{"product_id":"david-wrights-judy-showcase","title":"DAVID WRIGHT'S JUDY Showcase","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the early 1950s \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Wright\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eJudy\u003c\/em\u003e, which he began in 1953 with \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Hunter\u003c\/strong\u003e (writing as \"Peter Meriton\") providing scripts. \u003cem\u003eJudy\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\n\nThis volume collects the first four stories of the \u003cem\u003eJudy\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\"\n\nMessage from the publisher:\n\n\u003cem\u003eWith our trio of \u003c\/em\u003eCarol Day\u003cem\u003e story books complete, Slingsby Bros, Ink! is pleased to announce the publication of \u003c\/em\u003eDavid Wright's Judy\u003cem\u003e, a nearly forgotten \u003c\/em\u003eCarol Day\u003cem\u003e precursor strip. As far as we are aware, this is the first printing of \u003c\/em\u003eJudy \u003cem\u003esince its original publication in the pages of the \u003c\/em\u003eTit-Bits \u003cem\u003eweekly.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\nJudy \u003cem\u003eis not quite \u003c\/em\u003eCarol Day\u003cem\u003e, 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003eIn our view, it's a minor gem by one of the greatest strip artists to practice the art and is well worth fans' attention.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003eTear-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.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003eWe have collected the first four \u003c\/em\u003eJudy \u003cem\u003estories for this volume and hope you will agree.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003eAlthough printed in black and white, the source tear-sheets are scanned in full-color to help reflect the original artwork.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59643966980382,"sku":"DAVJH","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/davjh-david-wright-judy-1953-1955.jpg?v=1784524564","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/david-wrights-judy-showcase","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}