The Early Works of Cullen Bunn: Captain Cosmo

You may be familiar with Cullen Bunn from his work at Marvel, like Fear Itself: The Fearless, or his creator owned series, The Sixth Gun, but there’s a very good chance you never read his earliest work, Captain Cosmo, written and drawn when Bunn, when he was quite young. Here’s the story.

When I was 12 years old, my pal Doug and I founded HERO COMICS. This was not my first foray into the world of funny books. Years earlier, I had created MATTER MAN on several pages of onion skin paper. And not long after that I wrote and illustrated a 10-issue run of X-Lazer Nights (Yes, “Lazer” with a “Z” and “Nights” with an “N” although I later retconned it into “Knights”). Those books had been done for classroom friends. HERO COMICS was something different. We intended to sell these comics at conventions and make our fortune. We had four books in are line-up: Fatman, Chuck Frog, and Wise Wizard’s Words (an advice comic–for real!). Our flagship character, though, was Captain Cosmo, a superheroic alien with big muscles, a big smile, and an even bigger heart. I still have a couple of copies of Captain Cosmo and Fatman left over from those good old days.

Let us now take a look at some of the early sequential work from this now professional comic book writer. If you want to finish the saga, get over to Bunn’s website, where he has bravely posted it for all to see.

Comments

  1. Cliffhanger!

  2. I have to know what happens next !!!!