My ScrapbookA Kent Murdock Murder Mystery TOLD IN PICTURES! Is this cool, or what? Above is the actual cover of Four Frightened Women (1950, Dell), and right below is an ad for it. Occasionally touted as "the very first graphic novel" (it wasn't), it was number two in Dell's "Told in Pictures" line, Dell's ambitious … Continue reading My Scrapbook: A Kent Murdock Murder Mystery TOLD IN PICTURES!
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Benjamin Drake
Created by Dashiell Loveless Pseudonym of Jim Pascoe and Tom Fassbender "One false step and it's curtains for the floozy!" -- this ain't no foolin' around (By the Balls) He's a P.I. with "a passion for small cigars and Old Grand-Dad, and a weakness for women in trouble", the hot shot op for the Always … Continue reading Benjamin Drake
Sid Ames & Johnny Knight
Created by H.W. Roden (1895-1963) SID AMES is a rye-swilling New York City gumshoe with a distaste for the cops and a rather unusual occasional sidekick, public relations consultant JOHNNY KNIGHT, who "knows all the angles and rarely misses a trick." Johnny might have served as the brains of the bunch -- if … Continue reading Sid Ames & Johnny Knight