I finished reading the complete works of Fletcher Hanks, and I made a list of my favorite lines. I realized that his work is the first time I've come across a "so bad it's good" thing in comics, like a graphic novel by Ed Wood or Tommy Wiseau.
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• Turn loose our death rays and kill them all!
• You shall die by your own evil creation!
• You are now in the power of Stardust!
• The planes immediately curl into distorted and useless wrecks.
• The air is so pure, and so full of vitamins, you will live to great age!
• He’s making artificial creatures out of chemicals!
• You are partners! Partners in death!
• He’s surely produced a violent chemical! The madman is clever!
• That’s “Slant-Eye” and his gang! All tough babies!
• I must save that gold!
• He is planning to invade and conquer the jungle with hypnotized reptiles!
• I’ll develop a powerful sixth column to combat their underhand work!
• Before long, he has selected a great army of red-blooded boys who would like to do something for their country.
• You shall become one of them, and eat mud and fire for the rest of your days!
• Gravity is being destroyed!
• Grucko!
• Some fiend is planning to wreck the civilized planets!
• I shall destroy all the civilized planets!
• We’ll ram it hard!
• We must end democracy and civilization forever!
• I shall transform you into one man!