Product Description: This collection of Milton Caniff's groundbreaking comic strip, Steve Canyon, features stories which ran throughout the ninth year of the adventure strip and into early 1956, including "Twice Broken Heart" and "Scarlet Princess."
Excellent new format Skydog is right. The book is just the right size for the strips.
I have to sympathize with the publishers, as finding the right size is an optimization problem with subjective parameters. Now the Sundays, which Caniff had crafted as a unified whole, don't fit on one page. Though this is a drag, the bigger size of the strips makes the new format a great improvement on the old one. The new format means fewer strips in a book - this one weighs in at about 50 weeks, taking us well into 1956. Binding is good, nice glossy paper, very well printed.
The first story is a boring Summer Olsen soap, but the other two are quite good (yes, the ridiculous plot twists are still there). We see progress - there are more jets now and the cars are getting more modern. A new femme fatale (Savannah Gay) makes her appearance, though I gotta admit, I can hardly tell her apart from a few previous ones.
Looking forward to the 1956 issue...
Hooray for the new format! The new bigger format is great! That's what such a detailed strip needs to really come over. The first volume of this re-print were presenting the strips much too small. But, lo and behold, Checker is a comic-book company which listens to its readers! Who would have thought such a thing possible? Wonderful! Thanks a lot, Checker people.
Anything Goes Trivia
Megaton Man
Trevor
