Fletcher Hanks Jr., 1917/18-2008



Paul Karasik reports that Fletcher Hanks, Jr. died on March 16 in Easton, Maryland eight days after an automobile wreck put the 90-year-old in the hospital. The exact cause of death is unknown.

Hanks was the son of Fletcher Hanks, the obscure Golden Age cartoonist whose odd, beautiful and terrifying contributions to the early days of comic book have long been an item of interest to modern comics fans. This interest intensified in 2007 with the publication of Karasik's I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets, a stand-alone volume devoted to some of Hanks' work. Karasik dedicated the work to Hanks, Jr., and told some of the family's story and the harshness visited upon them by the largely absent and when-there unpleasant cartoonist in his comic "Whatever Happened to Fletcher Hanks?"

A veteran of World War II and a number of missions flying supplies into China who became active in groups and events commemorating those years, the younger Hanks penned a novel about his experiences, Saga of CNAC 53. He was also an inventor who appeared on What's My Line?

A pair of lovely pictures of an active-looking Hanks with the volume reprinting his father's work can be found here.
 
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