History ComicBook / StardustTheSuperWizard

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: The ''intended''' message of the comics (but see below.) Stardust is portrayed as a pure and noble hero while the villains are irredeemable monsters.

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: The *intended* message of the comics (but see below.) Safe to say that there's no moral ambiguity in these comics. Stardust is a pure and noble hero while the villains are irredeemable monsters.

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Safe to say that there's no moral ambiguity in these comics. Stardust is a pure and noble hero while the villains are irredeemable monsters.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: A rare unintentional variation. While Stardust is supposed to be IncorruptiblePurePureness, he comes off as needlessly sadistic and brutal at the best of times, and completely removed from human morality and emotion.#

* AuthorAppeal: In Paul Karasik's books that collected Stardust's stories and had sections on creator Fletcher Hanks's personal life and family, it's implied that Stardust's weird inhumanity and ruthlessness is how an abusive personality like Hanks's would interpret a crimefighting superhero.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: A rare unintentional variation. While Stardust is supposed to be IncorruptiblePurePureness, he comes off as needlessly sadistic and brutal at the best of times, and completely removed from human morality and emotion.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He is known for his very strange and creative methods of punishing villains, such as turning them into ice and having them melt away, or turning them into human-headed rats and drowning them, or using his shrink ray to shrink only a criminal's body, then throwing his head like a ball into space.

* LightIsGood: Hypothetically, Stardust, who is a space wizard powered by the light of the stars who has a ray for everything. In practice, however, he is extremely violent and sadistic.

* ShowyInvincibleHero: He has the power to do basically anything, at any time, whenever he wants. He never faces an enemy who's the least bit of a danger to him, and the cruel and bizarre punishments he metes out rub their powerlessness in their faces.

* InvincibleHero: Stardust isn't ''quite'' [[ComicStrip/TomTheDancingBug the Invincible God-Man]], but he's pretty darn close.

* AliensAreBastards: Taken UpToEleven; the alien villains are [[CardCarryingVillain card carrying villains]] who are out to destroy Earth ForTheEvulz.

* WhatTheHellHero: Although he's not called on it, Stardust's M.O. (mind you, he's supposed to be the ''hero'') is to find out about a crime a criminal intends to commit (often with an enormous loss of life), ''let them commit the crime'', then apprehend them and torture or kill them in bizarre ways.

* WhatTheHellHero: Although he's not called on it, Stardust's M.O. is to find out about a crime a criminal intends to commit (often with an enormous loss of life), ''let them commit the crime'', then apprehend them and torture or kill them in bizarre ways.

In 2016, Fantagraphics Books published ''Turn Loose Our Death Rays and Kill Them All!'' -- a hardcover compilation of all of Fletcher Hanks' known work -- which naturally includes all of Stardust's demented adventures, among those of Hanks' other characters, Fantomah, Space Smith, and Big Red.

* InvincibleHero: Stardust isn't ''quite'' the Invincible God-Man from this trope's page image, but he's pretty darn close.

In 2016, Fantagraphics Books published ''Turn Loose Our Death Rays and Kill Them All!'' - a hardcover compilation of all of Fletcher Hanks' known work - which naturally includes all of Stardust's demented adventures, among those of Hanks' other characters, Fantomah, Space Smith, and Big Red.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Stardust looks human, but is about 8 feet tall and comes from outer space. His proportions are otherwise pretty freakish, but that's par the course for Hanks' art style.

** BlackAndGreyMorality: A rare unintentional variation. While Stardust is supposed to be IncorruptiblePurePureness, he comes off as needlessly sadistic and brutal at the best of times, and completely removed from human morality and emotion.

* HandBlast: He can shoot various "rays" and "beams" from his hands, which can do things such as disintegrate people, crush people to death, shrink and grow things, and turn people into rats.

* YellowPeril: The one-time villain "Slant-Eye", but only on a surface level. Beyond the name and his [[{{Yellowface}} yellowface]] styled appearance, the script never mentions his race or nationality and he gets about as much development as a villain than the other evil men in suits.

* AliensAreBastards: Taken UpToEleven; the alien villains are CardCarryingVillains who are out to destroy Earth ForTheEvulz.

Stardust the Super Wizard is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeofComicbooks Golden Age]] superhero, written, penciled and inked by [[Creator/FletcherHanks]] for the [[Creator/WillEisner Eisner & Iger]] comic book "packager".

Stardust the Super Wizard is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeofComicbooks Golden Age]] superhero, written, penciled and inked by Fletcher Hanks for the [[Creator/WillEisner Eisner & Iger]] comic book "packager".

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: With Stardust himself, this is hand-waved in an early mention of him having artificial lungs that enable him to breath in space. This is otherwise played straight with an unnamed woman that Stardust brings home with him after her family is killed in a house fire. She apparently has no trouble on the trip flying home through space. The vultures from Venus can also apparently breathe in space.

* LightIsGood: Hypothetically, Stardust, who is a space wizard powered by the light of the stars who has a ray for everything. In practise, however, he is extremely violent and sadistic.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Stardust's leotard is actually a "flexible star-metal skin" that renders him impervious to violent force, chemicals and electricty (though it's not like he ever needs it).

* YellowPeril: The one-time villain "Slant-Eye", who resembles a racist Asian caricature, but only on a surface level. Beyond the name, the script never mentions his race or nationality and he gets about as much development as a villain than the other evil men in suits.