Hurricane Isle and Other Adventures: The Best of Captain Easy (The Best of Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs), by Roy Crane
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Hurricane Isle and Other Adventures: The Best of Captain Easy (The Best of Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs), by Roy Crane
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In the wake of our Eisner Award–nominated Captain Easy Sunday adventure newspaper strip series, we are collecting the very best of the daily comic exploits of Easy and Tubbs.
Sate your wanderlust with a brick of slam-bang action, boisterous humor, dangerous villains, even more dangerous women, and the promised treasure in this collection of Roy Crane’s classic Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs. Following our Eisner Award–nominated series of Roy Crane’s Captain Easy Sunday strip collections, we have selected the very best of the indispensable daily comic strip adventures of Easy and Tubbs. Featuring Wash running a dinky railroad in a comic-opera version of Eastern Europe, the gripping narrative of Easy waging total war against The Phantom King, battles with pirates in the South Seas, and the harrowing story of Easy and Wash as prisoners on the infamous Devil’s Island. Roy Crane mixes imagination, romance, and thrills in a masterful storytelling style that entices you over the next mountain, across the next ocean, toward the next horizon―and always to the next thrill-packed adventure! Black and white Hurricane Isle and Other Adventures: The Best of Captain Easy (The Best of Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs), by Roy Crane- Amazon Sales Rank: #1072930 in Books
- Brand: Fantagraphics
- Published on: 2015-03-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.80" h x 1.30" w x 10.80" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
Review All of Fantagraphics' Roy Crane books the last few years have been beautiful and this one is no exception. --Tom Spurgeon"...[A] blue-blooded brawler, squint-eyed and strapping, Easy was the prototype for countless silver-screen he-men yet to come. This selection of Wash and Easy s 'best' provides ample opportunity for Crane to spin out picaresque yarns of shipwrecks, rum-running, jailbreaks and other feats of derring-do ... [T]he strip gets leaner and more propulsive as it goes along, ...[and] Crane s cartooning achieves a brute and curious grace. --Sean Rogers"
About the Author Royston Campbell Crane (1901-1977), who signed his work Roy Crane, created the comic-strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy, and Buz Sawyer. His work continues to inspire cartoonists today.Rick Norwood (b. 1942) is a comics historian, writer, mathematician, and professor. He wrote underground comics, founded the newspaper strip reprint publisher Manuscript Press in the 1970s, and is the editor of the magazine Comics Revue. He lives in Johnson City, Tennessee.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. The 'best' of 'Captain Easy'? What is in, what is not... By Ajit Roy Crane's 'Wash Tubbs', later to become 'Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy', was a (more or less) seamless narrative that ran from 1924 through 1943, when Crane left the strip to start 'Buz Sawyer'. It is obviously impossible to compress nineteen years' worth of dailies into 314 pages, and Fantagraphics makes no attempt to conceal that 'Hurricane Isle and Other Adventures' is a 'best-of' compilation rather than a complete collection.So what do you get?HURRICANE ISLE [February 23, 1928 - June 6, 1928]Wash and his pal Gozy -- Captain Easy hasn't yet entered the strip -- go to the West Indies in pursuit of the legendary Blackbeard's pirate treasure. This is the continuity that introduces the brutal Bull Dawson, destined to become Easy's archenemy. (Can you belive that gold fetched just $20 an ounce back then?!)ARABIA [July 30, 1928 - December 12, 1928]Flush with their new wealth, Wash and Gozy go on a Mediterranean cruise, make an enemy of Sheikh Abdul Hoozit Hudson Bey, are kidnapped after they try to rescue Jada from Hudson Bey's harem, and ultimately escape with help from the slave Bola, whom Jada describes as, "Thou art the most experienced in warfare, thou are in command."As described in 'Captain Easy Sunday' this sequence drew the ire of Crane's adventurous brother-in-law, George Finlay Simmons, who told him that he "shouldn't have a