Stardust the Super Wizard

Stardust Comes To Bikini Bottom In The 'SpongeBob' Annual
Stardust Comes To Bikini Bottom In The 'SpongeBob' Annual
Stardust Comes To Bikini Bottom In The 'SpongeBob' Annual
In putting together this summer's superhero-themed SpongeBob Comics Annual-Size Super-Giant Swimtacular #2, United Plankton Pictures dug deep and left-of-center for inspiration and riff material. How deep, and how left-of-center? Well, the book includes, "I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planktons!", a rather meticulously assembled homage to the work of Golden Age oddball artist Fletcher Hanks and his Stardust The Super-Wizard, by Paul Karasik and R. Sikoryak. That story follows a few featuring more traditional targets of parody, like a Western-themed story starring SpongeBob regular Mermaid Man, who is basically just Silver Age Aquaman with sea shells over his nipples and a starfish in the middle of his face, and another in which Squidward becomes Batman parody the Squishy Knight and SpongeBob becomes "Multi-Purpose Sponge, the hero with a different costume in every panel" (which allows for panel after panel of SpongeBob dressed as various Marvel and DC superheroes).
Fresh Monkey Fiction Releasing Stardust Action Figure & More
Fresh Monkey Fiction Releasing Stardust Action Figure & More
Fresh Monkey Fiction Releasing Stardust Action Figure & More
We've seen our fair share of statues honoring Fletcher Hanks' highly bizarre alien crimefighter Stardust The Super Wizard since the character entered the public domain some years ago, but Fresh Monkey Fiction will finally give the hero -- and five other pulp classics -- at least five points of 4.5" tall action figure articulation in 2015.
Fletcher Hanks 'Stardust' Gets An Action Figure
Fletcher Hanks 'Stardust' Gets An Action Figure
Fletcher Hanks 'Stardust' Gets An Action Figure
Until a few years ago I'd never heard of Fletcher Hanks. But ever since I came across I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets! and You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!, the Fantagraphics collections of the Golden Age cartoonists' work, I've been semi-obsessed. Hanks' most famous creation, Stardust The Super Wizard, is a twisted version of Nietzsche's Übermensch. His stories read like fever
The Golden Age Bakery Recreates An Entire ‘Stardust The Super Wizard’ Story On Delicious Cookies
The Golden Age Bakery Recreates An Entire ‘Stardust The Super Wizard’ Story On Delicious Cookies
The Golden Age Bakery Recreates An Entire ‘Stardust The Super Wizard’ Story On Delicious Cookies
A while back, I wrote about a Kickstarter for the Golden Age Bakery, a business in Chapel Hill built around making edible versions of classic Golden Age comics by printing them on cookies. I can think of no better cause. In that article, I mentioned that I'd really like to see a set of cookies featuring a story by the relatively obscure (and legitimately insane) Fletcher Hanks...