Jet Fury and his mystery plane, The Comet, fights crime. Art by Larry Horak.
JET STARR is by Yaroslav Horak, who, after a move to England a decade later, became best known for his work on the newspaper comic strip JAMES BOND.
STARR evolved from the American comic SKYMAN, that appeared in comic books from Columbia. beginning with Big Shot Comics #1 in 1940. SKYMAN was a goggled high tech, crime fighting aviator created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Ogden Whitney. See https://www.comics.org/issue/1180/cover/4/
Horak then created a copycat character, also named SKYMAN, in the 40s for the Australian ACTION COMICS from Leisure Productions. See https://tinyurl.com/59ekcha2
When the artist moved over to Pyramid. the feature was christened as the more famous JET FURY. Researcher John Ryan only says "For Pyramid, Horak created a costumed hero, Jet Fury, who looked like his Skyman character."
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