Roy Crane is one of America’s greatest cartoonists and Fantagraphics is embarking upon an ambitious reprinting of his best work, beginning with his gorgeous adventure strip—Captain Easy.\ Crane created the first American adventure strip — before Hal Foster’s \ Tarzan and Prince Valiant, before Milton Caniff’s Terry and the Pirates, before Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon—and quickly established himself as a master of the comic strip. Begun in 1924 under the eponymous title Wash Tubbs, within four...
The grandest adventure strip of all time gets the deluxe treatment!