On sale date: July 5, 2011
High adventure on the high seas!
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.”
Praise
"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
"In heaven! Master storytelling!" — Mike Allred - Madman, iZombie
Specs
- Pages
- 144
- Format
- Hardback
- Color
- Full-color.
- Dimensions
- 10.8" × 15"
- ISBN-13
- 9781606993910