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Early fifties science-fiction comics can seem light years from contemporary tastes, but Jet Powers, from cult favorite Bob Powell remains as entertaining and eye-catching as ever! This deluxe hardcover collects the complete adventures of Jet Powers, known as "The Captain of Science," as he battles his diabolical adversary Mr. Sinn with the best 1950s-era technology at his disposal. Includes all of the Powell-created stories from very difficult to find original sources Jet Powers 1-4 and The American Air Forces. With an introduction by Steve Rude (Nexus) and an essay by Eisner-winning author James Vance (Kings in Disguise) and Fangoria columnist John Wooley.
Bob Powell's Complete Jet Powers, by Bob Powell- Amazon Sales Rank: #1511500 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Released on: 2015-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.47" h x .83" w x 6.89" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 168 pages
About the Author Bob Powell was an artist who was mainly active during the Golden Age of American comics. Born as Stanley Robert Pawlowski, he attended the Pratt Institute in New York City, and went to work for the Eisner-Iger studios in the late 1930s. He worked for many companies through this studios, like Fiction House (Jumbo Comics), Fox (Wonderworld Comics, Mystery Men Comics), and Harvey (Ted Parrish in Speed Comics), Timely, Quality (Crack Comics, Hit Comics, Military Comics, Smash Comics, Feature Comics). His most famous work during his Eisner-Iger years was Sheena, which he created for Fiction House's Jumbo Comics. Later on, Powell went to work in Will Eisner's personal studio, and co-plotted the first Blackhawk story in Quality's Military Comics, and co-created Spirit of 76 for Harvey's Pocket Comics. When the Spirit Sunday Comic Book section started in 1940, Powell took on the artwork of the Mr Mystic back-up feature, which was written by Eisner. After a while, Powell took on the writing as well, and he continued Mr. Mystic until he joined the Air Force in 1943. He officially changed his name from Stanely Pawlowski to S. Robert Powell in 1943.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Buy the book for the art and stories... not the commentary By Wallace Harrington This is Dark Horse/Kitchen Sink's third Powell collection of Magazine Enterprises stories... that is if you include their volume of Thun'da (with the first issue by Frank Frazetta and the remaining stories by Powell) and the Cave Girl book from 2014. All of these series were rather short; Thun'da ran for 6 issues in total,(plus some stories in Cave Girl), Cave Girl for 5 issues (including a comic called Africa - Thrilling Land of Mystery and some stories in Thun'da) and Jet Powers appeared as a science-fiction/Doc Savage character in only 4 issues and a US pilot in Korea in 4 issues of American Air Forces. So none of these series was that long, and easily compiled in one volume.Let me begin by saying that I am not a fan of books that are made to look like old comics, as this one is. Thun'da was a larger hardback with a dust jacket printed on glossy white paper. It appears, though, that Dark Horse decided to change the format with the Cave Girl collection. The stories here, like that volume, are printed about the same size as a modern comic (so smaller than they were originally printed) on an “off-white” paper to make it resemble the look of a golden age comic.The stories in the first four segments were typical 1950's sci-fi weirdness. I am not a war-comics buff, so that held less interest to me. The reproduction is pretty good, and the colors are all on register (which cannot always be said for the original comics) so you can appreciate the art. Still, aesthetics aside, I’d prefer the reproduction to be larger and on white paper. And while that is true, I enjoyed the stories a lot.As was already mentioned, though, the curious thing to me was that they had Steve Rude write the introduction and James Vance and John Wooley contribute some thoughts as a foreward and afterward. I like Rude's art, and him as a person. But he began his essay by saying that he had never seen the work before he was asked for the forward. So why ask him to write an introduction? Dark Horse did the same thing with the Cave Girl Book having Mark Schultz write the forward, not so much about Cave Girl per se but more about the "Jungle Girl" genre in general. I am thinking having a comics professional write the forward adds some credence or gravitas to the book. I just thought having a fan of Powell's art might help.I don’t know Vance or Wooley. They also wrote for the Cave Girl volume. The intro was the all too common… I discovered this series when my (fill in relative) put me on a (train, plane, automobile) trip and I was allowed to buy some (previously forbidden) comics and I discovered this character. While they did interview Powell's son, there weren't any great new insights and no mention of little details like the SR-1 and SRP-2 painted on Jet’s ship were actually Powell’s initials. None of that. No history; no mention of Powell's beginning with Eisner, his work on Mr Mystic, or Sheena or even that he had worked on Thun'da or Cave Girl or The Avenger or much else he worked on at ME. No real information and it really didn't give any historical reference for the character or series. Perhaps less needed to be written