Fleetway Picture Library Classics comic books issue 1
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Published Mar 2021 by Book Palace.$20.99
1st printing.
Art by Philip Mendoza, Reg Bunn, Robert Forrest, and John Millar Watt. Cover by Sep E. Scott. Introduction by David Ashford.
In The Rogue's Moon Philip Mendoza splendidly captures the brutality and mendaciousness of cut-throat pirates. Reg Bunn's Captain Kidd of the Spanish Main has the feel of good, old-fashioned swashbuckling adventure.
In The Sea Hawk, Robert Forrest brings the world of the Barbary pirates to fierce, vigorous life. The Fortunes of Captain Blood was John Millar Watt's very first adventure strip.
Originally published in Thriller Picture Library issues 66, 105, 108 and 145, these four tales are rendered by four very different artists.
Softcover, 272 pages, B&W.
NOTE: Limited to 500 copies.
Cover price $34.99. -
Published Mar 2021 by Book Palace.$20.99
1st printing.
Art by Ruggero Giovannini. Cover by Jordi Penalva. Introduction by Diego Cordoba.
All four of the stories in this collection were drawn by the great Ruggero Giovannini and were originally published in Thriller Picture Library. Today, Giovannini is mainly remembered in England for the many western, adventure and historical comic strips he drew in a realistic style, packed with plenty of action on each page. His style, inspired by Milton Caniff and Will "Red Barry" Gould, has a way of telling a story which is fast-paced, occasionally using heavy shadows, and accompanied with his quickly rendered, yet effective, inking.
Softcover, 272 pages, B&W.
NOTE: Limited to 500 copies.
Cover price $34.99.
