Rip Kirby vol.6, now on Amazon

At last, the 6th vol. is up on Amazon.

The book

In this sixth volume, Rip Kirby enters the Swinging Sixties and artist John Prentice has made the strip completely his own. He would soon receive the National Cartoonist Society award for "Best Story Strip Cartoonist" in 1966 and 1967. Fred Dickenson, who had been writing the strip with series originator Alex Raymond, keeps the continuity going for Prentice's exquisite art. The strips are reproduced from the original King Features Syndicate proofs, insuring that every daily will look even better than when they were first published in newspapers over fifty years ago. Contains more than 800 comics from June 8, 1959 to February 10, 1962. 

I think this period, and a few years later, had the best Rip Kirby stories of all time. Let us have a look on what is in the book. I use here the titles I have in my index, and I think they will be using other titles.

The stories

047 - Matches In The Telescope June 8 1959 - October 3 1959

Nice art.

048 - Ghost Town Showdown October 5 1959 - December 5 1959

049 - Doom On The High Seas December 7 1959 - April 9 1960

050 - Fortunes Folly April 11 1960 - August 13 1960

051 - Treasure Haven August 15 1960 - November 19 1960

052 - Honors Choice November 21 1960 - April 8 1961

053 - The Town That Time Forgot April 10 1961 - September 16 1961

The Town forgotten by Time - one of the funnier stories from this period of Prentice.

054 - Too Much Amour September 18 1961 - February 10 1962

IDW continues then

Since we first learned that IDW continued publishing of these Rip Kirby books after Alex Raymond's run we have only one, vol.5. Since the advertising of these have come very early in the past, and the Raymond run came with smaller intervals, I was wondering if they planned to continue.

I am happy to learn they do, even if this book is not due until September 2013, we now know they plan to do it!