(March 1997)
Dark Horse,
1997 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 16.95 USD; 23.95 CAD
- Pages
- 244
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dark Horse Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Dark Horse Comics [chess piece]
- ISBN
-
1-56971-238-7
- Barcode
- 9781569712382 51695
- Editing
- Suzanne Taylor (collection editor); John Weeks (original series editor)
- Color
- Color Cover; Black & White Interior
- Dimensions
- 6" x 9"
- Paper Stock
- Stiff Cover
- Binding
- Perfect Bound
[no title indexed]
illustration / 4 pages
Indexer Notes
Black and white close-up of a cratered moon, on inside front cover and first page. Repeated on last inside page and inside back page.
Basil Wolverton in Space
credits, title page / 3 pages
Indexer Notes
Title; credits; thumbnail art and background illustration.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 4 pages
- Script
- Monte Wolverton
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton [as Wolverton] (signed); ? (photos)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton [as Wolverton] (signed); ? (photos)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Then, apparently out of nowhere, comes the superhuman enemy of crime…
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Basil Wolverton (photos); Marco Morley
Indexer Notes
Wolverton biography; two comic strip tiers from Wolverton's "Marco of Mars", circa 1929; four photos of Wolverton.
The Creeping Death from Neptune
Spacehawk / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Spacehawk (Intro); Gorvak (Villain; Intro; Death; a Martian)
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#5 [5] (June 1940)
-
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / comic story / 11 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Suddenly the peacefulness of the place is broken...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Spacehawk; Grebo (villain; introduction; death); Rogg (villain; introduction; death); Borlo (introduction); Tuok; Draxions
- Synopsis
- Evil Mercurians Grebo and Rogg search for the lost tribe of Mercury, but Spacehawk prevents them from harming the peaceful tribe.
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#6 [6] (July 1940)
-
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In this episode the mysterious lone wolf of the void tangles with a tough enemy…
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Spacehawk; Zorg (first appearance; villain; death); Jark (first appearance; villain; death); A girl (first appearance)
- Synopsis
- Spacehawk unmasks to reveal his human face.
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#7 [7] (August 1940)
-
The Vulture Men from the Void
Spacehawk / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Vulture Men [Glak; Orad]; Chief Loodub; Moon People
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#8 [8] (September 1940)
-
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Election results are almost half in, Glork, and you're still ahead.
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Glork (Villain; Intro; Death; Martian); Robo (King of Mars; Intro)
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#9 [9] (October 1940)
-
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As Spacehawk cruises through space, his alert mind catches vibrations of evil…
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jubun (Villain, Introduction, Death; a Uranian); Captain Dakk (brain transplanted into a Uranian hornosaur); Spacehawk
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#10 [10] (November 1940)
-
The Scratches of Doom
Spacehawk / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton [as B W] (signed) (spot illustration)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton [as B W] (signed) (spot illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Spacehawk; Al Grayson; Gul Jopak; Tylod
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#10 [10] (November 1940)
-
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In a wild, forested region of the planet Saturn…
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Galar (introduction); Spacehawk
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#11 [11] (December 1940)
-
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On the planet Neptune, in the Kingdom of the Noobites, the ambitious captain of the guard broods…
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Spacehawk; Queen Haba (introduction); Smebar (villain, introduction, death)
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v1#12 [12] (January 1941)
-
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Letters
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On the planet Neptune, in the Kingdom of Noom, a shrewd old scientist…
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Droon (Villain; Intro); Jod (Villain; Intro; Death); Queen Haba (Guest Star)
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v2#1 [13] (March 1941)
-
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Spacehawk
Indexer Notes
Full-page interior panel enlargement used as filler.
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Letters
- Basil Wolverton
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- With hostile, greedy nations attempting to seize all the wealth of the earth...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Spacehawk; Koru; Haki
- Synopsis
- Japanese soldiers plan to bomb the United States from a fake asteroid until Spacehawk intervenes.
