Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune (v. 1)

Roy Crane created the first American adventure strip: Wash Tubbs. The character Captain Easy spun off into his own Sunday page in 1933, and Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips Vol. 1 collects these full-color strips from that point until 1935. In Volume One, Captain Easy visits a lost city, battles pirates, dons a diving suit in search of treasure; everywhere he goes, he finds beautiful women. Captain Easy not only influenced roles for the likes of Hollywood actors such as Cary Grant or Errol Flynn, he influenced virtually every comics hero who followed him - Gil Kane once said "Superman was Captain Easy; Batman was Captain Easy." Crane combined adventure and humor in a Bigfoot cartooning style: according to comic-strip historian Richard Marschall, Crane "develop[ed] expressive techniques and a whole dictionary of conventions and signs for future comic strip artists.

ISBN 1606991612   Pages 160 ISBN13 9781606991619 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Fantagraphics   Weight (grammes) 1343 Imprint Fantagraphics   Published in Seattle Format Hardback   Height (mm) 374 Publication date 27 May 2010   Width (mm) 267 Library of Congress PN6710   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 741.5973   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

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