Sadly by the early 1950′s America love affair with the freelance airplane driver (i.e. pilot) as fictional hero was pretty much at it’s end, though the trope still had a couple of last gasps left in it. Like Johnny Law, Sky Ranger a oddball amalgamation of Steve Canyon and Dick Tracy

F0r four issues in 1955 the series followed the adventures of dashing Johnny Law and comedy relief fat sidekick Stubby Short, flying police detectives of the “areo-police”. Our hero Johnny was your standard cipher stand-in for the reader but Stubby was actually kind of interesting. For one thing he was a married man with a kid which was pretty usual for any character in a 50′s comic, let alone the fat sidekick.

The Johnny Law stories were drawn by Canadian artist who created the character Rex Baxter who appeared in Dime Comics, a two-fisted adventurer strip with fantasy elements.

In 1944 Good came to America where he took over Scorchy Smith and was on a assistant on strips like Bruce Gentry and Dixie Dugan. He was also the first artist on Tomahawk for DC.

Interestingly enough Good was also the artist, and perhaps sole creator of the single issue of the strangely similar Sky Sheriff that had a hero named Breeze Lawson. The Grand Exalted Comic Book Database says that it’s characters were “very much like TV’s Sky King“, a radio then TV series about a flying rancher who fought crime during his free time. I have never seen either, the comic or the TV show, so I’m pretty much taking the GCBD at it’s word.

Prolific Golden Age artist Carl Hubbell did the art for “Buzzy Bean and the Flying Saucer” about an All-American boy (and his dumb ol’ sister) who find an abandoned flying saucer. I don’t want to second guess the publisher Good Comics, the people who gave us Rusty the Boy Detective, but it sure seems like they buried their lead feature to me.