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Author: Joe Maneely & Hank Chapman & Mike Sekowsky

Expanding Fantagraphics’ project to reprint Marvel Comics’ 1950s genre titles, this volume blasts off to space opera adventure.

In the vein of earlier comics-to-multimedia stars Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, Atlas Comics launched their own pulp hero in 1951, looking ahead to the futuristic year 2000. Across five issues of Space Squadron (and one of Space Worlds), headline talents including George Tuska, Werner Roth and Allen Bellman (with back-up features by Joe Maneely, Christopher Rule, George Klein and Vern Henkel) showed Captain Jet Dixon and his Space Squadron blasting into action, facing cosmic threats like “The Armada of Death,” “The Space Demons,” “Terror from the Deep,” “The Temptress of Jupiter,” and “The Midnight Horror.”

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