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Rip Kirby 20.9.1950 (...I'd row the Styx...)

Artist: Alex Raymond (All)

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Title:	Rip Kirby 20.9.1950 (...I'd row the Styx...)
Artist:	Alex Raymond (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	853
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	10/28/2018
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Description

I was sold when saw this Rip Kirby daily from September 20th 1950 :-)
It wasn't only the awesome artwork for shadows, reflections & shadings from the water, gents dresses but the dialogue too:

I'D ROW THE STYX!

Striking dialogue in this daily is simply perfect, and maybe echoing something from the past when father of hard-boiled detective novels, Dashiell Hammett wrote and Raymond drew & inked Secret Agent X-9. I guess Raymond learned then a lot about writing and dialogue, to be used later in his own Rip Kirby stories.
Also cleverly positions changed for the classical situation "do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes" (first time stated by William Prescott in Battle of Bunker Hill 1775); so the reader is now captured into the boat too, to be wondering is whites of own eyes now revealing something...? ;-) At least that there is Alex Raymond fan reading this.

Provenance of the artwork: earlier in the Al Williamson Collection.

#AlexRaymond; #RipKirby

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	Matti Eronen
Joined:	March 2017
Last Login:	September 2025
Website:	http://Illusi0n.com
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Monty B
Member Since 2006

Posted on 10/28/2018

Wonderful daily from a great storyline...congrats Matti!!! :-)

Thomas Ward
Member Since 2004

Posted on 10/28/2018

Congrats on this wonderful daily, love the storyline!

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