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Best Crime Comics is Best Christmas Present
Posted: January 4, 2011
Kev Sutherland, regular contributor to The Beano, recently reported that his two best Christmas presents were The Essential Guide To World Comics by Tim Pilcher & Brad Brooks [I’d also recommend this excellent resource on global comics], and my very own Mammoth Book Of Best Crime Comics.
As Kev explains, this was a 480-page compendium “... which I hadn’t even known existed, though it’s been around since 2008. Apart from The Spirit and Torpedo, I didn’t think crime comics were a genre I had much time for, but this book contains some gems whose existence I’d never even imagined. A British Roy Carson strip from 1953, a Secret Agent X9 newspaper strip by Alex Raymond, and a Bernie Krigstein strip from the TV spin-off comic 87th Precinct from 1962 were particular treats, among many other gems. Paul, where did you begin to find such stuff, and where might a curious reader find more?”
Thanks for the compliments Kev, glad you enjoyed it. And this website is a great place to discover loads more wonderful comics, of the criminal variety or whatever the genre.
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