Book Review: Rip Kirby Volume 1

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Rip Kirby, was a daily Comic strip, created by Alex Raymond, better known for Flash Gordon, the comic tells the story of private detective Rip Kirby, who solves mysteries and pursues criminals with the aid of his valet Desmond, his girlfriend Honey Dorian, and ex-crook Pagan lee.

This Volume collect Comic strips from 1946-1958
This book contains about 280 pages of black and white comic pages, Introductions written by Tom Roberts and Brian Walker and a few development illustrations
I highly recommend this book to any one who is interested in 40-50’s comic strips, this one is the best there is, and worth the 30 bucks

available in Amazon, and so are volumes 2 and 3:
Amazon (US | CA | UK | FR | DE | JP), Bookdepository (US | UK)


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