Author: Dale Messick Publisher: ISBN: 9781613450383 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 0
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Before Fredric Wertham and The Seduction of the Innocent (SOTI), before the Kefauver Hearings, and before the infamous Comics Code, the comic book racks at local drug stores and newsstands boasted a plethora of delights highlighted by the good girl adventures of the comic book version of Brenda Starr. These four-color wonders displayed all the finer things loved by comic books buyers: good girls, bondage, a little torture, and other exciting things, which adults thought would corrupt the morals of young and impressionable readers (Brenda Starr cover art was even used as an example in SOTI). Now for the first time in over fifty years comics fans can read and own these rare comics from another era, digitally restored to perfection and presented in an archival hardcover. In addition to presenting all of the Brenda Starr stories, this reprint also boasts all of the scintillating back-up features found in these books as well. WARNING! These stories are not for the faint of heart! Thie volume collects the first eight issues of the Superior Comics Brenda Starr Pre-Code comics with art by Jack Kamen and Matt Baker, complete with a historic essay and documentary material.
Author: Trina Robbins Publisher: ISBN: 9781613450956 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 0
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During the Golden Age of comics, publishers offered titles supporting the war effort -- presenting fighting men and their feminine counterparts -- babes in arms! Comic books during this period featured US service-women fighting all of the axis bad guys and gave several of the most noteworthy women artists of the era opportunities to create action-packed, adventure-filled, four-color stories. Now for the first time renowned pop-culture historian Trina Robbins assembles comic book stories by artists Barbara Hall, Jill Elgin, Lilly Renee, and Fran Hopper together with insightful commentary and loads of documentary extras to create the definitive book chronicling the work of these important Golden Age artists. This magnificent art book offers page-after-page of good girl action!
Author: Nell Brinkley Publisher: Fantagraphics Books ISBN: 1560979704 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 138
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For over thirty years Nell Brinkley’s beautiful girls pirouetted, waltzed, Charlestoned, vamped and shimmied their way through the pages of William Randolph Hearst’s newspapers, captivating the American public with their innocent sexuality. This sumptuously designed oversized hardcover collects Brinkley’s breathtakingly spectacular, exquisitely colored full page art from 1913 to 1940. Here are her earliest silent movie serial-inspired adventure series, “Golden Eyes and Her Hero, Bill;” her almost too romantic series, “Betty and Billy and Their Love Through the Ages;” her snappy flapper comics from the 1920s; her 1937 pulp magazine-inspired “Heroines of Today.” Included are photos of Nell, reproductions of her hitherto unpublished paintings, and an informative introduction by the book’s editor, Trina Robbins. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}
Author: Dale Messick Publisher: ISBN: 9781932563801 Category : Comic books, strips, etc Languages : en Pages : 0
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Hermes Press adds yet another important title to its line-up of classic comic book and comic strip reprints with Brenda Starr, Reporter by Dale Messick: The Collected Daily and Sunday Strips. Created by Dale Messick, the first woman to create, draw, and write a syndicated newspaper strip, Brenda Starr successfully mixed romance, fashion, and adventure into one of the longest running features in newspaper history. Even though the strip will officially end its syndicated run on January 2, 2011, the feature will continue through Hermes Press' reprints of the strip's early years. The first volume of this series will reprint, for the first time, the first two Sunday storylines in full color. Hermes Press is digitally restoring these Sundays so that they look better than when they were first released. Also featured in this volume will be the first "Man of Mystery" story featuring Brenda's love interest, Basil St. John. Brenda Starr, Reporter started as a Sunday-only strip, but by October 22, 1945 a daily version of the feature also appeared. The first daily sequence will also be featured in the first volume of Hermes Press' reprint.
Author: Publisher: Marvel ISBN: 9781302927462 Category : Demonology Languages : en Pages : 0
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More tales of horror in the macabre Marvel manner! The horror-comic boom of the 1970s illuminated the dark corners of the Marvel Universe, revealing a host of fearsome figures! Enter Blade, the vampire hunter! Stake in hand, his bloodlust for bloodsuckers leads him into conflict with Dracula, Morbius and the Legion of the Damned! But why is Blade immune to vampire bites? Those who consume human flesh in the north woods of Canada fall prey to the curse of... the Wendigo! The savage beast with with the haunting cry goes to-to-toe with the Hulk, Wolverine and Alpha Flight! Then meet Satana, soul-stealing daughter of the Devil, banished from Hell! Will the seductive succubus' human side win out over her demonic nature? Find out, together with her brother, Daimon Hellstrom -- plus Spider-Man and a possessed Doctor Strange! Shattered by the traumatic death of his wife, Hodiah Twist retreats into the persona of the world's greatest detective! But his skepticism is put to the test by vampires, werewolves and more! Evil men beware Lilith, daughter of Dracula and Queen of the Undead! Slain by her father, Lilith can possess any woman who hates her own patriarch! And that includes... Kitty Pryde of the X-Men?! War is Hell for John Kowalski! A soldier found guilty of treason, he is cursed to die a thousand times, leaping from life to life, striving to atone for his sins before Death claims him over and over again! Where monsters dwell, so goes Ulysses Bloodstone! Granted immortality by the ruby gem embedded in his chest, he has walked the Earth for millennia, hunting down unholy creatures across the ages! But what 1,000-year-old mission of revenge drives the melancholy merman that men shall call Manphibian? The classic exploits of all these supernatural sensations are collected in a single, spine-tingling volume... as Marvel Horror Lives Again!
Author: Justin Gray Publisher: Titan Books (UK) ISBN: 9781845766290 Category : Bounty hunters Languages : en Pages : 143
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On the rangy plains of the Wild West rides a man named Jonah Hex, who has no companions save two: death itself, and the acrid smell of gunsmoke! Now, for the first time, the awful truth of Jonah Hex?s origin is revealed. Born intohate, to a drunk father and absent mother, he is sold into slavery with the Apache, but betrayed once more. Scarred for life at the hands of the Union Army, disfigured by the tribe he once called friends, there is nothing more for Hex than endless bloody revenge!
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