eunuch save them". This criticism from a man that Crane had long looked up to bore fruit in the next major storyline.KANDELABRA [April 11, 1929 - July 6, 1929]Toward the end of 'Arabia' Jada had revealed that she was a native of the Ruritanian kingdom of Kandelabra, somewhere in Europe, and sailed off, leaving Wash and Gozy. Half the story is missing, and when it picks up Wash -- but not Gozy -- is an admiral in Kandelabra, who is being hunted for the supposed crime of stealing the men's pay. Wandering around the catacombs, he finds, and rescues, a prisoner from the Grand Vizer's dungeon. The hardbitten soldier of fortune called Captain Easy had entered -- and adventure comic strips had a new kind of hero.DESERT ISLAND [February 6, 1930 - June 7, 1930]Bull Dawson has stolen the remnant of Wash's fortune, captures Easy and Tubbs on his schooner when they do find him, but a hurricane leads Dawson and his crew to abandon the ship, whereupon the imprisoned duo end up on the island that gives this continuity its title, where they meet the orphaned Mary Milton.THE PHANTOM KING [June 9, 1930 - October 29, 1930]Easy, Tubbs, and Mary escape the island, arrive in French-controlled Indo-China, and end up in an adventure that starts as something of a farce and becomes a commentary on war, scorched earth tactics and all. It all ends happily enough, with one of the first inter-racial marriages in comics.DOWN ON THE BAYOU [March 12, 1931 - July 25, 1931]Escaping from Costa Grande, Easy and Wash end up in the marshes of the Mississippi Delta, have another encounter with Bull Dawson, and join him in fighting the 'Chicago Gang'.There are two notable developments in this story. The first shows a more human side to Bull Dawson, who seems to genuinely care for his 'sister'. More important, more than two years after his first appearance, Crane finally reveals Easy's true name and the secrets of his past -- which, in turn, leads Wash to leave and find his old friend Gozy.THE TRANSALPINA EXPRESS [August 13, 1931 - November 21, 1931]Wash, now separated from both Easy and Gozy, ends up bankrupt in Europe, tries to seek Jada in Kandelabra, but ends up lost in a farcical adventure in the battling neighbouring countries of Sneezia and Belchia.In a stunning panel on Page 231 this return to comedy gave Crane the opportunity to mock every cliche in the handbook -- 'she is an angel', 'her neck is like that of a beautiful swan', 'her eyes are like stars', 'her lips like a red, red rose'...DEVIL'S ISLAND [June 9, 1932 - August 3, 1932]Wash and Easy end up in the notorious penal colony in French Guiana. Crane is unsparing in his rendition of life in the giant tropical prison, without any comic note being struck.WHALES [April 24, 1933 - August 30, 1933]Following an adventure in yet another Ruritanian principality -- how did they all fit into Europe?! -- Wash and Tubbs end up a scenario straight out of 'Moby Dick', a nightmarish voyage aboard an old-fashioned whaling ship, an insane officer, and, of course, meet the mysterious and beautiful Gail Webster.OKEFENOKEE [June 13, 1935 - July 24, 1935]More stolen money. More mysterious girls. More fights with Bull Dawson. More chances for Crane to depict the mysterious marshes of the South...According to the episode guide provided by editor Rick Norwood at the end of the book, 'Okefenokee' is the thirty-sixth continuity in the saga of Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy. Obviously, readers aren't getting the whole story. There are several holes in the story.In 'Desert Island', Easy recoils when Wash offers him a share of the money, saying that it has already caused the deaths of the Duke and the Countess. In 'Devil's Island' Wash sees someone who "looks like the fella who climbed into th' lifeboat with us" while Slug Snyder is 'the bully whose skull he cracked while aboard the convict ship'. But we may never get to read those tales.Occasionally, it seems as if strips have been dropped even within the printed continuities. On Page 35, for instance, either Wash or Gozy strikes Hudon Bey on the head while playing a deck game, but we don't actually get to see the strip(s) leading up to that. On Page 111 Easy and Wash are on the 'Desert Island' in the first two strips but the third starts with the caption 'Wash Tubbs and Easy spend their first night in bunks aboard the wrecked schooner'. It isn't at all difficult to follow the story but the jumps in story are odd.I don't