From 1953, this Buck Ryan story has some great scenes, crime, action and thrills. Thanks again to Wiseman for sourcing the tiers for the story. We hope you enjoy this thriller. There is more information about this book at the bottom of the page
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Gentlemen, I thank you for this wonderful Christmas surprise! Cheers, Bowers
By The Australian Panther
This is indeed a great Christmas Present! the Structure and details of this story have to have been influenced by Chester Gould' s Dick Tracy. And that is by no means a criticism.
But the most curious thing is Zola's dialogue on page 34, where they are 'listening for footprints'. She is made to say, 'How can you cut out the steady throb of Australian Cricketers hoofing the runs?' !
When I got to the end and saw that this story was reprinted in Australia, it seems likely to me that that year (which year, I don't know.) Australia was playing Britain and and a Cricket enthusiast on the editorial team added that dialogue.
Thanks Paw.
By wiseman
Well, for me, Buck Ryan in the fifties is better than Dick Tracy. I mean, Gould aims to a metaphisic idea of Evil, incarnated in more and more grotesque (and less and less credible) villains. I’m more down to earth. Also the landascapes are always to much stylized for my taste. To say nothing of his weltanschauung , typical of the American Republicans, that I dislike. Otherwise, in Buck Ryan I find the real world of the little delinquents, nor too bad or too good. become such more by necessity than by vocation. And the landscape is real: the alleys, the little shops, the countryside, ever represented with minuteness.
Yes, it is true, in the stories there are references to reality, which today often go unnoticed. By the way: Twilight is my favorite character. Now I'm working on some other interesting stories where she is the absolute protagonist.
Very soon on these screens!
By crashryan
In an interview Alberto Giolitti was asked to contrast the stories he illustrated for American and British comics. He observed that American comics tend to tell stories about adventures that happen to the hero, while British comics tend to describe adventures in which the hero takes part.
I think that's what I find these Buck Ryan stories so appealing. There's no question that Buck is the hero, but the stories take a wider view, with antagonists, secondary characters, and local color having almost as important a role as Buck himself. I like how Freeman tries to give his villains (usually) believable motives and individual personalities. Wiseman pointed out that Gould's Dick Tracy operates on a symbolic level; Buck Ryan on the other hand operates on a smaller "ordinary people" level.
In this story Honey chooses to stick with her husband rather than flee, even though it means life in prison. That's not the sort of thing most comic strip villainesses would do, and it's just the sort of thing that make Freeman's stories so readable.
By Kurtzmanrules
Love this neglected comic strip! Thank you!
By Peral
I guess this is the early days of using raster, seeing the frequent use of it. I prefered the old black and white
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