Created by Michael O'Malley & Ralph Lane VIC FLINT was one of a mere handful of hard-boiled private eyes, in the tradition of Hammett, Chandler, et al., to appear on the comic pages of North American newspapers. A typical hard-boiled shamus, complete with wise-cracks and a perpetual cigarette in his yap, he appeared in both … Continue reading Vic Flint
Tag: St. John Publications
Authentic Police Cases
Comic Book Anthology Series (1948-55) AUTHENTIC POLICE CASES was a popular Golden Age comic anthology, featuring crime and detective stories, published by the St. John Publishing Company. It ran for thirty-eight issues, from February 1948 to March 1955, and featured an assortment reprints of newspaper strips colorized and reformatted, including tales featuring early comic book … Continue reading Authentic Police Cases
Steve Bullitt (The Case of the Winking Buddha)
Created by Manning Lee Stokes Pseudonyms include Nick Carter, Paul Edwards, Jeffrey Lord, Bernice Ludwell, March Marlowe, Ken Stanton, Kermit Welles, Kirk Westley, Ford Worth, Helen Sayles (1911-76) and Charles Raab (1908-66) For comic book nerds, it's a given that It Rhymes With Lust , published in 1950, was the first American graphic novel. A … Continue reading Steve Bullitt (The Case of the Winking Buddha)
Lucky Coyne (aka Kensington Slade, Jinx Jordan & Rocky Stone)
Created by the Harry "A" Chesler Syndicate Yet another of those comic book eyes that slipped through the cracks was the chameleon-like NEIL "LUCKY" COYNE. In his brief career -- he appeared in as many as a couple of dozen cases stretching from about 1937 to 1946, and was something of a shapeshifter, working as … Continue reading Lucky Coyne (aka Kensington Slade, Jinx Jordan & Rocky Stone)