CAPTAIN EASY HC (2025)

"by Roy Crane 10.5 x 14.75, HC, 160 pages, FC, $35.00 Roy Crane is a GIANT among cartoonists and Fantagraphics is embarking upon an ambitious reprinting of his best work within CAPTAIN EASY, SOLDIER OF FORTURNE. 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."

"In Captain Easy Vol. 2: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips, Roy Crane's Soldier of Fortune, Captain Easy, fights for gold in the frozen north, is mistaken for a bandit, protects a formula for artificial diamonds, is stranded on a desert island, visits the tiny Balkan country of Kleptomania, and faces a firing squad. Captain Easy hobnobs with millionaires and bums and beautiful girls (of course), and winds up in the middle of a full-scale war. In short, it's another rousing series of adventure and humor encapsulating the gallantry, derring-do, and rough-and-tumble innocence of a bygone era and a bygone genre, written and drawn with panache, and practically painted in a vibrant spectrum of colors that you have to see to believe."

"The third volume in Fantagraphics' ongoing reprint of Roy Crane's legendary actioncomedy comic strip features what many consider the absolute peak of the series: 'Temple of the Swinks.' This, plus other rollicking stories of high adventure featuring (inevitably) pirates and (just as inevitably) beautiful women, all set in exotic locales, makes this latest volume a worthy addition to this popular series."

"The fourth and final volume of Fantagraphics' popular Captain Easy series features lost cities, beautiful native girls and more heart-pounding exploits. Roy Crane's intrepid adventurer goes out with a bang and his adventures are presented, as ever, in glorious full-color with essays and other scholarly extras."