Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips #1
This handsome hardcover from Fantagraphics collects Roy Crane's complete Sunday newspaper strips from 1933–1935, gathering the earliest adventures of Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune, in one authoritative volume. The cover label gives a lively taste of Crane's energetic draftsmanship — a brawling scene of colorful figures mid-scuffle, complete with a punchy "Sok!" sound effect that captures the strip's irresistible blend of action and humor. For anyone who appreciates the craft behind adventure comics, having all of Crane's own writing, drawing, inking, and lettering assembled in sequence is a genuine treat.
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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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