{"product_id":"best-of-don-winslow-of-the-navy","title":"BEST OF DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew lower price, making this a real bargain. We like this book at lot.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e A collection of the best stories from the classic Fawcett Comics run of \u003cem\u003eDon Winslow of the Navy\u003c\/em\u003e, beginning with the first issue in 1943. A long, well illustrated introduction details his appearances first as a newspaper comic strip (1934-55), then in films beginning in 1942, books, pulps, and other media. Here you'll find Winslow fighting the Axis powers as well as villains like The Snake and the smoldering hot, but deadly lady pirate, Singapore Sal. Winslow was a spy-chasing lieutenant commander in Naval Intelligence.\n\nThe comic strip led to a radio show that began in 1937. The character served to foster recruitment, entertain Navy personnel and the general public up to and throughout World War II and beyond and was popular into the 1950s.\n\nThe comic strip debuted on March 5, 1934. A Sunday page was added in 1935. Creator Lieutenant Commander \u003cstrong\u003eFrank V. Martinek\u003c\/strong\u003e, USNR, who served in Navy Intelligence himself, supervised the daily feature’s \"general tone and direction\", sending the typewritten continuity to Naval Lieutenant \u003cstrong\u003eLeon Beroth\u003c\/strong\u003e, who served as art director and \u003cstrong\u003eCarl Hammond\u003c\/strong\u003e to handle layouts and research. From 1934 to 1952, Beroth was the leading artist on the feature. \u003cstrong\u003eKen Ernst\u003c\/strong\u003e (later famous for \u003cem\u003eMary Worth\u003c\/em\u003e), assisted or ghosted the art between 1940 and 1942.\n\nWith Don Winslow leaving his fiancée behind in December 1941 to go fight the Japanese, the World War II period saw the height of \u003cem\u003eDon Winslow\u003c\/em\u003e's popularity.\n\nAlthough never an A-list title, this was a solid series. Of course, Fawcett was also home to the Captain Marvel family, Spy Smasher, Bulletman, etc. and they knew how to write a good story, with writers like Otto Binder, William Woolfolk and C.C. Beck. These stories were more down to earth, with Winslow manning both ships and planes on adventures that pitted him against the Japanese, Nazis, and after the war, pirates, smugglers and the like.\n\n\"As a piece of comic book history, this is remarkable...blended somewhat realistic adventure fiction with outrageous pulp...lots of fistfights...a sexy female pirate...and a couple of really weird male villains that Dick Tracy would have loved.\" -ICv2\n\n\u003cem\u003eThis may not make it into your typical bookstore and comic outlets. While it looks just like an archive by IDW or Dark Horse, it's actually funded and published by the U.S. Naval Institute! I personally collect Don Winslow comics as well as his Big Little Books. His two pulp appearances are extremely scarce. Craig Yoe's introduction is very well done, a good overview of all the history, from first idea to comic strip, including the uncredited writers and artists there, and with good illustrations of the pulps, serial posters, and even an unpublished cover that we show here in black and white. Handsome large size. -Bud\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Reckoning","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59639826252062,"sku":"BEDWH","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/product_b_e_bedwh-best-of-don-winslow-navy.jpg?v=1784475669","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/best-of-don-winslow-of-the-navy","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}