For better or for worse, master cartoonist Basil Wolverton may have single-handedly altered thousands of boys' psyches. In a 50-year career, marvelously surveyed here, Wolverton provided 13-year-old nerds (and more than a few adults) with a nearly inexhaustible supply of comics on pre-teen fantasies: richly imagined sci-fi exploits, slapstick violence, visions of Armageddon, and, best known for... More >>>