At the dawn of the American comic book industry comic book packagers were starving
for content. Anyone who could hold a pencil could get a job making comics. One of the
strangest and darknest voices in this era was Fletcher Hanks.
He worked for a variety of publications, including "Fantastic Comics", "Fight Comics",
"Jungle Comics" and many many more, creating such characters as Stardust the Super-Wizard
and Fantomah. Soon, these publications fell into obscurity and were long forgotten.
In the early days of the twenty-first century his work was rediscovered, appreciated more
for his strange sense of storytelling and anatomy than his storytelling ability. And the
companies he'd worked for could not care less about copyright, so pretty much his entire
backlist is in the public domain.
Since then these comics have been widely republished, both all over the internet and in
various print publications, including "I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets" and
"You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation", edited by Paul Karasik and published by
Fantagraphics.
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They are the Super Wizards, an army of the most powerful cosmic beings in the universe,
and they've got it in for the Earth. Stardust, however, won't let them destroy his
adopted home. Faced with no other options Stardust must peer across the gulf of time
and build a legion of versions of himself from all across comic book history.
Join Stardust on his sojourn across continuity on from the Golden Age all the way
to today.
Attack of the Super Wizards is a completed webcomic by Joey Peters.
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Superhero. Billionaire industrialist. Lumberjack. Big Red McLane really is everything
to all people.
Pacific City erupts into violence as Red's greatest villains suddenly return; Liver Eatin'
Johnson, Johnny Murderseed, and of course Paul Bunyan.
World's Greatest Lumberjack is a webcomic by Joey Peters.
Full color new pages are released every Friday.
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A writer, cartoonist and beauty contest champion from Boston. His work has appeared in
"Leftovers of the Living Dead", "Inbound: Comics from Boston" and all across the internet.
You can reach Joey by email at joe@tacolicious.net
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Fletcher Hanks' original comics have fallen into the public domain. What that means is that
nobody owns the rights to the original comics. Since then several publishers have republished
these original comics.
Likewise, several publishers have created stories inspired by Fletcher Hanks and his creations.
Just because those stories are based on public domain creations does not mean that they too are
public domain.
Even the Fantagraphics collections, each containing only public domain stories, is not in the
public domain because of the restoration work done, which created a new set of works out of the
old works.
That said, I'm a solid kopylefty. I will not stop anybody from using my versions of Stardust,
Big Red McLane, Fantomah, or even my semi-original creations (Rosemary Redgrave, Lumberjill)
or my outright original creations (The Fantomettes, Max Mustache). All I ask is that you shoot
me an email.
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