The first of a series (?) of reprints of the strip’s early years shipped yesterday from Hermes Press. I haven’t actually read it yet (still working my way through “Blondie”), but the book’s subtitle, “the Collected Dailies and Sundays: 1940-1946”, is somewhat misleading. It actually contains three stories spaced apart within those years: the first Sunday story (June 30, 1940 through April 20, 1941) presented in color; another Sunday only story (September 10, 1944 through January 14, 1945), presented in black and white but reproduced from the original artwork; and the first story to integrate daily and Sunday continuity (October 22, 1945 through February 24, 1946) , with the dailies in black & white and the Sundays in color.
Actually, the daily strip did not begin until October 22, 1945, so Brenda Starr never ran separate daily and Sunday continuitie simultaneously, it’s just that for the first five years, the strip was Sunday only. Although the Sundays from the second story are reproduced directly from the original art, it looks to me as if the dailies from the third story are reproduced from tear sheets. It’s a little pricey ($60) as all offering from Hermes Press are, but it has the potential to be this year’s “Miss Fury”. This is not the Brenda Starr I remember from my own childhood.
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...yeah , like a lot of pre-" Postwar " continuities , doesn't it have suprisingly physical danger-oriented , Saturday afternoon serial-like , situations ?