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'', and the 1969 and 1972 ''Tiger Annuals''.

Publication history

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created ''Jet-Ace Logan''. He scripted the first adventure, which was drawn by Geoff Campion, and published in ''The Comet''. All subsequent adventures (approximately 20 in all) appearing in ''The Comet'' were scripted by

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; other artists illustrated the character's adventures, including Brian Lewis,Steve Holland
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Fictional character biography

The hero, Jim "Jet-Ace" Logan, was an ace interplanetary pilot of the RAF; stories were set about 100 years in the future (for example, the story in the 1963 ''Tiger Annual'' is set in 2063). In all but the earliest stories, his regular copilot, Plum-Duff (sometimes Plumduff) Charteris, accompanied Jet-Ace. Many of the insightful scenarios, written in the 1950s, seem applicable more than a half a century later. For example, in one adventure, Jet-Ace was involved in fighting a group of aliens who endeavored to destroy humankind by contaminating the planet's atmosphere. In later stories, Jet-Ace and Plumduff belonged to various law enforcement agencies, such as the Solar Police rather than military organizations.

In popular culture

The Finnish cartoonist Petri Hiltunen created a spoof of Jet-Ace, named Rocket Reynolds, under a pseudonym, "Valentin Kalpa".

References

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