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v2#2 [14] (April 1941)
-
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Letters
- Basil Wolverton
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As Spacehawk cruises through the stratosphere above the Caribbean Sea…
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spacehawk; undersea tank captain
- Reprints
Biographically Basil
text article / 2 pages
- Script
- Bill Spicer
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (illustrations)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Reprints
- from Spacehawk (Dark Horse, 1989 series) #5 (January 1993)
-
Indexer Notes
Spicer writes about the change in direction for the Spacehawk stories during the Second World War.
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Letters
- Basil Wolverton
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A powerful rocket ship moves swiftly above the cloud masses over darkened Europe.
- Genre
- satire-parody; war
- Characters
- Spacehawk; Moosler; General Blootz; Captain von Hamblatt
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v2#4 [16] (June 1941)
-
Indexer Notes
Parody of Hitler.
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / illustration / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Full-page interior panel enlargement used as filler.
A Martian?!?!
illustration / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Enlarged illustration of a crowd of people so surprised that their hats pop straight up into the air.
[no title indexed]
Supersonic Sammy / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Letters
- Basil Wolverton
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My plan to create a race of super-brain people must not fail!
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; science fiction
- Characters
- Supersonic Sammy; Josef Stalin (unnamed)
- Reprints
- from Popular Jokes (Marvel, 1961 series) #33 (August 1969)
-
Indexer Notes
Supersonic Sammy is exiled from Mars and flies to Earth, where he accidentally brings Stalin to the United States.
Meteor Morgan
Meteor Morgan / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Meteor Morgan; Jolok; Mordak; Bailig
- Synopsis
- Meteor Morgan and Jolok fight Martian thieves who want to steal the mail on a rocket from Mars to Earth.
- Reprints
- from Basil Wolverton's Fantastic Fables (Dark Horse, 1993 series) #1 (October 1993)
-
Indexer Notes
"This circa 1939 Meteor Man episode was never continued so far as anyone knows, these six pages apparently being the only survivors of an unsold series. From the Glenn Bray collection."
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Letters
- Basil Wolverton
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- High in the stratosphere, hidden from the eyes of the Earth people…
- Genre
- adventure; science fiction
- Characters
- Spacehawk; Captain Woolf
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v2#5 [17] (July 1941)
-
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Letters
- Basil Wolverton
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Concealed in the stratosphere, the mysterious defender of America…
- Genre
- adventure; science fiction
- Characters
- Spacehawk; Vogel
- Synopsis
- Spacehawk foils Vogel's plan to bomb factories.
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v2#6 [18] (August 1941)
-
- Keywords
- anti-gravity units; robots; skiing
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Letters
- Basil Wolverton
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Spacehawk, mysterious defender of America, decides to make some changes...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Spacehawk; Dr. Gore; Daggor
- Reprints
- from Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v2#7 [19] (September 1941)
-
- Keywords
- paralozine; robots
[no title indexed]
Space Patrol / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- While cruising near the planet Venus...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Nick Nelson (Space Patrol member, introduction); Kodi (Nick's Martian assistant, introduction); Owen Kosterman (villain, space bandit, introduction, death); The Spider Men (villains, all die)
- Synopsis
- Nick Nelson and Kodi pursue "notorious space bandit" Owen Kosterman to the jungles of Venus, and encounter a couple of couple of cannibalistic spider men.
- Reprints
- from Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #v2#12 (December 1939)
-
- Keywords
- Venus
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
Full-page interior panel enlargement used as filler.
[no title indexed]
Space Patrol / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- After running down many outlaws in the Venusian region...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Nick Nelson; Kodi
- Reprints
- from Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #19 (April 1940)
-
[no title indexed]
Space Patrol / comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Calling all patrol ships near Jupiter's south pole!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Nick Nelson; Kodi; Chief Raxun
- Reprints
- from Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #21 (June 1940)
-
- Keywords
- Jupiter
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
Full-page interior panel enlargement used as filler.
