CLASSIC ADVENTURE COMICS Volume 8 Johnny Dynamite Hardcover

Johnny Dynamite was a hard-boiled private detective, known as "The Wild Man from Chicago." Good friends with the D.A. but readily accepted by the underworld, he smoked cigarettes constantly, cursed frequently and had a bad habit of getting shot and beaten by his enemies. But he always gave as good as he got; he was an experienced and persistent detective taking his cases very personally and killed many of his early foes, claiming they were reaching for a weapon. Created by artist/writer Pete Morisi, who in reality was a moonlighting police officer for much of his early career in comics. Myra Benz, who had shot him in the eye, was brazenly killed without any true justification beyond his own sense of justice. Violent pre-code stories. Morisi was influenced by Alex Toth and remains, along with Steve Ditko, one of Charlton's best artists; here he's getting his start at new company Comic Media, who published for just a few years before the Comics Code put them out of business.