A complete set of the Dutch edition of Alex Raymond's Rip Kirby strips.

Dutch publisher Uitgeverij Boumaar produced the luxurious eight volume "Complete uitgave Rip Kirby" in 1998 and 1999 in a limited edition of 800 copies per volume. Each volume is a 9.4 x 13.5 hardcover, 96 pages, beautifully bound in artificial leather with gold stamping and embossed on the front cover with a classic portrait of Rip.

These eight books reprint Alex Raymond's entire run on Rip Kirby. The strips are printed 5 per page. The first strip is 4 March 1946. The last strip is 20 October 1956. The first volume has a 7-page introduction.

This was one of the earliest complete collections of Alex Raymond's Rip Kirby and one of the most luxurious.

From the publisher:

May attempts have often been made to publish Alex Raymond's ten-year run on Rip Kirby in book form, but the availability of material necessarily determines the policy of publishers, so that many ships stranded with the harbor in sight. Boumaar Publishers started the first preparations for publishing Alex Raymond's Rip Kirby in 1988. Ten years later (!) it is finally happening.

The newspaper strips were obtained from the archives of King Features in New York, supplemented with photos from the Royal Library. All strips were scanned and edited with Adobe Photoshop, the layout in Quark Express. The eight-part series will be published within one year and contain a total of 39 stories. The last story is finished by John Prentice.