Library of American Comics Essentials HC (2012- IDW) comic books
-
Issue #4-1ST
Published Jan 2014 by IDW Publishing.$11.75
Volume 4 - 1st printing. "1939: Alley Oop: The First Time Travel Adventure!"
Story and Art by VT Hamlin.
In 1939, Vincent Trout Hamlin had been writing and drawing the successful Alley Oop for more than five years. In Alley Oop, Hamlin created a unique concept, marrying his fascination with dinosaurs and prehistoric times to a rollicking style of storytelling and drawing that was simultaneously serious, fantastic, and loaded with slapstick. The series was set in the kingdom of Moo and starred Alley Oop, the club-wielding caveman, his girlfriend Ooola, friends Dinny the dinosaur and Foozy, and more! This volume features Oop's final Moo adventure, followed by his trips to the 20th Century and ancient Greece. Hamlin would send his characters everywhere and everywhen - but the classic Alley Oop begins with the stories contained in this volume.
Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11 1/2-in. x 4 1/2-in., 336 pages, B&W.
Cover price $24.99. -
Issue #10-1ST
Published Apr 2017 by IDW Publishing.$7.99
Volume 10 - 1st printing. "1933: Detective Dan, Secret Operative 48!"
Story and Art by Norman Marsh.
Considered the first comic book with original material ever produced, 1933's "Detective Dan, Secret Op. 48" was a landmark. It only lasted one issue before morphing into the Dan Dunn newspaper strip. A blatant copy of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy (Norman Marsh had been an art assistant to Gould), Dan Dunn was a rough and tumble Secret Service agent who exacted violent retribution on any criminal who dared cross his path. This book reprints the entire first year of daily comics.
Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11 1/2-in. x 4 1/2-in., 344 pages, B&W.
Cover price $29.99.
