Fletcher Hanks

Fletcher Hanks, Sr. was a cartoonist from the Golden Age of Comic Books, who wrote and drew stories detailing the adventures of allpowerful, supernatural heroes and their elaborate punishments of transgressors. In addition to his birth name, Hanks worked under a number of pen names, including Henry Fletcher, C.C. Starr, Barclay Flagg, Bob Jordan, and Hank Christy. Hanks was active in comic books from 1939 to 1941.

Little is known of the life of Fletcher Hanks. He was born on December 1, 1889 in Paterson, New Jersey and grew up in Oxford, Maryland. His father, William Hanks, was a Methodist minister, and his mother, Alice Fletcher Hanks, was daughter of English immigrants they married c.1885 . Fletcher himself married Margaret c.1912 . In 1910, his mother paid for her son to take the W.160L. Evans correspondence course in cartooning as early as 1911 he described himself as a cartoonist

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