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RIP KIRBY Volume 10

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Special Order - takes 3-4 weeks! 1970-73. Recommended. By Fred Dickenson. Illustrated by John Prentice. The longest-running modern adventure strip continues in thirteen new stories starring the debonair private detective, first created by Alex Raymond. More than 800 sequential comics from April 27, 1970 to January 20, 1973 reproduced from the original King Features Syndicate proofs, insuring that every daily will look even better than when it was first published. Prentice continues his superb work, carrying on the fine line style and exciting storytelling that Alex Raymond began.

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The longest-running modern adventure strip continues in thirteen new stories starring the debonair private detective, first created by Alex Raymond. More than 800 sequential comics from April 27, 1970 to January 20, 1973 reproduced from the original King Features Syndicate proofs, insuring that every daily will look even better than when it was first published. Prentice continues his superb work, carrying on the fine line style and exciting storytelling that Alex Raymond began.

"John Prentice's work is superb. He's one of the few cartoonists who took an important strip by a great cartoonist and did it not only justice, but in some ways, was as good as--and in some cases better than--the originator." Tom De Haven, author of the Derby Dugan trilogy

New introduction by Bruce Canwell, who celebrates the 25th anniversary of the strip by talking about its long history and how, even in a world over-flowing with detectives and sleuths, Rip Kirby remained popular and exciting.

Like a James Bond who uses primarily brains instead of brawn, Rip meets the most fascinating characters and gets wrapped up in daring adventures one after another. An aging movie starlet is threatened; there is adventure outside the country; brilliant but twisted criminals meet their match...

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