Alley Oop: The First Time-Travel Adventures 1939–1942 #[nn]

This handsome hardcover collects V.T. Hamlin's syndicated strip adventures from 1939 to 1942, gathering the era when Alley Oop first leapt through time into history's wildest corners. The cover showcases that range beautifully — five vivid panels surround a central scene of Alley Oop and a companion stepping through a time machine, with surrounding vignettes placing the club-wielding caveman amid a dragon-riding knight, an ancient warrior confronting a grotesque cyclops-like creature, an elaborately helmeted figure reclining with a regal woman, and a swashbuckling lady brandishing a rifle on a ship's deck. Manuscript Press has done readers a real service assembling these strips in one place — a genuinely satisfying way to experience Hamlin's witty, globe-and-era-hopping storytelling in 2024.