Captain Easy comic books issue 1
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Issue #1-1ST
Published 1987 by Flying Buttress.$5.99
Volume 1 - 1st printing. "1924-1925!" The Complete Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy by Roy Crane were published by the Flying Buttress Classics Library. Born in 1901 in Abilene, Texas, Royston Crane's creation Wash Tubbs was launched on Monday, April 21, 1924. Widely considered to be one of the first great adventure strips, Wash Tubbs was a small fellow with big spectacles who quickly emerged as a slang-slinging, girl-chasing opportunist. Soon Tubbs would be joined by Captain Easy the classic soldier of fortune. Easy was a wanderer, boxer, cook, aviator, seaman, explorer, and soldier. Gil Kane, before an audience at the San Diego Comic Convention once stated that Superman and Batman were both comparable to Easy. Volume 1 (1924-1925) reprints Crane's classic comic strips with an introduction by Bill Blackbeard. Wash heads to the South Seas in search of buried treasure. Softcover, (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 192 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.
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Issue #1
$14.50
View scan- 1 1/2" cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation with chipping. Water spotting.
Cover by Leslie Turner. Stories and art by Leslie Turner and William Ferguson. Argo reprints the classic comic strip created by Roy Crane, featuring adventures of the vagabond adventurer during the Leslie Turner era. After the war, Easy becomes a private detective, and Doris Frayne is being blackmailed. On a fishing vacation, Easy overhears another detective checking into Doris's past, and decides to get involved after he meets Doris's young son Bobby. Plus the Ripley-like This Curious World. Captain Easy; Righterong; The Desperate Men; This Curious World. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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