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Summary: A great survey of one of the great comic strips
Review: This book is superb way of learning about one of the best, and easily the most violent, adventure strips ever made. This book highlights the complete history of the strip with its major stories, characters and the context in which the stories were told.Best of all, although the author admires the strip, he is still honest enough to show the strip's decline as the creator, Chester Gould's artistic instincts abruptly abandoned him in the 1960's. To that end, the author does talk about Gould's stupid moon period and his ossified "damn the rights of the accused" stance that turned the strip into predominately rightwing ranting forum. All in all, an excellent book.
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Summary: A great survey of one of the great comic strips
Review: This book is superb way of learning about one of the best, and easily the most violent, adventure strips ever made. This book highlights the complete history of the strip with its major stories, characters and the context in which the stories were told. Best of all, although the author admires the strip, he is still honest enough to show the strip's decline as the creator, Chester Gould's artistic instincts abruptly abandoned him in the 1960's. To that end, the author does talk about Gould's stupid moon period and his ossified "damn the rights of the accused" stance that turned the strip into predominately rightwing ranting forum. All in all, an excellent book.
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