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One of Hillman’s debut comedian e-book titles, Rocket Comics featured Rocket Riley, a personality influenced by Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.
An area journey saga influenced by each Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, Rocket Riley was the quilt characteristic of Rocket Comics, half of the primary wave of comedian e-book titles launched by Hillman Periodicals. Both Rocket Comics and the writer’s science-fiction that includes Miracle Comics hit newsstands within the final week of 1939, sharing rack house with the similarly-themed comics like DC Comics’ All-American Comics #11 that includes Ultra-Man and Dell’s Popular Comics #48 that includes Martan the Marvel Man. Despite its apparent influences, Rocket Riley was a well-crafted characteristic with some attention-grabbing touches, and with its 1939 launch date qualifies as a comparatively early entry within the science fiction comics of the Golden Age. There’s a Rocket Comics #1 (Hillman Publications, 1940) CBCS FN- 5.5 Off-white to white pages up for public sale within the 2023 June 22 – 25 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction #7340 at Heritage Auctions.
While the creators of Rocket Riley are unknown, the author might have been Emile C. Schurmacher, who had created Sky Wizard for Miracle Comics at the moment. Certainly, Schurmacher’s technique in creating Sky Wizard, as he associated in Writer’s Digest in 1940 has a well-recognized ring:
Pick your self a hero, a Buck Rogers or a Superman. Put him in an unique surrounding on this world or one other. Get him right into a mortal battle with an arch villain. Work in a chase. Keep your love curiosity, if any at an absolute minimal. Do that and you have got an motion comedian sequence and your likelihood of promoting it relies upon upon the individuality of locale and exploits of your hero.
That’s a fairly shut description of what was begun in Rocket Comics. Rocket Riley, who’s engaged to Professor Sterling’s daughter Griselda, works as a rocket pilot for the Professor, who’s growing atomic-powered rocket ships. Their challenge is beneath risk from a villain named Von Strangle. During a tour of the rocket ship, Strangle and Yacco try and seize the vessel, however inadvertently launch it into house, the place it is pulled into the orbit of a distant planet.
A brief lived however memorable early entry into Golden Age comedian e-book science fiction, there is a Rocket Comics #1 (Hillman Publications, 1940) CBCS FN- 5.5 Off-white to white pages up for public sale within the 2023 June 22 – 25 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction #7340 at Heritage Auctions.
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