The first volume of Fletcher Hanks stories, I Shall Destroy AllCivilizedPlanets! (now in its fourth printing) was an Eisner Award-winningsmash hit and a staple on "Best of the Year" lists. Edited bycartoonist Paul Karasik, this second volume, You Shall Die By Your Own EvilCreation , collects all of the rest of Hanks comic book work. The thirty-onetales in this book, when combined with the first volume, will comprise TheComplete Fletcher Hanks! Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur:that is, he wrote, penciled, inked and lettered all of his own stories, many ofwhich feature the cold space wizard superhero Stardust or the jungle protectressFantomah. Today's mature readers - both comics fans and non-comics fans wholearned about the book from magazines such as The Believer and otherjournals - are stunned by these comics' pop surrealism and outright violentmayhem.
