#fantomah

[roguecentaur]

You are something ancient.Something terrifying and unknowable. You are rage itself.

You are Fantomah, Mystery Woman of the Jungle.

My newest SoloRPG has dropped today! Play as a vengeful goddess of impossible strength, as she struggles to restrain herself from destroying the world.

Can a god be so mighty and unstoppable that they cannot stop even themselves? Is it possible to overcome instinct? Are we more than our ugliest moments? It seems inevitable that you will only grow colder. Change feels like an impossible task. Maybe it is already too late for you. But you must try, all the same.

[lumber]

(Originally posted Jan. 14th, 2022)

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"You shall DOT by your own evil creation!" With apologies to #FletcherHanks, #AlfredHarvey, #VicHerman, and #WarrenKremer. ♥️♥️♥️ #LittleDot #HarveyComics #Comics #Comix #ReadMoreComics #HarveyComicsClassics #DarkHorseComics #FantagraphicsBooks #Fantomah #YouShallDieByYourOwnEvilCreation #BarclayFlagg #CartoonistKayfabe #JeauxJanovsky #JeauxJ #JeauxJanovskyArt #RetroAesthetic #DorothyPolka #LittleDotPolka #DotPolka #PolkaDot #DotLand #HarveyGirls #HarveyGirlsForever #HarveyStreetKids #IAmFuriousYellow #PaulKarasik @karasikkomiks

[chernobog13]

It really didn't pay to be a bad guy in Fletcher Hanks' comic book stories.

[stonedrunkwizard]

Fantomah!

[gootie]

Obscure Super-Heroes for Drink N Draw with Comic Jam Hawaii tonight. I drew Fantomah and 3-D Man!

[marvelousmop]

It's story that made me start the blog in the first place - "The Man in Grey's Christmas Carol", a retelling of the Dickens classic with no clever twists-

Wait, why is there a lizard? Did @aristidetwain put it there last year? Why?

[cgbcomics]

[a-large-pillar-of-salt]

more studies

[kappatater]

[skookworks]

02.23.2024

[stardust-super-wizard]

Stardust the Super Wizard by CrazyMobius

[roguecentaur]

First ever good blazed tumblr post, blew my mind to see accomplished fantomah art on here, and then it’s part of a whole-ass solo Fletcher Hanks tribute rpg you’re advertising…… 💀 you found your target audience, good job

Thanks! Fantomah's always been a character that's close to my heart. She's a wild, fabulous, problematic mess! Shortly after college, she was the first tattoo I ever got for myself, and I've featured her in a comic book starring a whole cast of up-cycled public domain heroes and villains.

My goal with this RPG is to celebrate and reflect on everything wonderful and wretched about this extremely strange character, introduce her to a new crowd of unsuspecting folk, and hopefully inspire people to make more creative endeavors with this character!

[anderjak-creations]

"warmup doodle," i say, spending way too long on it

fantomah grue gettin' her almonds activated

[chernobog13]

I'm pretty sure Fantomah says this to the person who cuts my check at work, too.

[lumber]

A little Fletcher Hanks mash-up goodness for your eyeballs this fine Tuesday. Swipe thru to view all pics! 👀 #BabyHuey #LittleDot #HarveyComics #HarveyClassics #HarveyGirls #JeauxJanovsky #JeauxJ #JeauxJanovskyArt #FletcherHanks #Fantomah #StarDust #TheSuperWizard #TheSuperWizardStarDust

[frankendykes-monster]

do you have any opinions on fletcher hanks's work

Hanks is interesting to me mostly as a historical curiosity; he got in and out of comics in two years during the initial Golden Age boom and was a rare early "auteur" wherein he wrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all his work but I'm not really sure I wholly buy his being singled out as "the" Golden Age weirdie when so much Golden Age shit is full of oddball characters trying to fit into genres and mediums that are still in their infancy. For context Super Weird Heroes has Fantomah, and vol. 2 has Stardust the Super-Wizard, two Hanks characters amongst dozens more that are just as strange.

Admittedly the "weirdness" of a lot of Golden Age material is the appeal. It isn't until you hit the late 1950's in American comics that you consistently run up against the intersection of "historically significant" and "actually readable". But even then, stuff like anything that went down in Legion of Super-Heroes, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, Doom Patrol, or Metal Men is still governed by a sense of rules albeit "seeing what the Comics Code Authority finds acceptable".

Hanks' work is middling at times (by modern standards, see the actually readable comment from the previous paragraph) but consistently just defies any sense of "logic" you'd approach science fiction and fantasy from:

Admittedly I can see why Stardust is the most popular thing he's done, just take the powers and vigilante justice introduced by Superman and take them to their extremes:

But personally I like Fantomah a hell of a lot more. It's funny that characters introduced in this time period oftentimes didn't have the "luxury" of an origin story so you're forced to figure it out on your own, with Fantomah being a (white...?) woman who's also a ghost (?) that protects the jungle and turns into an outright ghoul when wrongs need to be righted. She's the right mixture of inanity to me that tickles me, which Hanks only rarely does for my taste.