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Johnny Hazard was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Frank Robbins for King Features Syndicate. It was published from 1944 until 1977 with separate storylines for the daily strip and the Sunday strip.
Day before D-Day
After work in advertising, Robbins took over the daily strip Scorchy Smith from Noel Sickles in 1939 with a Sunday page added in 1940. King Features then asked Robbins to do Secret Agent X-9, but Robbins instead chose to devise an aviation comic for the syndicate, and Johnny Hazard was launched on Monday, June 5, 1944, one day before D-Day. While working on the strip during the 1940s, Robbins contributed illustrations to Life, look, The Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. Robbins stopped drawing Johnny Hazard in 1977 and retired to Mexico in order to devote himself to painting full time.
Characters and story
The strip followed the globe-trotting adventures of aviator Johnny Hazard, initially as a member of the United States Army Air Corps in World War II, later as a Cold War secret agent. Comics historian Don Markstein described the transition:
As the story opened, Johnny, like most American men of his generation, was fighting World War II. But his gig with the Army Air Corps didn't last long, as D-Day came when the strip was only a day old. But the only effect civilian life had on him was to enlarge the scope of his adventures—as a freelance pilot, Johnny ranged throughout the entire world. (An early focus, though, was China, putting him head-to-head with the rival Chicago Tribune Syndicate's Terry and the Pirates.) Johnny dealt with spies, beautiful women, smugglers, gorgeous dames, sci-fi style menaces, fabulous chicks and all the other kinds of folks a two-fisted adventurer of his calibre would be expected to deal with. As he did, unlike many fictional two-fisted adventurers, he matured—not as quickly as real people, but after a third of a century or so, he was quite gray at the temples. And a third of a century was as long as the strip ran. It was popular enough at first, and ran far longer than most post-war adventure strips, but the times were against it. Newspaper editors were more interested in daily gags than continuous stories, and Johnny Hazard succumbed to the trend in 1977.
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Adventure into Fear #28 pg 2, Morbius is badly injured while Martine and Stroud deal with a real female vampire at police headquarters
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$For sale or trade
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Adventure into Fear #31 pg, Morbius vs female vampire 1975
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Captain America #186 pg 11, Falcon origin, Cap & Red Skull
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Captain America #187 pg 31, splash page. Cap meets Alchemoid
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ROBBINS, FRANK - GS Invaders #1 pg, Captain America relives Pearl Harbor + FDR / Hitler
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ROBBINS, FRANK - House of Secrets #123 cover, depicts Alex Toth famous ice cream story 1974
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$for sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Human Fly #13 pg 12, Marvel reality hero 1978
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #11 page 10 four of the Invaders in action on one page: Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Human Torch and Toro
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Please Inquire
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #12 page 2
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #12 pg 23, Timely Heroes: Submariner, Capt America
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$Email for Pricing
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #13 page 26
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$SOLD
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #13 page 3
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #13 pg 8, Jacob creates Golem to grab Nazi occupier 1977
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #15 page 26
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #15 pg 3, Spitfire intros Crusaders - British Superhero team
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$for sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #2 (GS #2) pg 10 Captain America, Blonde alien vs Nazi Brain
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #2 page, 2nd Issue! Nazi Brain (meant for Giant Size #2)
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #23 page 10
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #23 page 3
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #6 pg 11, big panel - Red Skull taunts Captain America Sub-Mariner Human Torch as captives
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #6 pg 14, Red Skull taunts Captain America Sub-Mariner as captives
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #6 pg 31, Bucky & 1st Liberty Legion story (Red Raven Thin-Man Whizzer ) vs evil Human Torch
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Invaders #7 splash, Timely Heroes: Submariner, Captain America, Human Torch
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$For trade or great offers
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard 1/25 1977, Johnny, jet planes
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard 12/3 1961 Sunday
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard 5/27 1959, Johnny and Asian gal hiding out
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard daily 10/13 1975, Johnny guards Princess & money thru airport
