Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune Vol. 2: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips 1936-1937 (Vol. 2) (Roy Crane's Captain Easy)

Crane, Roy; Pope, Paul

ISBN 10: 1606993917 / ISBN 13: 9781606993910

Editore: Fantagraphics Books, 2011

Volume 2. Boards have edge wear, scratches, rubbed/bumped corners, rubbed spine. Small bent page corners. No writing. Codice articolo 051629

Riassunto:

This second of four volumes reprints in full color the rare Captain Easy Sunday pages from the 1930s. Roy Crane’s Soldier of Fortune, Captain Easy, fights for gold in the frozen north, is mistaken for a bandit, protects a formula for artificial diamonds, is stranded on a desert island, visits the tiny Balkan country of Kleptomania, and faces a firing squad. Captain Easy hobnobs with millionaires and bums and beautiful girls (of course), and winds up in the middle of a full scale war. In short, it’s another rousing series of adventure and humor encapsulating the gallantry, derring-do, and rough-and-tumble innocence of a bygone era and a bygone genre, written and drawn with panache, and practically painted in a vibrant spectrum of colors that you have to see to believe.

Long before the first superhero, Roy Crane’s courageous, indomitable, and cliff-ganging rough guy served as the template for characters that later defined comic books, and set the aesthetic standards for the newspaper strip. Crane’s mastery is why Peanuts creator Charles Schulz said of him (circa 1989): “A treasure. There is still no one around who draws any better.”

Product Description: Book by Crane Roy

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Titolo: Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune Vol. 2: The...
Casa editrice: Fantagraphics Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2011
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good