Fantastic Comics

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Fantastic Comics was a comic book superhero anthology title published by Fox Feature Syndicate during the Golden Age of Comic Books. The title is notable for having introduced the characters Banshee, Black Fury (the third one, John Perry), Nagana, Queen of Evil, Samson, and Stardust the Super Wizard.

[edit] Publication history

The first issue is cover dated December 1939. It continued to run until issue #23 in November 1941.

Most of the characters appearing in Fantastic Comics eventually fell into the public domain. In 2008, as part of the Next Issue Project, Image Comics revived the title with a single issue, #24. This issue features the following characters:

Samson, written and illustrated by Erik Larsen
Flip Falcon, written by Joe Casey and illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz
Golden Knight, co-written and illustrated by Thomas Yates and Bryan Rutherford
Yank Wilson, written and illustrated by Andy Kuhn
Space Smith, written and illustrated by Tom Scioli
Captain Kidd, written and illustrated by Jim Rugg
Professor Fiend, written and illustrated by Fred Hembeck
Sub Saunders, written and illustrated by Ashley Wood
Stardust the Super Wizard, written by Joe Keatinge and illustrated by Mike Allred
a prose piece featuring Carlton Riggs by B. Clayton Moore with illustration by Jason Latour