BLACK CONDOR & THE RAY Volume 2 Hardcover

Don't miss this fine new collection of rare early Quality Group stories. Lou Fine draws every single Black Condor story in this collection, while Reed Crandall draws every Ray story to #29, taking over from Lou Fine with Crack #23.  These are two of Quality's earliest and best superheroes. The Ray is zapped by an electrical storm, giving him powers to absorb energy from his surroundings and emit it from his body in any form he chooses, including flight. The Black Condor is Richard Grey, who lost his parents and was raised by giant black condors. From his condor foster parents, he learned to fly. Lou Fine was one of the most impressive and influential artists to ever work in comics. His fluid figures were admired and copied by such greats as Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. In the early 40's, the heyday of the Golden Age, he worked for Everett M. "Busy" Arnold at Quality Comics along with such greats as Reed Crandall, Jack Cole and Will Eisner and in addition to his impressive covers, he worked on such comics as the Black Condor. Reed Crandall artwork on the Ray is simply glorious, some of finest, smoothest, most polished artwork of the Golden Age. This is a killer collection. The introduction looks at Fine and Crandall: their Golden Age careers and these two early, successful superheroes in the Quality Comics line. This 17-page feature also examines  Gil Fox, who was both a Quality editor and the creator of most or all of the covers for the issues here. First the softcover version of Volume 1 sold out almost immediately; and we just sold our last copy of the hardcover; both are currently out of print. Obviously this outstanding material was long overdue to be collected. We hope they reprint Vol 1.