Brenda Starr comic books issue 1

Stories, art and cover by Dale Messick. ACG Comics reprints stories from pioneering female cartoonist Dale Messicks classic adventure strip, featuring a reporter who gets into more scrapes than Lois Lane. Despite the dangers, she remains something of a fashion plate, giving the strip appeal to both genders. Each page features paper-doll outfits for fans to cut out and dress their Brenda Starr paper dolls. These strips date from May to August 1947. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Features pin-ups from 1947. By Dale Messick. Cover price $2.95.

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Comic Strip Reprints. Brenda Starr. Printed in horizontal format. Measures 6 1/2" x 10 1/4". b&w. 106 pages. Cover price $12.95.

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36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

1st printing. By Dale Messick. Hermes Press adds another important title to its classic comic book and comic strip reprints with Brenda Starr, Reporter: 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, and the reprint volumes begin with the strip's debut on June 30, 1940. Hardcover, 10-in. x 13-in., 288 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $60.00.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. By Jack Kamen and Matt Baker. Before Fredric Wertham and The Seduction of the Innocent, 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 For the first time in over fifty years comics fans can read and own these rare comics from another era. 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! Hardcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 256 pages, full color. Cover price $60.00.

1st printing. Story and Art by Dale Messick. Brenda Starr stars in this adventure based on the long running comic strip. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 254 pages, B&W.

Reprints Brenda Starr newspaper daily strips including the first "Mystery Man" story, various Brenda Star pin-up pages and a newspaper article about Dale Messick, the female creator of Brenda Starr. Introduction by Shel Dorf. Squarebound, standard comic book size, 76-pages, color cover with black-and white interior. Cover price $5.95.

Volume 1 – 1st printing. Stories by Dale Messick, plus introductions by Shel Dorf and Milton Caniff. Art by Dale Messick. Cover by Dale Messick. The adventures of redheaded ace reporter Brenda Starr, who is sort of Lois Lane without the Superman. This reprints Brenda Starr newspaper daily strips, including The Strange Case of the Beastly Twins and the first "Mystery Man" story, plus Brenda Starr pin-up pages and a profile of Dale Messick, the female creator of Brenda Starr. Big-Time Traditions; Brenda Starr Reporter; The Reuben. Hardcover, 72 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95. Cover price $14.95.