speculating on who wrote the stories and more discussion of the art in the stories which was just plain fun and adventure.Perhaps I am being overly critical of these things as the real focus of a book like this is the stories, not the commentary. But when a book is priced as these are... $50 retail with no dust jacked... and knowing that there are lots of people in comic fandom who know a lot more about Powell's work and history, I would have turned to them for better essays.Regardless, I recommend the book for many reason... discover and enjoy Powell's art and read the stories… even with the character changing from a dashing space hero in the beginning to a Korean War pilot at the end… and then go get the other two. Powell is a forgotten treasure for comics fans.Still, a nice thing to have if you like Powell and want everything in one volume.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Doc Savage for the Atomic Age By Stephen Vincent Kempton While I originally thought Jet Powers was a Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers clone he is actually more of Doc Savage character since he lives in the present day ( the 1950's) rather then in the future. His subtitle is "Man Of Science". He is a scientist, an inventor as well as an explorer and adventurer. He lives in a underground laboratory cavern in the American South West desert Mesa. He has a distinctive white crew cut hair and a chiseled face. He resembled actor Jeff Chandler.Jet Powers appeared in a mere four issues of his own comic which was simply entitled Jet. Each issue had three separate stories. After the end of that book Jet Powers was simply repurposed as an Air Force pilot in the Korean War. This Comic was called The American Air Forces and was published in 1951 to 1953. Jet had a story in six of eight issues published and these war stories are also included.This is companion book to the Cave Girl volume published in 2014. It was published by Dark Horse and put together by their Kitchen Sink Imprint. It is a quality Hard Cover but slightly over priced for only 168 pages. It has excellent introduction and afterwards by John Wooley and James Vance. The other introduction by Steve Rude is rather pointless since he had never even heard of the character before being asked to write an Introduction.The publishers have once more decided to use the tan paper to give it the realistic look of a comic of that era. I would have preferred white paper like a Marvel Masterwork. The color restoration is slightly better then the Cave Girl volume where the quality for a couple stories were inferior to the rest. The restoration is much better then the color Xerox's of say PS Artbooks, but no where as good as a Marvel Masterwork. All the dot matrix coloring has been converted to solid colors and the bleeding over the line blotches have been removed.Bob Powell art is excellent here and he really excels at the Science Fiction settings. This art is comparable to the excellent EC comics work done by Wally Wood and Al Williamson. His knowledge of then current Air Craft and Military equipment saves the rather generic later done War Stories from being a disappointment.The writing is thought to be the work of then M.E. Comics workhorse Gardner Fox. Fox also did most the other recent collections of M.E. Comics like Thunda, Ghost Rider and Cave Girl.There is some speculation that Powell have written, co-written or plotted some of these stories. Regardless they are superior to the above listed efforts. While these stories are totally zanny and unbelievable they are intricately plotted with a lot happening in each story. The stories all run a mere seven to ten pages each.In the very first episode we meet the evil Mr. Sinn who is unfortunately a racist Yellow Peril stereotype. Dr. Sinn has created a machine which is causing worldwide Earthquakes and massive destruction. It is up to Jet Powers and his Graviton Gun to save the day.The stories run the gamut from Alien Invasion, Time Travel , Giant Grasshoppers, Robot's gone wild and Animals on the loose. Jet also gets involved in war between the friendly Martians and The Evil Venusians. In one of the most startling stories a Radioactive Death Dust settles on the earth killing most of the population before Jet Powers can invent a remedy for the survivors.The book has a tighter continuity then you would expect for a book published in 1951 . Not only do villains reappear but some stories are direct sequels to others. The Martian War and The Death Dust stories both get a follow up story.The only other major re-occuring character is the beautiful Su Shan. She is of Asian decent and modeled after Milton Caniff's Dragon Lady. Su Shan and Jet Powers have a very bizarre relationship. She appears in the very first episode as Dr. Sinn's assistant. When Dr. Sinn throws her out of his plane, Jet rescues her. In the next couple episodes she appears to be being held in Jet's underground laboratory against her will. Twice she tries to leave and return to Dr. Sinn. When Jet rescues her the for a third time she starts kissing him and now they are boyfriend and girlfriend.Recommended.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Bob Powell's Complete Jet Powers By THOMAS C. BIAGI Never saw this as a kid, wish I had. I was reading lot's of Sci Fi at the time and this would of fit in.Powell is one of the better artist of those days.
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