Undercover Girl Gardner F Fox Matthew H Gore Ogden Whitney Bob Powell 9780692525975 Books
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Collected from Magazine Enterprises' comic books of the late-1940s, the complete adventures of Starr Flagg, the Undercover Girl, present a microcosm of post-war American popular culture and paranoia from the unique perspective of a female protagonist. In the comics of the atomic age espionage was an almost entirely male occupation but chain-smoking Starr traded punches and gun shots with a bevy of antagonists, both male and female. The stories were all most likely written by Gardner Fox and were definitely illustrated by Ogden Whitney. Bob Powell provided the three covers for the three reprint issues of Undercover Girl.
Undercover Girl Gardner F Fox Matthew H Gore Ogden Whitney Bob Powell 9780692525975 Books
Ogden Whitney is yet another in a long list of very talented yet under-appreciated comic artists to have worked during the 1950’s and 1960’s. He co-created Undercover Girl along with Gardner Fox and it is definitely one of his better efforts somewhat lost in the dust of the Cold War. The lead character of the strip was Starr Flagg, reporter by day and female secret agent when necessary. It was never clear exactly who she worked for, sometimes reporting to the CIA, sometimes an unidentified branch of the US military and sometimes some agency that wasn't named at all. What she did do was battle Communist spies… always with her flowing blond hair, wearing revealing dresses and high heels. The perfect wardrobe for the Cold War spy. And Whitney did draw her well.Her appearances in the original comics were published by Magazine Enterprises (ME) as a series of short (6-7) page stories beginning with Manhunt #1, in 1947. Her feature continued to appear in Manhunt through issue 14 (1953), two issues of Trail Colt (1-2) and then those stories were reprinted by ME in Undercover Girl 5-7 from 1952-4. That is where these stories come from. Magazine Enterprises is a company that is long gone, and her adventures are now part of the public domain thanks to the fact that the copyright has expired.
This is certainly a “no-frills” book. The publisher states there is no introduction, no “diatribe” on artists or whatever. All true. I believe all of the Undercover Girl stories are here (albeit reproduced smaller than originally printed) in this inexpensive volume, and there you have it. That’s it. They also say that the book is reproduced from vintage comics mentioning in one paragraph that efforts were made to “clean up” the reproduction with varying degrees of success, and in another paragraph that clean-up was “rudimentary”. And that is my major criticism of the volume: the reproduction and printing. They said they weren’t cleaning up the comics, and they did not. It looks exactly as they say it is… copies of comics that are in the public domain. Some of the colors were off, registration was off, and some balloons were tough to read.
All that being said, I was surprised when I read a statement on the title page that, “No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, including photocopying”; but isn’t that exactly what they did? They reproduced these from vintage comics. How can they put that claim on comics that are now in the public domain? Since these stories are in the public domain, there are at least two sites where they can be viewed for free if you just want to read them, including http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2465 and http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/. Personally, I think the pages are larger, crisper and clearer on those sites than in this book, even though I prefer having a book to hold
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Undercover Girl Gardner F Fox Matthew H Gore Ogden Whitney Bob Powell 9780692525975 Books Reviews
Ogden Whitney is yet another in a long list of very talented yet under-appreciated comic artists to have worked during the 1950’s and 1960’s. He co-created Undercover Girl along with Gardner Fox and it is definitely one of his better efforts somewhat lost in the dust of the Cold War. The lead character of the strip was Starr Flagg, reporter by day and female secret agent when necessary. It was never clear exactly who she worked for, sometimes reporting to the CIA, sometimes an unidentified branch of the US military and sometimes some agency that wasn't named at all. What she did do was battle Communist spies… always with her flowing blond hair, wearing revealing dresses and high heels. The perfect wardrobe for the Cold War spy. And Whitney did draw her well.
Her appearances in the original comics were published by Magazine Enterprises (ME) as a series of short (6-7) page stories beginning with Manhunt #1, in 1947. Her feature continued to appear in Manhunt through issue 14 (1953), two issues of Trail Colt (1-2) and then those stories were reprinted by ME in Undercover Girl 5-7 from 1952-4. That is where these stories come from. Magazine Enterprises is a company that is long gone, and her adventures are now part of the public domain thanks to the fact that the copyright has expired.
This is certainly a “no-frills” book. The publisher states there is no introduction, no “diatribe” on artists or whatever. All true. I believe all of the Undercover Girl stories are here (albeit reproduced smaller than originally printed) in this inexpensive volume, and there you have it. That’s it. They also say that the book is reproduced from vintage comics mentioning in one paragraph that efforts were made to “clean up” the reproduction with varying degrees of success, and in another paragraph that clean-up was “rudimentary”. And that is my major criticism of the volume the reproduction and printing. They said they weren’t cleaning up the comics, and they did not. It looks exactly as they say it is… copies of comics that are in the public domain. Some of the colors were off, registration was off, and some balloons were tough to read.
All that being said, I was surprised when I read a statement on the title page that, “No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, including photocopying”; but isn’t that exactly what they did? They reproduced these from vintage comics. How can they put that claim on comics that are now in the public domain? Since these stories are in the public domain, there are at least two sites where they can be viewed for free if you just want to read them, including http//comicbookplus.com/?cid=2465 and http//digitalcomicmuseum.com/. Personally, I think the pages are larger, crisper and clearer on those sites than in this book, even though I prefer having a book to hold
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