{"product_id":"captain-easy-soldier-of-fortune-vol-2-the-complete-sunday-newspaper-strips-9781606993910","title":"Captain Easy  Soldier of Fortune Vol. 2: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips","description":"\u003cp\u003eHigh adventure on the high seas! This second of four volumes reprints in full color the rare Captain Easy Sunday pages from the 1930s. Roy Cranes 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  its 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.  Long before the first superhero  Roy Cranes courageous  indomitable  and cliff-ganging rough guy served as the template for characters that later defined comic books  and set the aesthetic standards for the newspaper strip. Cranes mastery is why Peanuts creator Charles Schulz said of him (circa 1989): A treasure. There is still no one around who draws any better. 144 pages of full-color comic strips\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652352073781,"sku":"ByrdShop_1606993917","price":60.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781606993910.jpg?v=1781851256","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/captain-easy-soldier-of-fortune-vol-2-the-complete-sunday-newspaper-strips-9781606993910","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}