Jet-Ace Logan



Jet-Ace Logan was a British comic strip that appeared in The Comet (1956-1959) and Tiger (1959-1968), issues of Thriller Picture Library, plus the 1969 and 1972 Tiger Annuals. It was originally drawn by John Gillat, and writers contributing scripts included David Motton, Kenneth Bulmer, and Frank S. Pepper; other artists illustrated the character's adventures, including Brian Lewis, Ron Turner, Francisco Solano López, Kurt Caesar and Geoff Campion.

The hero, Jim "Jet-Ace" Logan, was an ace interplanetary pilot of the RAF; stories were set about 100 years in the future (for example, the story in the 1963 Tiger Annual is set in 2063). In all but the earliest stories, his regular copilot, Plum-Duff (sometimes Plumduff) Charteris, accompanied Jet-Ace.

Many of the insightful scenarios, written in the 1950s, seem applicable more than a half a century later. For example, in one adventure, Jet-Ace was involved in fighting a group of aliens who endeavored to destroy humankind by contaminating the planet's atmosphere.

In later stories, Jet-Ace and Plumduff belonged to various law enforcement agencies, such as the Solar Police, rather than military organizations.

The Finnish cartoonist Petri Hiltunen created a spoof of Jet-Ace, Rocket Reynolds, under a pseudonym "Valentin Kalpa".