Donald A. Wollheim 13 min read

Introducing that modest little superman Ajax Calkins, first to claim a world everyone else overlooked, a planet where you have to hop, somehow, to get anywhere at all.

Donald A. Wollheim's 1941 story launches the comic space-opera adventures of the self-important Ajax Calkins. Fun, breezy golden-age pulp. Read it for a genial romp where a would-be pioneer bounces his way across a peculiar planet in pursuit of his rightful place in history.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

13 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Hannes Bok