SPACE GHOST VOL. 2 #6
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
STORY: David Pepose
ART: Jonathan Lau
COLORS: Andrew Dalhouse
LETTERS: Taylor Esposito
EDITOR: Joseph Rybandt
COVER: Francesco Mattina
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Jae Lee with June Chung; Bjorn Barends; Michael Cho; Francesco Mattina
32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (December 2025)
Rated “Teen”
“The Night of the Space Vampires!”
Space Ghost is a superhero character created by the American animation studio and production company, Hanna-Barbera Productions. The character first appeared in the Saturday morning cartoon series, “Space Ghost,” which was originally broadcast on CBS from September 1966 to September 1967 for 20 episodes. Space Ghost shared his television series with a second feature, entitled “Dino Boy in the Lost Valley.” Space Ghost was designed by cartoonist and comic book artist, Alex Toth (1928-2006), who created the character with Hanna-Barbera's founders, William Hanna (1910-2001) and Joseph Barbera (1911-2006).
In his original incarnation, Space Ghost was a superhero whose base of operations was a small world known as “Ghost Planet.” He fought super-villains in outer space with his teen sidekicks, Jan and Jace, and their monkey, Blip. His main weapons were power bands he wore around his wrists and lower arms; the bands fired off multiple energy beam-based attacks, including heat, cold, and force, to name a few. Space Ghost could also fly, survive in space, and turn invisible (his “Inviso Power”). He also had a space ship known as “the Phantom Cruiser.”
Space Ghost sporadically appeared in various comic book publications over a fifty year period. Dynamite Entertainment has just launched a new Space Ghost comic book as part of its licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Entitled Space Ghost Volume 2, it is written by David Pepose; drawn by Jonathan Lau; colored by Andrew Dalhouse; and lettered by Taylor Esposito. In the new series, The Space Ghost and his surrogate children, the twins Jan and Jace Keplar, and their monkey, Blip, fight the forces of darkness across the vastness of space.
Space Ghost Volume 2 #6 (“The Night of the Space Vampires!”) opens in Eclipse Sector 00Z4. It is the location of “Space Station Cosmos,” and Dr. Henry Contra (Jan and Jace's maternal grandfather) has just alerted Space Ghost that the station has gone silent. According to Dr. Contra, the station's last transmission included sounds of the station's crew screaming.
Space Ghost and the twins decide to investigate the station's situation only to discover that the station's crew members have been turned into bloodthirsty “Space Vampires.” It gets worse when one of the creatures also manages to infect Space Ghost. Now Jan, Jace, and Blip must find a way to not only survive the space vampires and the Space Vampire King, but also to contain the deadly contagion before it spreads across the galaxy.
THE LOWDOWN: Since July 2021, Dynamite Entertainment's marketing department has been providing me with PDF review copies of some of their titles. Space Ghost #6, Volume Two is one that I have received, but it is not the first Space Ghost comic book that I have read.
Under a killer main cover by Francesco Mattina, the creative team of writer David Pepose and artist Jonathan Lau offer their most frightening space story yet. That's saying a lot because Pepose and Lau have presented their readers with some pretty intense and harrowing adventures over the last few years, including the previous two-part tale about a war of crystals and sharks.
Yes, I am a fan of vampire fiction, and the Space Vampires are as delightfully entertaining as they are gleefully ravenous. I felt joy and apprehension while reading this tale. I'm enjoying Pepose's unique spin on vampires, and Lau's graphical storytelling, which conveys the endless hunger of the monsters, caused as many chills as it did thrills. Pepose and Lau are masters of standalone and of two-part comic book adventures.
I highly recommend Space Ghost Volume 2, dear readers. If you want good comic books, you want this – even if you don't know it yet.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Dynamite Entertainment's Warner Bros. comic book series will want to read Space Ghost Volume Two.
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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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