COMIC BOOK COMPULSIVE — Rocket #11
Here’s a real curiosity; from 1956 Rocket #11, a British boys weekly with a science fiction theme. Along with it’s headliner Captain Falcon (he went to spaceman school with Dan Dare but didn’t get his breaks) and the fiction stories and science fact type articles are reprints of the American comic strips Flash Gordon, Brick Bradford and…Johnny Hazard? You don’t have to sell me on Frank Robbins aviator strip, I just wrote a rave review for the ICv2 website, but it’s completely lacking in SF elements.
— Steve Bennett
John Storm is in fact the Dutch strip Piloot (“pilot”) Storm by artist Dick Sprenger. He produced this strip in the typical Dutch format of that period, with a block of text and three illustrations. This is the first time I have seen it adapted into a balloon strip.