Fletcher Hanks

Fletcher Hanks was arguably the first great comic book auteur: He wrote, pencilled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories – an unprecedented solo act in the 1940s comic book industry. Between 1939 and 1941, he created nearly 50 comics stories, all unified by a uniquely artistic vision – primitive, bizarre, and singularly idiosyncratic. Whether it's the superhero Stardust...