For over 35 years, Pacific Comics Club has published affordable quality collections of some of the finest newspaper
comic strips of the Twentieth Century. The following is a list of our publications currently in stock:
Adventures of Patsy
Having started its life as a fairy-tale fantasy, The Adventures of Patsy metamorphosed into a contemporary adventure strip as its creator, Mel Graff, came under the influence of his friends Milton Caniff and Noel Sickles. Graff
made the title character into a child movie star. With her adult protector,
Uncle Phil Cardigan, Patsy roamed the world, alternating between fixing broken
romances and fighting gangsters. Patsy was Graff's finest hour. His fast-moving
scripts and excellent artwork are finally available for modern readers.
Volumes #1-8
$9.50 each
Casey Ruggles
One of the best post-war adventure strips, Casey Ruggles offered fine art combined with exceptional stories. Writer-artist Warren Tufts set his saga in the boisterous days of the California Gold Rush. Casey's
adventures range from the Russian settlement in northern California to the icy
Sierra Nevada.
Pacific Comics Club currently offers three 9.5x13.5" Casey Ruggles softcover
volumes.
• Casey Ruggles: The Pearl Galleon
• Casey Ruggles: Juan Soto, The Prophet Julius, and King of the Horsemen
(Reprints continuous dailies from 5/14/1951 to 10/9/1951.)
• Casey Ruggles: The Marchioness of Grofnek
$9.50 each
Charlie Chan
After serving an apprenticeship under Milton Caniff, young Alfred Andriola got his own strip--a daily/Sunday mystery adventure based on Earl Derr Biggers' popular Hawaiian-Chinese detective, Charlie Chan. Andriola did good work on the series, writing brisk, entertaining stories and
illustrating them with a handsome variation on his mentor's "Caniff-Sickles
school" style.
Pacific Comics Club has reprinted two complete Chan stories.
Each 6" x 9" book prints dailies and Sunday pages in black-and-white. Softbound,
2-color cover.
Return of Keeno (88 pages)
Murder at the Crown Circus (688 pages)
$9.50 each
Connie
Back in the Golden Age of American comic strips, not all strips got the exposure
they deserved. Small syndicates like Bell Features distributed their output
mostly to smaller newspapers. As a result, some nice strips were seldom seen
and are almost unknown today. One of these lost treasures is Connie, the forgotten masterwork of illustrator Frank Godwin.
Godwin's Connie, produced in the 1930s for the Ledger Syndicate, was groundbreaking in many
ways. Its heroine, Connie Kurridge, was a woman of action who roamed the the
earth and explored space. Godwin's magnificent art drew from the pulp magazine
s-f design of the day, creating futuristic machinery and fantastic creatures
with equal ease.
Pacific Comics Club proudly presents some of Connie's adventures to new
generations. Surprisingly readable, great to look at, Connie deserves a place
in every newspaper strip fan's collection.
The Unseen Avenger
The Menace of Mo Tung
$14.95 each
Still available
Captives of Space Pirates
Battle for Titan
$11.95 each
Dick Tracy
We also offer the following softcover reprints:
DICK TRACY FEATURE BOOKS (8½x11, 72 pages)
Faithful reproductions of McKay’s Tracy collections.
Dick Tracy Detective #4
Dick Tracy Detective #5
Racket Buster
The Famon Boys
$9.50 each
Tracy’s best years (1936-41) in large format softbound books. These editions are not available anywhere but through this site. We still have the following books:
Purple Cross Gang pt.1
The Blank (2 volumes)
Alien Smuggling
Death of Tracy
Family Affair
Princes of Bovinia
Unholy Matrimony
Fur King
Death of a Hood
Bicycle Thieves
Krome’s Crimes
Selbert the Gunman
Little Faces
$9.50 each
Drago
When he left his Tarzan strip in 1945, Burne Hogarth went on to create Drago, the adventures of a young Argentine nobleman battling post war Nazis in South
America. Although exhibiting the same fine artwork and action as his earlier
work, his new strip never caught on and was canceled after its first year. Pacific Comics Club is proud to offer the first American reappearance of this forgotten masterpiece.
Softcover, 8.5x11", 58 pages
$9.50
Inspector Wade
This 1930s mystery strip stars Edgar Wallace’s two-fisted Scotland Yard detective. Forgotten today, the feature did well in
its heyday. Here’s your chance to become a fan. Each book features a complete story.
The Swiss Headwaiter
The Black
The Gallows Hand
The Poisoned Thorn
The Yellow Beetle
(7x9, softbound)
$9.50 each
Jungle Jim
Alex Raymond, master of comic art, had two popular features at the same time. While Flash
Gordon fought Ming on the distant planet Mongo, Jungle Jim and his companion Lil fought earthbound villains here at home.
We offer volumes 1 through 35 of Raymond's famous top-strip, covering his entire
run on Jim. Full color reproductions in original Sunday page size.
$9.50 each
