Weird we have two stories featuring both the planet Venus and evil women two days in a row, eh?
When
comic books featuring new material (they were initially comic strip
reprints) first appeared in the late 1930s, it was an "anything goes"
market as publishers would run whatever they could lay their hands on
from comic strip and pulp magazine professionals as well as talented (read
"cheap") amateurs.
Some, like Siegel & Shuster, Simon & Kirby, and Finger & Kane created what would become American icons.
Others. like Hanks, were like mayflies, briefly appearing...then disappearing, leaving little behind.
Even comics geeks had forgotten about Hanks' material, which sat un-reprinted for over half a century, until Fantagraphics produced a couple of books collecting his work from the various anthology titles it appeared in!
We're now running the entire Space Smith series every Monday, including Hanks' work and the later, more conventional tales by others (including a few surprise contributors).
Watch for them...
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