Fantastic Comics

Superhero

Publication dateDecember 1939 – November 1941No. of issues23Main character(s)Black Fury
Samson
Stardust the Super Wizard

Fantastic Comics was an American comic book superhero anthology title published by Fox Feature Syndicate during the Golden Age of Comic Books. The title introduced the characters Banshee, Black Fury (John Perry), Nagana, Queen of Evil, Samson, and Stardust the Super Wizard.

Publication history

The first issue is cover-dated December 1939. Fantastic Comics continued to run until issue #23 in November 1941.

Most of the characters appearing in Fantastic Comics eventually fell into the public domain. In 2008, as part of the Next Issue Project, Image Comics revived the title with a single issue, "#24". This issue features the following characters:

Samson, written and illustrated by Alex Boon
Flip Falcon
Golden Knight, co-written and illustrated by Thomas Yeates and Bryan Rutherford
Yank Wilson, written and illustrated by Andy Kuhn
Space Smith, written and illustrated by Tom Scioli
Captain Kidd, written and illustrated by Jim Rugg
Professor Fiend, written and illustrated by Fred Hembeck
Sub Saunders, written and illustrated by Ashley Wood
Stardust the Super Wizard, written by Joe Keatinge and illustrated by Mike Allred
A prose piece featuring Carlton Riggs by B. Clayton Moore with illustration by Jason Latour