Turn Loose Our Death Rays And Kill Them All!: The Complete Works Of Fletcher Hanks

Available from Fantagraphics when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

A gigantic compendium that collects the complete stories written and drawn by the 1940s outsider superhero artist Fletcher Hanks. Fletcher Hanks was arguably the first great comic book auteur: He wrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories — an unprecedented solo act in the 1940s comic book industry. Between 1939 and 1941 he created nearly 50 comics stories, all unified by a uniquely artistic vision — primitive, bizarre, and singularly idiosyncratic. Whether it’s the superhero St