Space Hero Saturdays SPACEHAWK "Martian Election Mayhem"

If you think elections on Earth are hotly-contested...

...wait'll you see how things are handled on the red planet, Mars (which, strangely, is colored green!)

This action-packed tale of electoral mayhem from Novelty's Target Comics #9 (1940) was written, illustrated, and lettered by the one-and-only Basil Wolverton.

The sheer unfettered imagination of the man was astounding, creating vistas and aliens far beyond anything the technology of moviemaking at the time (except for animation) could match.

With the current fascination for high adventure and fantasy, SpaceHawk would be an ideal project for either theatrical or streaming video...and I'm surprised no one is doing it!

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Space Hero Saturdays SPACEHAWK "and the Vulture Men From the Void"

You'll note our hero is no longer "The SpaceHawk", just "SpaceHawk"...

...which is still more than enough to scare the poop out of most space-going evil-doers!

As I've been going through other Novelty Publications titles, I discovered that they did occasional ads like this for "brother" books...

...using story panels pretty much in the format of a movie preview trailer using film clips!

Interesting, eh?

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Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN ROCKET "Graveyard of the Rocketeers"

He's the one-shot hero whose name has been usurped by many others since...

...but this is the never-reprinted, original Captain Rocket!

Accept no substitutes or imitations!

The lead story of PL's Captain Rocket #1 (1951) tosses us right into the action with just a one-paragraph synopsis to introduce the character.
It's not bad, but nothing to rave about either.
Written and illustrated by Harry Harrison who left comics when the Dr Wertham-led "Seduction of the Innocent" mania almost destroyed the comics industry in the mid-1950s.
Harry became a sci-fi/fantasy writer and editor whose credits included the Stainless Steel Rat novels and the novel Make Room! Make Room! which was the basis for the movie Soylent Green!
Cap would appear in two more stories, but only one was a comic!
Curious as to how that could be?

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Space Hero Saturdays SPACEHAWK "Ghost Star" & "Black Horde"

Yes, we know it's a day late...

...but this post has an "April Fools Day" element to it!

Can you guess what it is?
Have you figured it out yet?
Here's the conclusion..

This two-part, never-reprinted feature from Novelty's Target Comics V1N7 and V1N8 (1940) isn't a half-bad space-opera tale.
So what's the "April Fools" aspect, you ask?
It's not written or illustrated by Basil Wolverton!

It's scripted by Bob Davis under the pen name "Stockbridge Winslow", and rendered by an artist with the initials "H R" aka Harry Ramsey!
Davis wrote a number of text features about Novelty Publication's ongoing characters besides SpaceHawk, including White Streak, Chameleon, Sub-Zero Man, and Dick Cole...despite never working on any of the actual strips!
Since Wolverton had nothing to do with this two-parter, none of the numerous SpaceHawk reprint comics, trade paperbacks or hardcovers have ever re-published these tales!
Unless you have the actual original comics in some form, you readers are the first to see them in almost 83 years!
No need to thanks us!

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Reading Room FANTASTIC WORLDS "Cosmic Terror"

Some say space opera is just a Western with ray guns instead of six-shooters...

...but this never-reprinted tale from Standard's Fantastic Worlds #6 (1952) is a Cold War tale with aliens instead of Communists!

Though the scripter is unknown, the artwork is by Art Saaf, who had a long career in comics from the mid-1940s to the mid 1970s, doing everything from romance to horror to sci-fi to superheroes!

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Space Hero Saturdays THE SPACEHAWK "Perilous Portable Planetoid Peril"

The opening caption of the story promises something that a reader who just bought the comic off the newsstand in 1940 already knew!

How?
You'll find out at the end of the tale...

Note: SpaceHawk had rescued this unnamed woman in his premiere appearance...as shown HERE!

But don't worry that she'll become a "Lois Lane" type, always getting into danger and requiring rescue...since she'll never be seen again!
BTW, the reason a 1940s reader knew about SpaceHawk's unmasking before reading the story was...

...he was unmasked on the cover!!!
(Ironically, the only Target Comics cover he ever appeared on!)

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