(March 2010)
Fantagraphics,
2010 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 39.99 USD
- Pages
- 152
- On-sale Date
- 2010-05
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books
- Brand
-
FB
- ISBN
-
978-1-60699-161-9
- Barcode
- 9781606991619
- Editing
- Rick Norwood; Gary Groth (Editorial Liaison)
Foreword
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Reprints
-
from Wash Tubbs (Luna Press, 1974 series) (1974)
-
Indexer Notes
includes a reprint of the 1/10/1971 Peanuts strip
Preface
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
Includes a sample Wash Tubbs Sunday strip (undated), a sample Wash Tubbs daily strip (undated), and the first two Buz Sawyer daily strips (1943).
introduction
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 5 pages
- Synopsis
- Biography of Roy Crane
Indexer Notes
Includes reproductions of Wash Tubbs press releases, Roy Crane Christmas Card, some Crane sketches, and an unpublished Frank Battle Sunday strip.
Gungshi
Captain Easy / comic story / 26 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Captain Easy
- Synopsis
- Easy is stranded while scouting out a lost Chinese province. He is captured, escaped, and eludes pursuit by several parties, eventually rescuing the mogul of the province and earning a large treasure.
- Reprints
- from Captain Easy Sunday (NEA Service) 1933.07.30-1934.01.14
- Keywords
- bandits; China; harems; hidden valley; lost cities; lost world; mountains; Orient
Indexer Notes
strips reproduced from color scans from Sunday newspapers, original colorists unknown.
The Slave Girl
Captain Easy / comic story / 32 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Captain Easy; the Mogul; Rose Petal; The Emir; Rambling Jack; Gharbish Kahn
- Synopsis
- Easy rescues a girl from the slave market, then flees the city with the girl and his treasure. They make their way back to her homeland, escaping pursuing soldiers, pirates, bandits, and a warlord. Easy helps Rose Petal's father, the emir, against a local warlord, and encounters a stranded British pilot, with whom he leaves.
- Reprints
- from Captain Easy Sunday (NEA Service) 1934.01.21-1934.08.19
- Keywords
- bandits; China; desert; hidden valley; jungle; lost city; lost world; Orient; pirates; warlords
Indexer Notes
reproduced from color scans of Sunday strips; original colorists unknown.
The Sunken City
Captain Easy / comic story / 34 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Captain Easy; Harry Pippy; Wogga Zazula
- Synopsis
- On his way back to India, Easy spots a sunken city. Recruiting an assistant, Harry Pippy, he returns to the area to try to salvage treasure from the city. They encounter trouble from local tribesmen, sea creatures beneath the lake, and a local witch, but eventually he and Pippy escape by sea.
- Reprints
- from Captain Easy Sunday (NEA Service) 1934.08.26-1935.04.07
- Keywords
- jungle; lost world; Orient; sunken city
Indexer Notes
Reproduced from color scans of Sunday strips; original colorists unknown.
Pirates
Captain Easy / comic story / 14 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Captain Easy; Harry Pippy; Lark Song; Gum Chew; Wogga Zazula
- Synopsis
- Easy and Pippy land on an island being besieged by pirates. After several skirmishes, he is able to pit them against Wogga Zazula and her tribe, who have followed Easy and Pippy to the island. The pirates drive off Wogga Zazula and her tribe at great cost to themselves, and are in turn overthrown by Easy, Pippy, and the island natives. Easy and Pippy make it back to their plane and return to India.
- Reprints
- from Captain Easy Sunday (NEA Service) 1935.04.14-1935.07.07
- Keywords
- island; jungles; pirates; swamps
Indexer Notes
reproduced from color scans of Sunday strips; original colorist(s) unknown.
The Princess
Captain Easy / comic story / 22 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Captain Easy; Harry Pippin; Princess Marta of Nikkateena; Czar of Nikkateena; Count Heyloff; Col. Winterkoff
- Synopsis
- Easy falls for a girl who turns out to be the princess of Nikkateena. Rescuing her from the unwanted attentions of Count Heyloff, he escorts her back to Nikkateena. Heyloff follows and arranges a war between Nikkateena and a neighboring country, hoping to get Easy killed and to blackmail the czar into making the princess marry Heyloff. But Easy becomes a war hero instead, and turns the tables on Heyloff, who is killed as a traitor. Overwhelmed by the hero worship of the citizenry, he hops a freight train out of the country.
- Reprints
- from Captain Easy Sunday (NEA Service) 1935.07.14-1935.12.01
- Keywords
- aircraft; duels; war
Indexer Notes
reproduced from color scans of Sunday strips; original colorists unknown.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Captain Easy -
1.
Foreword
-
2.
Preface
-
3.
introduction
-
4.
Gungshi
Captain Easy -
5.
The Slave Girl
Captain Easy -
6.
The Sunken City
Captain Easy -
7.
Pirates
Captain Easy -
8.
The Princess
Captain Easy -
9.
Coloring Notes
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Stangas
- Lionel English
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