Cover artist: Frank R. Paul (1884-1963) Marvel Science Stories - May 1951
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Cover artist: Frank R. Paul (1884-1963) Marvel Science Stories - May 1951
SUPERWORLD COMICS (vol. 1) #1 (April, 1940). Cover by Frank Paul.
Published by Hugo Gernsback, the man who coined the term "science fiction" and gave the world the Amazing Stories pulp magazine, this is a real oddity. The stories are a mix of science fiction, cops-and-robbers, science heroes, (lame) comedy, kiddie tales, reprints the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, and - because this is a comic book - a superhero.
That superhero being HIP KNOX - SUPER HYPNOTIST!
How did such a magnificent being come to be? I'm glad you asked:
That's right: our hero is a google-eyed zombie who can hypnotize anyone and anything just by looking at them/it!
So of course, he must put on a costume (and what a costume it is!) and fight crime:
And it just gets sillier from here!
I wish I could say the art here by Jack Alderman is the worst in the book, but I'd be lying. There are other stories that seriously look and read like they were the product of a kindergartener, but I won't subject you to those.
Yet.
On the plus side, the events on the cover of Superworld Comics #1 actually do occur inside the book, which was not very often the case during the Golden Age.
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