It Rhymes with Lust

(March 2007)

[Title Page] (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Letters

? (original); Amy Arendts (reprint) (Design); Jason Hvam (Production); ?

Reprints

• from It Rhymes with Lust (St. John, 1950 series) (1950)

Indexer Notes

Original title page is reproduced with Dark Horse Books logo.

[Edition Notice] (Table of Contents: 2)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

It Rhymes with Lust (Table of Contents: 3)

It Rhymes with Lust / comic story / 126 pages (report information)

Script

Arnold Drake [as Drake Waller]; Leslie Waller [as Drake Waller]

Pencils

Matt Baker

Inks

Ray Osrin

Letters

Jason Hvam (Production); ?

Editing

? (original edition)

Genre

romance

Characters

Hal Weber; McPhee; Rust Masson; Audrey Masson; Monk Shirl; Arthur Masson [Buck Masson] (images only); Marcus Jeffers; Jimmy Sloan; Tiny Shirl

Synopsis

Hal Weber, one-time crusading journalist, is summoned to Copper City by his old flame Rust after the death of her husband, mining magnate and political heavyweight Arthur "Buck" Masson. As editor of The Express, a newspaper with an anti-Masson stance secretly owned by Rust, Hal is drawn back to her even as he falls for her stepdaughter Audrey. The situation in Copper City soon literally becomes explosive, with Hal having to choose between Rust and Audrey, the bottle and his conscience, safety and the truth.

Reprints

• from It Rhymes with Lust (St. John, 1950 series) (1950)

Keywords

blackmail; bombing; melodrama; mine collapse; political intrigue; political machine

Indexer Notes

Story pages numbered 3 through 128. There is no discrete Chapter 1 title. Chapter 2, Caught in the Web, begins on 25. Chapter 3, Deadly Female, begins on 45. Chapter 4, Indecision, begins on 69. Chapter 5, The Counterplot, begins on 89. Chapter 6, The Serpent Coils, begins on 109.

Afterword: The Graphic Novel -- And How It Grew (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Arnold Drake (article); Frans Masereel (excerpt); Harvey Kurtzman (excerpt); Will Eisner (excerpt); George Metzger (excerpt)

Pencils

Frans Masereel (excerpt); Harvey Kurtzman (excerpt); Will Eisner (excerpt); Milt Gross (excerpt); George Metzger (excerpt)

Inks

Frans Masereel (excerpt); Harvey Kurtzman (excerpt); Will Eisner (excerpt); Milt Gross (excerpt); George Metzger (excerpt)

Letters

Amy Arendts (Design); Jason Hvam (Production); typeset (article); Harvey Kurtzman (excerpt); Will Eisner (excerpt); George Metzger (excerpt)

Synopsis

Drake traces the history of long-form comics, including the 1949 creation of It Rhymes with Lust.

Indexer Notes

Afterword copyright 2007 Arnold Drake per indicia. Excerpts are woodcuts from Masereel's Private Journey, published in 1919 as Mon livre d'heures; a page from Kurtzman's 1959 Jungle Book; a page from Eisner's 1979 A Contract with God; the cover to the 1963 edition of Gross' He Done Her Wrong; and a sequence from Metzger's 1976 Beyond Time and Again. Copyright is attributed for all excerpts, which were reduced for publication.

Arnold Drake (Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 1.25 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

Amy Arendts (Design); typeset

Genre

biography

Leslie Waller (Table of Contents: 6)

text article / 0.75 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

Amy Arendts (Design); typeset

Genre

biography

Matt Baker (Table of Contents: 7)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

Amy Arendts (Design); typeset

Genre

biography

[Cast of Characters] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

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