Captain Easy: Soldier of Fortune

If you blended the sexy and insouciant Han Solo, the disreputable, self-centered Charlie Allnut (Bogart's role in The African Queen), and noble Southern fighter John Carter of Mars, you might get the figure of Captain Easy, Roy Crane's flyboy adventurer who had a knack for finding lost kingdoms, beautiful women, treasures galore, and commensurate dangers. This first volume out of four reprints, at generous dimensions and with vibrant colors, the "world's first adventure newspaper strip," still as enjoyable as at its birth.

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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