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard daily 10/6 1959, Johnny & Miss Sabina, in court
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard daily 11/28 1955, Johnny in copter & kidnapped Brook
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard daily 12/3 1959, Johnny, plane to boat chase
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard daily 12/31 1968, Johnny sees Leni Star poster
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard daily 3/26 1945, dogfight
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard daily 3/26 1957, jail, snowball
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard daily 5/22 1959, Johnny & Sequin, General Ho-Tsin
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard daily 6/12 1959, Johnny & Sequin, General Ho-Tsin
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard daily 8/22 1961, Blonde kidnapped to draw Johnny
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard daily 9/17 1969, Johnny losing at cards
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard daily 9/18 1959, Johnny & Miss Sabina, jet plane
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard daily 9/3 1974, Johnny, gunplay
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - JOHNNY HAZARD Sunday 10/25 1970
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard Sunday 10/8 1944, from first few months of Sunday strips
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard Sunday 11/25 1945, Johnny, Blonde on C-47
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard Sunday 1946, copter in water
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$For Trade only
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ROBBINS, FRANK - JOHNNY HAZARD Sunday 1966, tiger cage
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard Sunday 2/15 1976, Johnny tricks fat villains
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard Sunday 2/8 1976, Johnny caught by fat villains
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$sold
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard Sunday 3/13 1977, Johnny and Rhoda
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard Sunday 3/13 1977, Johnny and Rhoda, camera and bomb
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard Sunday 7/6 1947 at airport depot
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$for sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard Sunday 7/6 1947, early Hazzard example
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard Sunday 8/20 1944, from first few months of Sunday strips
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard Sunday 9-3 1972, African trip
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ROBBINS, FRANK - JOHNNY HAZARD Sunday 9/3 1967, Johnny Scuba gear
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - JOHNNY HAZARD Sunday, Johnny & Asian wing-gal 12/15 1974
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazard Sunday, Johnny flies in with Sydney Strong & Liana shows up 11/6 1955
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazzard daily 12/27/44, saving Brandy, gunplay
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazzard daily 5/27 1959 Hazzard & gal on run, find chicken
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazzard daily 6/4 1976 Hazzard in F-21 JET
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Johnny Hazzard daily 9/17 1959, Johnny, blonde to Hong Kong
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Man from Atlantis #2 semi-splash page
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Please Inquire
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Man from Atlantis #7 pg, final issue - Plaxy, jungle-girl / Dino rider saves gal & Mark - Moon-Girl prototype 1978
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$for sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Scorchy Smith daily 1/28 1940, Johnny, blonde Spitfire
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Scorchy Smith daily 12/14 1943, USO dates
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Scorchy Smith daily 3/22 1939, Asian villainess, death-traps
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Scorchy Smith daily 5/11 1940s, Scorchy, blonde in plane
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Scorchy Smith daily 5/11 1944s, Scorchy, brunette on boat
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Scorchy Smith daily 6/14 1942?, Scorchy catches Commander Todt on plane
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Scorchy Smith daily 6/2 1942?, Scorchy, Russians, fleeing Commander Todt
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Scorchy Smith daily 8/2 1939, Johnny, Turkish planting
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Scorchy Smith daily 8/24 1939, Johnny, Blonde, planted book
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - Scorchy Smith Sunday 3/12 1944, traitor uncovers Nazi troops
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK - What If? #4 page 9 Invaders Human Torch kills Hitler
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$Hold
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ROBBINS, FRANK: Johnny Hazard Sunday 2-2 1975 Johnny, Comrade Tanya
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK: Johnny Hazard Sunday 6-1 1972, decoding spies
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK: Johnny Hazard Sunday 8-20 1972, Johnny, Miss Fern Sherwood
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$For Sale
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ROBBINS, FRANK: Johnny Hazard Sunday, 12/26 1954, radium statue and lead suits
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$For Sale
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