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I say it with absolutely zero hyperbole that Turn Loose Our Death Rays and Kill Them All provided me with a shot of the purest joy I've gotten from comics in the last few years.-- ""We The Hallowed"" Want to suspend disbelief while reading Hanks? Wear a truss. But you'll take much more pleasure in reading this if you ignore the disbelief and truss. For everybody who grew up watching '50s-era low-budget SF and horror films on Saturday afternoon TV.-- ""The Book Beat"" The recovery from oblivion of these treasures is in itself a major work of art.--Kurt Vonnegut

The recovery from oblivion of these treasures is in itself a major work of art.--Kurt Vonnegut

This book thoughtfully archives a great deal of his work in the usual Fantagraphics quality, which opts for recapturing the original colors rather than recoloring, giving you the most Golden Age experience possible.-- ""AIPT Comics"" Fletcher Hanks' work, thoroughly covered in this volume, brought me back to the days of wildly inventive drawing. The artistry Mr. Hanks brought to his work is extraordinary.--Michael Maslin I say it with absolutely zero hyperbole that Turn Loose Our Death Rays and Kill Them All provided me with a shot of the purest joy I've gotten from comics in the last few years.-- ""We The Hallowed"" Want to suspend disbelief while reading Hanks? Wear a truss. But you'll take much more pleasure in reading this if you ignore the disbelief and truss. For everybody who grew up watching '50s-era low-budget SF and horror films on Saturday afternoon TV.-- ""The Book Beat"" The recovery from oblivion of these treasures is in itself a major work of art.--Kurt Vonnegut Turn Loose Our Death Rays and Kill Them All! delves into another element that set Hanks apart from his peers. At a time when the comic production process was highly stratified, he made all his comics himself, writing, drawing, inking, and lettering them. He thus stands as one of comics' earliest auteurs.-- ""Hyperallergic""

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Fletcher Hanks (1889-1976) is an artist who, under various pseudonyms, wrote, drew, penciled, and inked his entire body of comics work from 1939-1941. Some consider his Fantomah character to be the first female superhero. He was an abusive alcoholic who was found frozen to death on a park bench. Paul Karasik is a cartoonist who appears in the New Yorker, the co-author (along with David Mazzucchelli) of the perennial graphic novel classic City of Glass, adapted from Paul Auster's novel, and the co-author (with Marc Newgarden) of the ultimate deconstruction of Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy, How to Read Nancy. He lives in Martha's Vineyard.

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