DAVID WRIGHT'S JUDY Showcase

In the early 1950s David Wright made an unusual career move for a successful commercial and pinup artist – he turned to comics. An early product of his new direction was the strip Judy, which he began in 1953 with John Hunter (writing as "Peter Meriton") providing scripts. Judy was a standard adventure strip for the time – a beautiful young girl is thrust into danger with her partner, Ricky, with their treasure-hunting exploits taking them to exotic locales across the globe for a series of loosely plotted melodramas. This volume collects the first four stories of the Judy strip —   comprising episodes 1-119, March 14, 1953 through June 18, 1955 — and include: "The Fanton Package," "The Zexitcico Treasure," "The SS Morna Gold," and "The Kalda Diamond." Message from the publisher: With our trio of Carol Day story books complete, Slingsby Bros, Ink! is pleased to announce the publication of David Wright's Judy, a nearly forgotten Carol Day precursor strip. As far as we are aware, this is the first printing of Judy since its original publication in the pages of the Tit-Bits weekly. Judy is not quite Carol Day, due to weaker plots and cardboard characters, but maintains a strong appeal because of the art and its adventure premise, and it was a great vehicle for Wright's beautiful cheesecake panels. In our view, it's a minor gem by one of the greatest strip artists to practice the art and is well worth fans' attention. Tear-sheets are not the ideal source for reprinting strips, but original art and proofs are unavailable (as far as we know they are not extant), and we believe the strip is worth preserving in spite of the limitations of our source material. We have collected the first four Judy stories for this volume and hope you will agree. Although printed in black and white, the source tear-sheets are scanned in full-color to help reflect the original artwork.