Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur. He wrote, pencilled, inked and lettered all of his own stories - completing an astonishing 48 stories in the three years between 1939 and 1941. As a one man cartoon band, his work packs the wallop of a unique and unified artistic vision. In the earliest days of the comic book, before censorship, Fletcher Hanks embodied the spirit of anything goes!'.'