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

Product Code: 32797
Roy Crane's Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips, Volume 2: 1936-1937

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

Product Code: 32797
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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.

Special features of this volume include a foreword by series editor Rick Norwood, an illustrated introduction by fellow cartoonist and Crane aficionado Paul Pope, an essay by the late Bill Blackbeard, and a gallery of rare Captain Easy comic book covers.

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.'

"Crane to this day is an influence. He was the true comic artist. I love the way he did characters in action, running around, jumping." — Jules Feiffer

"Today I still admire the work of Roy Crane." — Basil Wolverton

"Roy Crane could do anything. Roy Crane did adventure with a beautiful combination of cartooning and storytelling. Every panel was an entertaining panel with something to look at." — John Severin

Crane, Roy
Norwood (ed.), Rick

Condition & Attributes

Very Fine

Publishing Information

Fantagraphics
2011
1st
9781606993910

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