Now here’s a couple of adventures of The Fantom of the Fair (a.k.a. Fantoman, a.k.a. “Gravestone”) from Fantom of the Fair #1 that I’m happy to post. They’re drawn by Paul Gustavson, creator of The Human Bomb and The Jester for Quality Comics and show him in his early days when he was the exclusive superhero of the 1939 New York’s World Fair. This was back when when his costume was simple, but striking (the black and red color scheme really leaped off the page) and he had a full face mask that was so tight you could see his profile!

I mean, seriously, what was that thing made of? And, more importantly, how the heck could he breathe?

These stories are very basic melodramas and I’ll happily admit that a large part of his charm depends on not whether you love the 1939 New York’s World’ Fair (the fact that you do is pretty much a given if you’re reading this) but how much you love it. Me, I really, really love it and am always on the lookout for when it pops up in the popular culture of the time, which makes these stories all the more special. For me anyway.

And from the same issue here’s Air-Sub ‘DX’ by Carl Burgos (a.k.a. Max Finkelstein), creator of the original Human Toch.