- Presenting the first volume of Alex Raymond&s modernist classic Rip Kirby from its start in 1946 Created by Alex Raymond when he was deactivated from the Marines after World War II Rip Kirby was a fresh approach to the genre a departure from the prevailing hard-boiled style of detective fiction Rip Kirby was urbane & cerebral & used scientific methods as often as he used his fists when solving crimes & mysteries
- Edited & designed by Eisner Award-winner Dean Mullaney the strips are reproduced from pristine syndicate proofs that will allow readers to see for the first time the full luxurious detail of Raymond&s brushwork
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Includes:: a biographical & historic essay by Brian Walker & an introduction by Raymond biographer & authority Tom Roberts -The Library of American Comics is the world&s 1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips with 14 Eisner Award nominations & three wins for best book LOAC has become "the gold standard for archival comic strip reprints The research & articles provide insight & context & most importantly the glorious reproduction of the material has preserved these strips for those who knew them & offers a new gateway to adventure for those discovering them for the first time"
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In this sixth volume Rip Kirby enters the Swinging Sixties & artist John Prentice has made the strip completely his own He would soon receive the National Cartoonist Society award for Story Strip Cartoonist in 1966 & 1967 Fred Dickenson who had been writing the strip with series originator Alex Raymond keeps the continuity going for Prentice&s exquisite art The strips are reproduced from the original King Features Syndicate proofs insuring that every daily will look even better than when they were first published in newspapers over fifty years ago ...

Rip Kirby&s adventures continue! In these eleven complete stories Rip Kirby&s escapades take him to all parts of the globe on land & sea & even
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- on a space ship to the future! The suave detective mixes it up with more stunning beauties sleazy blackmailers & vicious murderers drawn in John Prentice&s slick award-winning photo-realistic style The strips are reproduced from the original King Features Syndicate proofs insuring that every daily will look even better than when it was first published in newspapers over fifty years ago Containing more than 800 sequential comics from October 10 1964 to July 8 1967!

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John Prentice won the National Cartoonists Society award for ‘ Best Story Strip Cartoonist’ in 1967 proving that the adventure strip could still capture the public’s imagination Similarly Rip Kirby that debonair gentleman detective proved that style & class still counted among the sexy jet-set In these nine complete stories Rip must prevent Mr Monarch from selling a super-secret missile defense system to the highest bidder tries to keep ‘ The Shark’ from stealing nearly a quarter million dollars is hired protect a gorgeous movie star from kidnapping & in a bizarre twist faithful Desmond is hypnotized into reverting to his former occupation as safecracker with Rip as his victim The strips are reproduced from the original King Features Syndicate proofs insuring that every daily will look even better than when it was first published in newspapers over fifty years ago ...

While investigating crimes on both sides of the Atlantic the urbanedetective encounters beautiful & conniving women menacing men jewel thievespickpockets ex-Nazis rich debutantes spoiled heirs kleptomaniac motherssmall town gossips a fake Yogi named " The Great You" his recurring nemesis- the Mangler
- & more than a murder or two Meanwhile thetension builds in his love triangle with Honey Dorian & Pagan Lee The second volume of Alex Raymond&s modernist classic Rip Kirbycontains nearly three years of strips from December 6 1948 through September 22 1951 all drawn in Raymond&s incredibly lush style Edited & designed by Eisner Award-winner Dean Mullaney with abiographical & historical essay by Brian Walker & an introduction by Howard Chaykin -The Library of American Comicsis the world&s 1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips with 14 Eisner Award nominations & three wins for best book LOAC has become "the goldstandard for archival comic strip reprints The research & articles provideinsight & context & most importantly the glorious reproduction of thematerial has preserved these strips for those who knew them & offers a newgateway to adventure for those discovering them for the first time" -Scoop
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To catch an enemy with nothing to lose Liz Carlyle must venture into dangerous waters When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast & one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames House MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is brought in to establish how & why a young British Muslim could go missing from his well-to-do family in Birmingham & end up onboard a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean armed with a Kalashnikov After an undercover operative connected to the case turns up dead in the shipping office of an NGO in Athens it looks like piracy may be the least of the Service's problems Liz & her team must unravel the connections between Pakistan Greece & Somalia relying on their wits
- & the judicious use of force
- to get to the truth & they don't have long as trouble is brewing closer to home the kind of explosive trouble that MI5 could do without Stella Rimington former Director General of MI5 returns with a tense & heart-stopping spy thriller where the secrets are deep the stakes are high & the enemy is always just out of sight

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Series 12 of Neca’s bestselling Aliens action figures is themed to the events that occur in Hadley’s Hope during Aliens & continues their 30th Anniversary celebration NECA Aliens Series 12
- Lt Ellen Ripley Bomber Jacket 7" Figure Officially licensed
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From Alien 40th Ripley in Spacesuit as a stylized POP vinyl from Funko! Figure stands 3 34 inches & comes in a window display box Check out the other Alien 40th figures from Funko! Collect them all! ...

The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake It is of course & he wants to talk to Derwatt but Derwatt inconveniently is dead Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in the fraud a secret & his reputation clean but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his Especially when it comes to murder ...

Ripley's is back with another compendium of mind-boggling facts that will delight anyone drawn to the weirder side of life on Earth The woman who can smash 920 roof tiles every minute
- with her bare hands YUCK! 256 pages
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