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Issue: Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips #1
Publication Date: March 2010
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Issues: #1 of 4 Issues
Title: 1933-1935
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
Brand: FBView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
On Sale Date: 05/2010
Volume: 1
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9781606991619
UPC/EAN: 9781606991619
Price: $39.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 10 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Rick Norwood; Gary Groth (Editorial Liaison)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: four color
Dimensions: 10.5" x 14.7"
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Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: limited series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Roy Crane
Inker(s): Roy Crane
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Easy
Character(s): Captain Easy; Harry Pippy; Count Heyloff; Princess Marta
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: spot illustration from the 7/14/1935 strip.
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Foreword

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Charles M. Schulz
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: includes a reprint of the 1/10/1971 Peanuts strip
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Preface

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Rick Norwood
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Includes a sample Wash Tubbs Sunday strip (undated), a sample Wash Tubbs daily strip (undated), and the first two Buz Sawyer daily strips (1943).
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introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jeet Heer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Biography of Roy Crane
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Includes reproductions of Wash Tubbs press releases, Roy Crane Christmas Card, some Crane sketches, and an unpublished Frank Battle Sunday strip.
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Gungshi

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Crane
Penciller(s): Roy Crane
Inker(s): Roy Crane
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Roy Crane ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Easy
Character(s): Captain Easy
Synopsis: Easy is stranded while scouting out a lost Chinese province. He is captured, escaped, and eludes pursuit by several parties, eventually rescuing the mogul of the province and earning a large treasure.
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Reprint Notes: from Captain Easy Sunday (NEA Service) 1933.07.30-1934.01.14
Miscellaneous
Pages: 26
Disclose Notes: strips reproduced from color scans from Sunday newspapers, original colorists unknown.
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The Slave Girl

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Crane
Penciller(s): Roy Crane
Inker(s): Roy Crane
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Roy Crane ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Easy
Character(s): Captain Easy; the Mogul; Rose Petal; The Emir; Rambling Jack; Gharbish Kahn
Synopsis: Easy rescues a girl from the slave market, then flees the city with the girl and his treasure. They make their way back to her homeland, escaping pursuing soldiers, pirates, bandits, and a warlord. Easy helps Rose Petal's father, the emir, against a local warlord, and encounters a stranded British pilot, with whom he leaves.
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Reprint Notes: from Captain Easy Sunday (NEA Service) 1934.01.21-1934.08.19
Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: reproduced from color scans of Sunday strips; original colorists unknown.
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The Sunken City

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Crane
Penciller(s): Roy Crane
Inker(s): Roy Crane
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Roy Crane ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Easy
Character(s): Captain Easy; Harry Pippy; Wogga Zazula
Synopsis: On his way back to India, Easy spots a sunken city. Recruiting an assistant, Harry Pippy, he returns to the area to try to salvage treasure from the city. They encounter trouble from local tribesmen, sea creatures beneath the lake, and a local witch, but eventually he and Pippy escape by sea.
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Reprint Notes: from Captain Easy Sunday (NEA Service) 1934.08.26-1935.04.07
Miscellaneous
Pages: 34
Disclose Notes: Reproduced from color scans of Sunday strips; original colorists unknown.
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Pirates

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Crane
Penciller(s): Roy Crane
Inker(s): Roy Crane
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Roy Crane ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Easy
Character(s): Captain Easy; Harry Pippy; Lark Song; Gum Chew; Wogga Zazula
Synopsis: Easy and Pippy land on an island being besieged by pirates. After several skirmishes, he is able to pit them against Wogga Zazula and her tribe, who have followed Easy and Pippy to the island. The pirates drive off Wogga Zazula and her tribe at great cost to themselves, and are in turn overthrown by Easy, Pippy, and the island natives. Easy and Pippy make it back to their plane and return to India.
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Reprint Notes: from Captain Easy Sunday (NEA Service) 1935.04.14-1935.07.07
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: reproduced from color scans of Sunday strips; original colorist(s) unknown.
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The Princess

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Crane
Penciller(s): Roy Crane
Inker(s): Roy Crane
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Roy Crane ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Easy
Character(s): Captain Easy; Harry Pippin; Princess Marta of Nikkateena; Czar of Nikkateena; Count Heyloff; Col. Winterkoff
Synopsis: Easy falls for a girl who turns out to be the princess of Nikkateena. Rescuing her from the unwanted attentions of Count Heyloff, he escorts her back to Nikkateena. Heyloff follows and arranges a war between Nikkateena and a neighboring country, hoping to get Easy killed and to blackmail the czar into making the princess marry Heyloff. But Easy becomes a war hero instead, and turns the tables on Heyloff, who is killed as a traitor. Overwhelmed by the hero worship of the citizenry, he hops a freight train out of the country.
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Reprint Notes: from Captain Easy Sunday (NEA Service) 1935.07.14-1935.12.01
Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: reproduced from color scans of Sunday strips; original colorists unknown.
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Coloring Notes

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Rick Norwood
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: description of how newspaper Sundays were colored, with sample pages
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Pages: 4

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