Bruce Gentry Dailies and Sundays

Collected here for the first time ever are the adventures of pilot Bruce Gentry! This volume introduces us to Bruce, Ricardo, and the mysterious spy Del Norte, with war action in South America. Bruce finds romance, a kid sidekick, and post-war intrigue as crime and beautiful women insert themselves into his world. This first of several volumes covers the years 1945 and 1946, with full color Sundays!

$75.00 | 242pp | Hardcover | B&W and Color | 11″ x 8.5″ | No ISBN

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Mary Perkins On Stage

Mary Perkins, On Stage (commonly known simply as On Stage) is an acclaimed American soap-opera and adventure comic strip created, written, and drawn by Leonard Starr. It ran daily and in Sunday editions from February 10, 1957, to September 9, 1979, syndicated by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.

The strip follows Mary Perkins, an aspiring, talented young actress from small-town Pennsylvania who moves to New York City to build a career in show business. The storylines chronicled her rise through Broadway theatre, live television, Hollywood feature films, and international productions.

Volume One: 1957-1958. Introduction by Walter Simonson 230 pages, 11″x8.5″, hardcover

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In Volume One we reprinted the first three storylines from this classic American comic strip. With Volume Two we continue our reprinting of the complete run of Leonard Starr’s Mary Perkins On Stage with complete storylines (dailies and color Sundays) from 1958 and 1959

Volume Two: 1958-1959. Introduction by Kurt Buriek 218 pages, 11″x8.5″, hardcover

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Complete Annie by Leonard Starr

Complete Annie by Leonard Starr Volume One

The Complete Annie by Leonard Starr is the first in a fourteen-volume series that will reprint the entire run of the comic strip Annie (formerly known as Little Orphan Annie) that was written and drawn by Leonard Starr from December 3, 1979 to February 20, 2000.

The first volume reprints the first five stories which originally appeared in newspapers from December 3, 1979 to April 26, 1981 and they are appearing here for the first time since then. The stories are being reprinted from high quality proof pages. The dailies are in black and white while the Sunday pages have been digitally recolored based on the original colors as they appeared in the newspapers.

In addition to the five Annie stories there is also an article about how Leonard Starr was chosen to become affiliated with the series.

Each volume in the series will include complete Annie stories in the original order that they were published as well as rare photos and promotional illustrations, many from the original art.

In addition to Annie, Leonard Starr is also known as the creator, writer and illustrator of the comic strip Mary Perkins On Stage which ran in newspapers from 1957 to 1979. He was also the head writer and uncredited co-creator of the 1980s animated television series ThunderCats.

The first volume is 232 pages and is available in hardcover and softbound.

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The Complete Annie by Leonard Starr Volume Two

The six stories in this volume originally appeared in newspapers from April 27, 1981 to November 7, 1982 and have never been reprinted before. Also included are more rare promotional illustrations, many from the original art.

In this volume Daddy Warbucks falls in love when he and Annie meet Angela Pease. After that Annie runs into her old friend, the mysterious Mr. Am. Sandy gets dognapped by the nefarious Kneck brothers, and Annie encounters the enigmatic and skillful Stella Han plus two more exciting adventures. As always Annie continues to encounter a large assortment of interesting individuals as her travels take her from one adventure to another.

Also included in this volume is the first part of a series describing how the publisher of this book met Leonard Starr and how that chance meeting led to a thirty year friendship.

Volume two is 250 pages. 11″ x 8.5″.

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