Milt Archer
Milt Archer / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Letters
- Basil Wolverton
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Milt Archer; Professor Archer; Bruce Wiley
- Reprints
- from Basil Wolverton's Fantastic Fables (Dark Horse, 1993 series) #2 (December 1993)
-
Indexer Notes
"Unsold newspaper strip circa late 1930s." Sampling of six dailies. From the Glenn Bray collection.
[no title indexed]
Jumpin' Jupiter / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My super-sensitive magnetic ears detect emanations of discontent from some place out in space!
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Characters
- Jumpin' Jupiter; Royal High Oof
- Reprints
- from Weird Tales of the Future (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #4 (November 1952)
-
Rocket Rider and His Interplanetary Ferry
Rocket Rider / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Reprints
- from Basil Wolverton's Fantastic Fables (Dark Horse, 1993 series) #1 (October 1993)
-
Indexer Notes
First page only of a story "possibly planned for one of the numerous 1950s cartoon and photo girly mags." "..unknown to us if the story was ever finished or not."
[Ghost Floating in Spaceship]
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
Illustration shows space-suited pilot with mechanical claw for a hand at lower left, in a spaceship passing over a planet. Above him, a ghost-like figure in raggedy clothes hovers, aiming a pistol at the pilot.
Shock Shannon
Shock Shannon / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Letters
- Basil Wolverton
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Shock Shannon; Beth Hobart
- Reprints
- from Basil Wolverton's Fantastic Fables (Dark Horse, 1993 series) #2 (December 1993)
-
Indexer Notes
"Another unsuccessful try at selling a newspaper strip." Twelve dailies. "..produced around the late 1940s or early '50s." The first page is a blow up of an interior panel with introductory notes below it. The comic panels themselves comprise six pages in all.
[Pin-up]
illustration / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Pin-up of a typically bizarre Wolverton man with six heads on long necks emerging from his mouth.
Pin-up
illustration / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Pin-up of a typically bizarre Wolverton woman with large, bulgy eyes, long stringy hair and facial skin resembling raw kiwi fruit.
Spacehawks
Spacehawks / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Circus the Comic Riot (Globe Syndicate, 1938 series) #1 (June 1938), #2 (July 1938), #3 (August 1938)
-
Indexer Notes
This 12-page section starts with an uncredited introduction to the strip along with an enlargement of the art on one of the interior panels. Aside from the strips that were first printed in the short-lived 1938 "The Comic Riot", there are five pages of unpublished Spacehawks episodes.
Planet of Terror!
comic story / 6 pages
- Characters
- Greg; Biff Houston; Mokog [Leo Gorman]
- Reprints
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #7 (October 1951)
-
- Keywords
- Saturn
Basil Wolverton in Space
credits, title page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Title page for a nine-page section of the book which contains various Wolverton drawings of different origin. Title page has an illustration of a rocket ship ascending into space.
[Owen Kosterman from Space Patrol]
Space Patrol / illustration / 1 page
- Characters
- Owen Kosterman
Indexer Notes
Enlargement of the second-to-last panel of the first Space Patrol story in this book.
[A Wolverton Monster]
illustration / 1 page
- Reprints
- from Basil Wolverton's Planet of Terror (Dark Horse, 1987 series) #1 (October 1987)
-
Indexer Notes
A typical Wolverton monster.
[Basil Wolverton's Fantastic Fables]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 2 pages
- Reprints
- from Basil Wolverton's Fantastic Fables (Dark Horse, 1993 series) #1 (October 1993) [Black and white; no trade dress; wraparound cover.] which is reprinted
- from ?
-
[Caricatures]
Boris Karloff; Joseph Stalin / illustration / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Three caricatures, with descriptions: Boris Karloff (circa late 1940s); Joseph Stalin (from Life Magazine); Joseph Stalin (from Common Types of Barflize, 1952)
[Ethan Downing]
Ethan Downing / illustration / 0.67 page
Indexer Notes
"Two panels from 'Ethan Downing,' another of Wolverton's newspaper strip attempts, circa 1930."
[They Crawl By Night]
illustration / 0.33 page
- Reprints
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #15 (February 1953) [Reprint of single tier only.]
