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While investigating crimes on both sides of the Atlantic, the urbanedetective encounters beautiful and conniving women, menacing men, jewel thieves,pickpockets, ex-Nazis, rich debutantes, spoiled heirs, kleptomaniac mothers,small town gossips, a fake Yogi named "The Great You," his recurring nemesis- the Mangler - and more than a murder or two. Meanwhile, thetension builds in his love triangle with Honey Dorian and Pagan Lee. The second volume of Alex Raymond's modernist classic Rip Kirbycontains nearly three years of strips, from December 6, 1948 through September22, 1951, all drawn in Raymond's incredibly lush style. Edited and designed by Eisner Award-winner Dean Mullaney, with abiographical and historical essay by Brian Walker, and an introduction by HowardChaykin.-The Library of American Comicsis the world's #1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips, with 14 EisnerAward nominations and three wins for best book. LOAC has become "the goldstandard for archival comic strip reprints...The research and articles provideinsight and context, and most importantly the glorious reproduction of thematerial has preserved these strips for those who knew them and offers a newgateway to adventure for those discovering them for the first time." -Scoop