Monday, 2 March 2009

Comic Hero # 1: The Flying Dutchman

This is the first installment of a 9 part series on forgotten comicbook heroes of yore.

The Flying Dutchman was a back up feature  in the popular  Airboy comicbook ( later called Air Fighter Comics) of the World War 2 era, known as the Golden Age of comics. It was published by Hillman. It's unknown who wrote his adventures but they were drawn by Bob Fujitani. The Flying Dutchman was a fighter pilot from the Netherlands whose family was killed by the Nazis and his adventures were basically vengence for this. He would drop white roses from his plane after he defeated an enemy. The story is a bit thin butI love his costume.

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