i shall destroy all the civilized planets

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This book collects 15 of his best stories in one volume followed by an afterword (in a comic form) Which solves the mystery of Fletcher Hanks, the mysterious cartoonist who created a hailstorm of tales of brutal retribution. A big hat tip to Kenn Thomas for hipping me to Hanks. I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets collects Hanks singular work in a large format that rewards close inspection, and editor Karasik illustrates an enlightening afterword, recounting his. Karasik has also uncovered a dark secret: why Hanks disappeared from the comics scene. According to Paul Karasik, who edited I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets, Fletcher Hanks was found frozen to death on a New York park bench in 1970. I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets Fletcher Hanks Published by Fantagraphics(2007) ISBN 10: 1560978392ISBN 13: 9781560978398 NewPaperback Quantity: 1 Seller: Wizard Books (Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Paperback.

Hanks drew in a variety of genres depicting science-fiction saviors, white women of the jungle, and he-man loggers.Ĭartoonist Paul Karasik (co-adapter of Paul Auster's City of Glass and co-author of The Ride Together, a Memoir of Autism in the Family) has spent years tracking down these obscure and hard to find stories buried in the back of long-forgotten comic book titles. Because he worked in a gutter medium for second-rate publishers on third-rate characters his work has been largely forgotten.īut among aficionados he is legendary. Fletcher Hanks worked for only a few years in the earliest days of the comic book industry (1939-1941). Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, Super Wizard of the inkwell.

I shall destroy all the civilized planets