Quarter Bin 109 "Rocketman"

Rocketman #4 (Innovation)
from 1991

So apparently this was based on a classic serial, one that has been lost to history, much like this later comics adaptation.  The idea of the movie might have inspired the Rocketeer.  The comic, in its final issue, barely features the hero, but it seems pretty relevant, on the whole, to modern times, the age of terror.  I wonder if anyone else noticed that.

(In case you thought the serial wasn't real.)

The Rocketeer, meanwhile, was a kind of comic book version of Indiana Jones, insofar as it was an update of classic serials developed in the '80s, and later it became a movie, one of the '90s attempts at cashing in on the superhero success of Tim Burton's Batman, well before anyone was really ready for a lot more superheroes.

Maybe Rocketman (kind of reads like Dean Motter's Mister X, in some ways) will be revived again?