like 'best of' compilations. Who is to decide what is truly 'best'? Frankly, I would have preferred it had Fantagraphics and Norwood chosen to publish everything at a stretch from 'Hurricane Isle' up to and including 'Down on the Bayou'.In 'Buz Sawyer Volume 3' the introduction speaks of a long letter by Crane himself in which he speaks of his fears that his place in the history of the American adventure comic strip wasn't getting due recognition.Fans now enjoy access to all of E. C. Segar's 'Popeye' in six volumes, all of Milton Caniff's 'Terry and the Pirates' in six tomes, all of Alex Raymond's work on 'Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim' in four giant books, ten volumes (and counting) of Hal Foster's magical 'Prince Valiant', not to mention complete runs of 'Little Orphan Annie', 'Dick Tracy', 'Rip Kirby', and others.It would be a shame if Roy Crane's seminal work on the 'Captain Easy' dailies is confined to a single volume.I hope this book sells well enough that Fantagraphics considers a complete retelling of 'Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy'. Or at least a second volume that gives us a sample of Crane's work -- with or without assistants -- that takes us to 1943.Crane's craft deserves a full five stars but the fact that this is merely a sampling of his nineteen year run reduces my liking for this book just a little. Four stars it is then.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. So sad that this won't include every strip from the entire run. By 42 is the answer I'm very disappointed that this won't be an unedited full run of all strips. I've been collecting the Flying Buttress volumes (have 1-9 so far) and I was hoping that I could stop buying them at this point.The decision to leave out the first entire year is mind boggling to me. The first year was a triumph and as close to being perfect as you could ask for. The only reason that I can imagine for leaving out the first year would be that they wouldn't have wanted to publish the second year. If they were publishing one or two years in a single volume, many readers would have likely stopped buying after reading year two.So, given that this is an edited run, leaving out the entire second years makes a lot more sense as the strip truly did nose dive during the second year. Bill Blackbeard loved the first year as well but was highly critical of the second year when looking at the strips full run, ...but he still published it!Many have called this the first and greatest adventure comic strip. I love Milt Cannif and am enjoying Steve Canyon and Terry and the Pirates but most of Cannif's ideas had already been done by Roy Crane.The first copy of this book to arrive at my house had a busted spine. I had to return it for another copy. I partly blame that on the shipping, but the quality and construction of this book could be better. Maybe if they had committed to publishing a full run I wouldn't have minded as much.I'm not sure that I'll buy any further editions - but if this is all you can get; don't pass it up. This was a great, great! strip. I'm complaining about the choice to publish a choppy and edited run of a fantastic, hilarious, and important strip.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Wash and Easy's Greatest Hits By TheEyesHaveIt If you're not familiar with some of the past reprints of Wash Tubbs dailies, then this is a good introduction. Crane's adventure strip is breezy, exuberant fun with plenty of cliffhangers and exotic intrigue. Reproduction seems to be in line with what I've seen previously, with most of the content looking good and a smattering of it looking too light or too dark (likely due to limitations in the sources for the reproduction). The "best of" treatment means that the editors have chosen where to begin/end the adventures and also drop some content that wasn't considered essential for the main stories being told. In other words, it's not always a strict day-to-day chronology of the strip, even within each separate adventure.The only caveat here is that if you are familiar with some of the older daily reprints like the The Complete Wash Tubbs by Flying Buttress, this book is likely to contain a fair amount of content you've already seen. That may or may not be a negative, depending on circumstances. Roughly 1/2 of this volume is material I had already seen, but it's still nice to have it.
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