Sky Rocket Comics #1 has a very Golden Age sounding title, a striking, albeit gruesome and racist cover and two features of interest.

The first, Alias The Dragon is about your basic entry level costumed crime fighter with a fire gun named The Dragon. Yes people, there actually was a Golden Age Dragon, something that even Eric Larson, the creator of The Savage Dragon didn’t know.

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He hasn’t said anything since I brought it to his attention but knowing Larson as I do (from, you know, reading every single issue of Savage Dragon) it’s probably only a matter of time until his Dragon and this Dragon meet.

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And the second, Doctor Vampire, a guy who went around killing vampires for a living who decided to name himself after the very thing he hates. I mean, seriously, he’s renamed himself “Vampire”, he answers to the name, “Vampire”. Anytime someone says “Vampire!” he doesn’t know if it’s in the sense of ”Um, I just spotted a vampire down by the pool house” or “Excuse me, Vampire, do you prefer, Manhattan or New England Clam Chowder?”

Wow; I literally could not make this up.