I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! by Fletcher Hanks

He often said his life’s work was remembering his 23,000 friends who died in the war.įrom July 1942 to August 1945, Hanks, sometimes called 'Christy' by his colleagues, flew 347 trips in unarmed C-47s delivering supplies to inaccessible areas of China using a path from India over the south ridge of the Himalayas called 'The Hump.' Years later, in 1997, he returned to China and he and a group of Chinese soldiers found the wreckage of CNAC 53, the airplane piloted by American Jim Fox and his Chinese co-pilot and operator. Hanks, known for his action-adventure life and strong opinions, is best known for his experience 'flying The Hump,' both in wartime and years later in the commemoration of his fallen comrades, and his book, Saga of CNAC 53, which chronicled those events. Karasik had tracked down Hanks’ surviving family, and it is through his interviews with them (especially Fletcher Jr.) that we know what we do about Hanks. But it’s important to recognize his accomplishments, many of which overshadow his father’s legacy: In 2007, cartoonist and editor Paul Karasik and Fantagraphics Books published a collection of Hanks’ works titled I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets. will always be known as the son of the evil genius of the Golden Age. died on March 16 after a March 8 auto accident. I Shall Destroy All Civilized Planets 1 - The Comics of Fletcher Hanks (Issue) I Shall Destroy All Civilized Planets 1 I Shall Destroy All Civilized Planets released by Fantagraphics. Fletcher Hanks worked in the earliest days of American comics, already aged over fifty, with his last. had never even known that his father illustrated comics, let alone had become something of an idol in the indie comics community.Īccording to a story posted on Karasik’s Web site, Hanks Jr. I Shall Destroy all the Civilized Planets review. Karasik ended up at the door of Fletcher Hanks Jr., a great man in his own right who shed a lot of light on his father. In last year’s collection of Fletcher Hanks comics, I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets, one of its best features was an epilogue written and illustrated by Paul Karasik that explained his effort to track down Hanks, or at least one of his relatives.

I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! by Fletcher Hanks