Rip

Rip made their comics debut in the pages of Captain Science #4 in 1951, brought to life by the legendary Joe Orlando in the twilight of the Golden Age — a remarkable pedigree for any character to carry. Though their catalog footprint is compact, Rip shares those pages with a wonderfully evocative roster that includes Captain Science himself, the mysterious Mysta of the Moon, and the exotic Luana, placing this character squarely in the pulpy, rocket-fueled spirit of early science fiction comics. Turning up across titles like Barbarians and Beauties and the Golden-Age Science Fiction Treasury, Rip is a genuine artifact of that wide-eyed era when comics dreamed biggest about the cosmos — and for collectors who love hunting the roots of the medium, that 1951 Orlando debut alone makes Rip worth a closer look.