Featuring Paul and Rita Darrow. US newspaper strip reprint with linking art by Bill Lacey. There is more information about this book at the bottom of the page
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Which American newspaper strip does this reprint? In places it looks like Paul Norris, in others a Raymond disciple who draws better than Norris...but it doesn't look familiar.
By The Australian Panther
This is only part of a longer story, as the abrupt ending occurs only because they ran out of pages.
Anybody know if this was continued in another edition of Super Detective Library? Can't make up my mind if this is US in origin or British. Its very mid-Atlantic. I'd also love to know where it came from and who the artist was. An Artist and storyteller this good didn't come from nowhere.
By Andrew999
I had never heard of Paul & Rita Darrow before but look forward to reading more adventures. This one had everything - Lost World, Centre of the Earth, A Million Years BC, a cameo appearance from Son of Kong and blonde-haired fish maidens - always a favourite.
Poignantly, Paul Darrow (the actor who played the late, great, never to be repeated, Avon in Blake's Seven) died earlier this year. Were the two related? Probably not - but coincidences unnerve me.
The pages posted in the wrong order create an interesting post-modern effect - I pretended they were timeslips - but they could equally be life-affirming visions from characters under stress - Betty looked about to explode; scenes from a parallel world intruding into our own, or the effects of too much alcohol - your choice (or, if you are really really boring, you could just choose to read the pages in the correct order)
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