Dale Messick (1905–2005)

A series of the first appearances of "Brenda Starr", a truly wretched girl reporter strip that began as a comic book newspaper insert in 1940. I thought there would be some articles about the impact of the comic book code on the fledgling comic book (and newspaper strip) industry. But instead we have a short introduction by Ron Goulart, and then several of the earliest Brenda Starr stories, accompanied by a few other stories that originally accompanied Brenda in the inserts. If anything, Dale Messick's writing and art are even worse than her later comic strip work. I purchased it as a comic strip historian; for some reason, "Brenda Starr" has been one of the most long-lived and popular comic strips ever created by a woman.… (plus d'informations)