28 – Steve Smash Robot

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster continue to lean heavy into the sci-fi angle for their comic strips.  In October 1936, New Comics #10 features Steve Carson, an FBI agent infiltrating a secret criminal organization and then heroically commandeering an out-of-control giant robot. I really love the art here by Joe Shuster, the use of the […]

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11 – Buck Rogers

On to May 1935.  One of the more popular strips reprinted in Famous Funnies comic books was Buck Rogers, a space opera character that lived in many forms of media (books, movie serials, television show).  Buck Rogers showed up in the first few years of the Famous Funnies comic book.

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