{"product_id":"david-wrights-judy-limited-edition-74324","title":"David Wright's Judy - Limited Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the publisher:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eFour complete stories, 119 episodes!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eIn the early 1950s David Wright made an unusual career move for a successful commercial and pinup artist – he turned to comics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eAn early product of his new direction was the strip Judy, which he began in 1953 with John Hunter (writing as Peter Meriton) providing scripts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eJudy is a standard adventure strip for the time – a young, beautiful girl is thrust into danger with her partner, Ricky, and their treasure-hunting adventures take them to exotic locales all over the world in a series of loosely plotted melodramas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eHere are the first FOUR Stories, comprising episodes 1-119.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eThe Fanton Package\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eThe Zexitcico Treasure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eThe SS Morna Gold\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eThe Kalda Diamond\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eThis is the first printing of David Wright's Judy since its original publication in Tit-Bits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eJudy is not quite Carol Day, due to weaker plots and cardboard characters, but maintains a strong appeal because of the art and its adventure premise, and it was a great vehicle for Wright's beautiful cheesecake panels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eIn our view, it's a minor gem by one of the greatest strip artists to practice the art and is well worth fans' attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eTearsheets are not the ideal source for reprinting strips, but original art and proofs are unavailable (as far as we know they are not extant), and we believe the strip is worth preserving in spite of the limitations of our source material.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slingsby Bros, Ink!","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52916373717290,"sku":"74324","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/2879\/4922\/files\/dwjudyfc-l.webp?v=1791751872","url":"https:\/\/stuartngbooks.com\/products\/david-wrights-judy-limited-edition-74324","provider":"Stuart Ng Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}