Number 1330: The big green cannibal monster-head

Finally collected into one high quality trade paperback, Basil Wolverton’s early Target Comics feature, “Spacehawk,”* is now available from Fantagraphics. Wolverton loved science fiction, rocket ships, weird worlds and weirder characters, and Spacehawk has all those.

Another space feature by Basil was “Space Patrol,” which appeared in Amazing Mystery Funnies. With its old-fashioned look Wolverton’s science fiction has a steam punk charm right out of the industrial age; rocket ships looking like riveted boilers, for instance.

This episode is from the last issue of Amazing Mystery Funnies #24 (1940).

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*Click this pic for a Spacehawk story.