Strips comic books issue 7

Issue 7 - Nov. 1990. Written and illustrated by Chuck Austen. Adults only. 7-in. x 10-in. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

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Buz Sawyer. Stories, art and cover by Roy Crane. Dragon Lady Press reprints classic comic strips from the Golden Age of comics. Collects the Buz Sawyer daily strip from Dec 27, 1944 to Aug 28, 1945. After escaping from a Japanese submarine, Buz Sawyer learns that a scientific program has predicted that he will be killed in action. The only thing that can save him is a sudden end to the war in the Pacific.... 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Smilin' Jack. Stories, art and cover by Zack Mosley, plus art assists by Boody Rogers. Dragon Lady Press reprints classic comic strips from the Chicago Tribune syndicate. This issue focuses on Zack Mosley's classic aerial adventure strip of the 1930s. Reprints the Smilin' Jack daily strip from Sept. 6, 1939 to March 14, 1940. Jack rescues a beautiful woman from danger, but her identity puts him in even greater danger. Legendary oddball cartoonist Boody Rogers was Mosley's assistant during this period. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Volume 7 - 1st printing. "Pockets Full of Pie (1961-1962)!"

Story and art by Walt Kelly. Foreword by Sergio Aragones.

This series represents the first time Pogo has been collected complete and in chronological order anywhere, presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper section, as well as gorgeous black-and-white reproductions of Kelly's elegant dailies.

This volume includes a pig with an ominous resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev and a scruffy goat who looks exactly like Fidel Castro. Both assure Okefenokeeans that a one-party system is the way to go; all will be well economically, they explain, because "the shortage will be divided amongst the peasants." Other storylines spotlight Kelly's remarkable cast: Pogo Possum, Albert Alligator, Howland Owl, "Churchy" LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Porky Pine, Miz Ma'm'selle Hepzibah, Deacon Mushrat, and so many others.

All 104 Sunday strips from those two years are included, with supplementary features (including comprehensive annotations and index) by comics historians R.C. Harvey, Maggie Thompson, and Mark Evanier.

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 9-in., 360 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages

Cover price $45.00.

Garth comic strip reprints from 1975 with art by Frank Bellamy. 8-1/8 in. x 11-5/8 in.; black and white; 20 pages on heavy white paper. Published by John Dakin in England.