Meet a "space hero" who travels with a companion in a time machine which also moves through space!
No, not that one!
We're talking about the one who did it a generation before that one...
This never-reprinted short story from
King's The Phantom #28 (1967) was by Paul Norris, who was also doing the newspaper strip!
Premiering in 1933,
Brick Bradford started out as a high-adventure strip starring a daredevil aircraft pilot who encountered lost civilizations, dinosaurs and other fantastical situations.
In 1935, the strip's resident scientist,
Professor Southern, created the "Time Top" which could travel through time
and through space!
From then on, the strip was more or less a standard space opera with occasional journeys into the past and future.
Though it never achieved the level of popularity of
Flash Gordon or
Buck Rogers in the US, there were a couple of spin-offs including a series of
Big Little Books and a movie serial starring Kane Richmond, who had also played
Spy Smasher and
The Shadow on the silver screen!
Though it lost American newspapers from the 1950s onward, the strip remained popular in Europe, Asia and Australia, where it continued until the retirement of the strip's current writer-artist, Paul Norris, in 1987...
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