Guess the connection between these two Lost Heroes!

Besides the fact they both fly!

Answer: they're both jet-propelled!

(Air-Man's wings are balloons! They don't flap like Hawkman, Birdman, or most other avian-themed characters!)

When ornithologist Claude Stevens was brutally murdered by criminals with an unbreakable alibi, his son Drake decided to avenge him by becoming a masked vigilante.

Using a jet-pack of his own design along with wing-shaped balloons for maneuverability and lift, Drake created an appropriately bird-themed secret identity as Air-Man to work outside the law for justice!

Air-Man caught the murderers, and decided to continue battling evil wherever he found it in the pages of Keen Detective Funnies and Detective Eye Comics!

On the other hand, Cal Martin and Doris Dalton were scientists who used their jet-packs as RocketMan and Rocket Girl almost on a whim, and found they enjoyed crimefighting, so they kept at it for several years!

They appeared in the back pages of the entire run of Scoop Comics, but never made the cover spot!

When Scoop was cancelled, they moved to Punch Comics where Rocket Girl finally got a solo cover, but RocketMan never did!

When their publisher went out of business, another company picked up the rights but re-named them Zip-Jets, since the abandoned "RocketMan" trademark had been taken over by Republic Pictures for their otherwise unrelated leather-jacketed flying serial hero!

Two issues of Zip-Jet, reprinting their Scoop & Punch stories came out before their new publisher also went kaput!

The duo made a final appearance in a one-shot titled Atomic Comics, but whether it was new or reprinted material is unknown, since the issue we scanned for our kool kollectibles was slabbed! ;-(

All three characters have re-appeared in minor roles in Alex Ross' Project SuperPowers, with hints of bigger things to come!

We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ have revived both Air-Man (both Keen Detective Funnies appearances) AND RocketMan & Rocket Girl aka the Zip-Jets, as part of our Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™ line, on t-shirts, messenger bags, mugs and other kool kollectibles!

Next time someone says "Look, up in the sky...", it might not be who you think...

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Black Terror, Death Defying 'Devil, Masquerade, and Project SuperPowers "Chapter 2", as well as Savage Dragon! ON SALE NOW!