Captain Easy comic books issue 1

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "1924-1925!" The Complete Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy by Roy Crane were published by the Flying Buttress Classics Library. Born in 1901 in Abilene, Texas, Royston Crane's creation Wash Tubbs was launched on Monday, April 21, 1924. Widely considered to be one of the first great adventure strips, Wash Tubbs was a small fellow with big spectacles who quickly emerged as a slang-slinging, girl-chasing opportunist. Soon Tubbs would be joined by Captain Easy the classic soldier of fortune. Easy was a wanderer, boxer, cook, aviator, seaman, explorer, and soldier. Gil Kane, before an audience at the San Diego Comic Convention once stated that Superman and Batman were both comparable to Easy. Volume 1 (1924-1925) reprints Crane's classic comic strips with an introduction by Bill Blackbeard. Wash heads to the South Seas in search of buried treasure. Softcover, (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 192 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

Volume 1 - 2nd or later printing. "1924-1925!" The Complete Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy by Roy Crane were published by the Flying Buttress Classics Library. Born in 1901 in Abilene, Texas, Royston Crane's creation Wash Tubbs was launched on Monday, April 21, 1924. Widely considered to be one of the first great adventure strips, Wash Tubbs was a small fellow with big spectacles who quickly emerged as a slang-slinging, girl-chasing opportunist. Soon Tubbs would be joined by Captain Easy the classic soldier of fortune. Easy was a wanderer, boxer, cook, aviator, seaman, explorer, and soldier. Gil Kane, before an audience at the San Diego Comic Convention once stated that Superman and Batman were both comparable to Easy. Volume 1 (1924-1925) reprints Crane's classic comic strips with an introduction by Bill Blackbeard. Wash heads to the South Seas in search of buried treasure. Softcover, (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 192 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Soldier of Fortune!" By Roy Crane. Roy Crane is a GIANT among cartoonists and Fantagraphics is embarking upon an ambitious collection of his best work within CAPTAIN EASY, SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. Dig in and bask in the radiance of these FULL COLOR, prismatic Sunday strips! Discover with each page a buried treasure of adventure and chicanery replete with Crane's mastery of comics storytelling. Citing Crane's influence on comics, the artist Gil Kane once said, "Superman was Captain Easy; Batman was Captain Easy." BEWARE! Beautiful women! Pirates! Sunken ships! And fun! fun! FUN! are barely contained within this beautiful package brought to you by Fantagraphics, the torchbearer of quality when it comes to classic comic strip reprints. Hardcover, 10 1/2-in. x 14 1/2-in., 160 pages, full color. Cover price $39.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Roy Crane. Following our Eisner Award-nominated series of Captain Easy Sunday strip collections, we have selected the very best of the daily comic strip adventures of Easy and Wash Tubbs. Featuring Wash running a railroad in a comic-opera version of Eastern Europe, Easy waging total war against The Phantom King, battles with pirates and our heroes as prisoners on the infamous Devil's Island. Roy Crane mixes imagination, romance, and thrills in a masterful style that entices you always to the next thrill-packed adventure! Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 9-in., 320 pages, B&W. Cover price $39.99.

Cover by Leslie Turner. Stories and art by Leslie Turner and William Ferguson. Argo reprints the classic comic strip created by Roy Crane, featuring adventures of the vagabond adventurer during the Leslie Turner era. After the war, Easy becomes a private detective, and Doris Frayne is being blackmailed. On a fishing vacation, Easy overhears another detective checking into Doris's past, and decides to get involved after he meets Doris's young son Bobby. Plus the Ripley-like This Curious World. Captain Easy; Righterong; The Desperate Men; This Curious World. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Captain Easy in A Soldier of Fortune turns Madame" by Phillip McKwiff - This item commonly known as a Tijuana Bible; most were published ca. 1920s-1940s. The artists, writers, and publishers of these booklets are generally unknown. Most 8-Pagers are humorous takes on newspaper comic strip characters, movie stars, and political figures of the time, usually in sexually explicit situations, and invariably produced without permission or respect for copyright. These are timeless pieces of American comic sub-culture and are often considered the precursor to the underground comics created by the likes of Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton. Due to the circumstances in which these items were originally created, it is virtually impossible to determine edition and printing, although modern era reprints are usually easily identifiable. We will note these differences to the best of our ability. Not available for international sale. You must be 18 or older to order this item. 3.5-in x 2.5-in, 12 pages, B&W.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "1924-1925!" The Complete Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy by Roy Crane were published by the Flying Buttress Classics Library. Born in 1901 in Abilene, Texas, Royston Crane's creation Wash Tubbs was launched on Monday, April 21, 1924. Widely considered to be one of the first great adventure strips, Wash Tubbs was a small fellow with big spectacles who quickly emerged as a slang-slinging, girl-chasing opportunist. Soon Tubbs would be joined by Captain Easy the classic soldier of fortune. Easy was a wanderer, boxer, cook, aviator, seaman, explorer, and soldier. Gil Kane, before an audience at the San Diego Comic Convention once stated that Superman and Batman were both comparable to Easy. Volume 1 (1924-1925) reprints Crane's classic comic strips with an introduction by Bill Blackbeard. Wash heads to the South Seas in search of buried treasure. Hardcover, (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 192 pages, B&W. Cover price $32.50.