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One of Hillman's debut comic book titles, Rocket Comics featured Rocket Riley, a character influenced by Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. RocketComics sponsored

Emile C. Schurmacherat that time. Certainly, Schurmacher's method in creating Sky Wizard, as he related in Writer's Digest in 1940 has a familiar ring:

Pick yourself a hero, a Buck Rogers or a Superman. Put him in an exotic surrounding in this world or another. Get him into a mortal conflict with an arch villain. Work in a chase. Keep your love interest, if any at an absolute minimum. Do that and you've got an action comic sequence and your chance of selling it depends upon the uniqueness of locale and exploits of your hero.

That's a pretty close description of what was begun in Rocket Comics. Rocket Riley, who is engaged to Professor Sterling's daughter Griselda, works as a rocket pilot for the Professor, who is developing atomic-powered rocket ships. Their project is under threat from a villain named Von Strangle. During a tour of the rocket ship, Strangle and Yacco attempt to seize the vessel, but inadvertently launch it into space, where it's pulled into the orbit of a distant planet.

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