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52 – Skyrocket Steele

2019-01-23
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A panel from Skyrocket Steele in Amazing Mystery Funnies #2, August 1938
Skyrocket Steele in Amazing Mystery Funnies #2, August 1938

Bill Everett started in comic books with “Skyrocket” Steele, a Buck Rogers / Flash Gordon clone in Centaur Publications’ Amazing Mystery Comics Funnies #2 (August 1938). Everett would later go on to create Namor, the Sub-Mariner for Marvel / Timely Comics.

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  1. Carl Thiel says:
    2019-08-07 at 6:44 am

    One correction. The actual name of the comic in which “Skyrocket” Steele appeared was Amazing Mystery Funnies.

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  2. codedread says:
    2019-08-14 at 5:49 pm

    Thanks Carl – corrected!

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