Johnny Comet Daily Strip, June 5, 1952
This is the second Frank Frazetta Johnny Comet original strip I’ve owned, and it’s a vast improvement over the first.
William Wray, a very talented artist himself, says it best:
“That’s a great one — you got the drama, you got the cute girl, and the comedy poses.”
The short-lived Johnny Comet / Ace McCoy strips have been collected numerous times (see below) but we’ve yet to see an “ultimate” collection, complete, restored and properly formatted.
Of the existing collections, my personal favorite is the Eclipse hardcover, (or softcover) from 1991 which is similar to the horizontal Library of American Comics (LOAC) strip format, although it’s missing a few strips. It must have been somewhat over-printed, because there are still plenty of copies out there.
While I was working on this post, I happened to see a fun Dave Stevens tribute (Rocketeer) to Frazetta’s Johnny Comet on the great Facebook group, “Comics Swipes.” (H/T Arty Freeman).