen of Evil , Samson, andStardust the Super Wizard .Publication history
The first issue is
cover dated December 1939. It continued to run until issue #23 in November 1941.Most of the characters appearing in "Fantastic Comics" eventually fell into the
public domain . In 2008, as part of theNext Issue Project ,Image Comics revived the title with a single issue, #24. This issue features the following characters:
* Samson, written and illustrated byErik Larsen
*Flip Falcon , written byJoe Casey and illustrated byBill Sienkiewicz
*Golden Knight , co-written and illustrated byThomas Yates andBryan Rutherford
*Yank Wilson , written and illustrated byAndy Kuhn
*Space Smith , written and illustrated byTom Scioli
*Captain Kidd , written and illustrated byJim Rugg
*Professor Fiend , written and illustrated byFred Hembeck
*Sub Saunders , written and illustrated byAshley Wood
*Stardust the Super Wizard , written byJoe Keatinge and illustrated byMike Allred
* a prose piece featuringCarlton Riggs byB. Clayton Moore with illustration byJason Latour
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