-
[Professor Pigpen]
Professor Pigpen / illustration / 0.5 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Professor Pigpen
Indexer Notes
Single panel reprint, circa 1940.
[Assorted Creatures]
illustration / 0.5 page
Indexer Notes
"A virtual rogues' gallery of assorted Wolverton creatures." Fifteen thumbnail drawings of Wolverton faces.
[Tribute Page]
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- ?; Monte Wolverton
- Pencils
- Monte Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Monte Wolverton (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Basil Wolverton (portrait); Spacehawk; Scoop Scuttle; Powerhouse Pepper
Indexer Notes
Tribute page drawn by Basil Wolverton's son, Monte Wolverton, published in 1978 as a limited edition print.
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
Basil Wolverton in Space
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3.
["Then, apparently out of nowhere, comes the superhuman enemy of crime…"]
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4.
The Creeping Death from Neptune
Spacehawk -
5.
["Suddenly the peacefulness of the place is broken..."]
Spacehawk -
6.
["In this episode the mysterious lone wolf of the void tangles with a tough enemy…"]
Spacehawk -
7.
The Vulture Men from the Void
Spacehawk -
8.
["Election results are almost half in, Glork, and you're still ahead."]
Spacehawk -
9.
["As Spacehawk cruises through space, his alert mind catches vibrations of evil…"]
Spacehawk -
10.
The Scratches of Doom
Spacehawk -
11.
["In a wild, forested region of the planet Saturn…"]
Spacehawk -
12.
["On the planet Neptune, in the Kingdom of the Noobites, the ambitious captain of the guard broods…"]
Spacehawk -
13.
["On the planet Neptune, in the Kingdom of Noom, a shrewd old scientist…"]
Spacehawk -
14.
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk -
15.
["With hostile, greedy nations attempting to seize all the wealth of the earth..."]
Spacehawk -
16.
["As Spacehawk cruises through the stratosphere above the Caribbean Sea…"]
Spacehawk -
17.
Biographically Basil
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18.
["A powerful rocket ship moves swiftly above the cloud masses over darkened Europe."]
Spacehawk -
19.
[no title indexed]
Spacehawk -
20.
A Martian?!?!
-
21.
["My plan to create a race of super-brain people must not fail!"]
Supersonic Sammy -
22.
Meteor Morgan
Meteor Morgan -
23.
["High in the stratosphere, hidden from the eyes of the Earth people…"]
Spacehawk -
24.
["Concealed in the stratosphere, the mysterious defender of America…"]
Spacehawk -
25.
["Spacehawk, mysterious defender of America, decides to make some changes..."]
Spacehawk -
26.
["While cruising near the planet Venus..."]
Space Patrol -
27.
[no title indexed]
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28.
["After running down many outlaws in the Venusian region..."]
Space Patrol -
29.
["Calling all patrol ships near Jupiter's south pole!"]
Space Patrol -
30.
[no title indexed]
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31.
Milt Archer
Milt Archer -
32.
["My super-sensitive magnetic ears detect emanations of discontent from some place out in space!"]
Jumpin' Jupiter -
33.
Rocket Rider and His Interplanetary Ferry
Rocket Rider -
34.
[Ghost Floating in Spaceship]
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35.
Shock Shannon
Shock Shannon -
36.
[Pin-up]
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37.
Pin-up
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38.
Spacehawks
Spacehawks -
39.
Planet of Terror!
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40.
Basil Wolverton in Space
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41.
[Owen Kosterman from Space Patrol]
Space Patrol -
42.
[A Wolverton Monster]
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43.
[Basil Wolverton's Fantastic Fables]
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44.
[Caricatures]
Boris Karloff; Joseph Stalin -
45.
[Ethan Downing]
Ethan Downing -
46.
[They Crawl By Night]
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47.
[Professor Pigpen]
Professor Pigpen -
48.
[Assorted Creatures]
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49.
[Tribute Page]
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50.
Basil Wolverton in Space
This issue was modified by
- Merlin Haas
- Mike Nielsen
- Douglas Sederberg
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
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