Number 2579: The short-lived Stuntman

The narrative I in actuality bear instructed just a few times over time is that Stuntman, a humorous book book from Harvey Comics, written and drawn by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, was canceled over a glut of humorous books after the battle. Simon and Kirby moved on to Hillman, after which Prize. The latter publisher was aptly named. Simon and Kirby hit the prize with romance comics for Prize.

Stuntman would per chance bear suffered a little bit of by changing tastes among humorous book readers. Stuntman wore his circus costume, then added a helmet and went from circus stuntman and daredevil to 2-fisted costumed hero. The artwork is dynamic, nonetheless costumed heroes had been passé, and if humorous books in actuality glutted the market, then many potential readers would per chance no longer bear seen it. It is also that you also can mediate the distributors didn’t give shelf field to a humorous book book without a gross sales narrative.

Harvey no longer finest published the well-liked Stuntman #1, nonetheless also reprinted “Killer in the Sizable Top” twice, in Sunless Cat #9 (1948), and Thrills of The next day #19 (1955). What I mediate is precedent is the first net page banner that asks the reader to “Assign this main arena of Stuntman comics…this can even even be a worthwhile souvenir one day.”

From Stuntman #1 (1946):