Idw Publishing's "Crime Comics Confidential", available May 5, 2021, with 20 fully restored vintage stories, is edited by Steven Brower and illustrated by 'Golden Age' comic book artists John Buscema, Alex Toth, Gene Colan, Bernie Krigstein, Reed Crandall, Everett Raymond Kinstler and a whole lot more:
"...relive the days when ruthless, moronic gangsters ruled the streets, in this gripping collection of notorious vintage 'pre-Code' crime comics.
"True life degenerate criminals including 'Al Capone', 'Legs Diamond', 'Pretty Boy Floyd', 'Dutch Schultz', 'Lucky Luciano' and 'John Dillinger' are featured alongside colorful pulp fiction characters with rods ablaze.
"These mobsters flaunted their sexy gun molls and ill-gotten gains of big cars and fancy suits...
"...living outside the law until getting their just desserts in the end."
Illustrators include Charles Biro, Dick Briefer, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Jack Cole, Reed Crandall, Fred Guardineer, Everett Raymond Kinstler,...
"...relive the days when ruthless, moronic gangsters ruled the streets, in this gripping collection of notorious vintage 'pre-Code' crime comics.
"True life degenerate criminals including 'Al Capone', 'Legs Diamond', 'Pretty Boy Floyd', 'Dutch Schultz', 'Lucky Luciano' and 'John Dillinger' are featured alongside colorful pulp fiction characters with rods ablaze.
"These mobsters flaunted their sexy gun molls and ill-gotten gains of big cars and fancy suits...
"...living outside the law until getting their just desserts in the end."
Illustrators include Charles Biro, Dick Briefer, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Jack Cole, Reed Crandall, Fred Guardineer, Everett Raymond Kinstler,...
- 2/6/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Us actor whose success as the scruffy TV detective Columbo was complemented by a wide range of stage and screen roles
Show-business history records that the American actor Peter Falk, who has died aged 83, made his stage debut the year before he left high school, presciently cast as a detective. Despite the 17-year-old's fleeting success, he had no thoughts of pursuing acting as a career – if only because tough kids from the Bronx considered it an unsuitable job for a man. Just 24 years later, Falk made his first television appearance as the scruffy detective, Columbo, not only becoming the highest paid actor on television – commanding $500,000 an episode during the 1970s – but also the most famous.
Inevitably the lieutenant dedicated to unravelling the villainy of the wealthy and glamorous dominated his career, although – unlike some actors – he escaped the straitjacket, or in his case shabby raincoat, of typecasting. In addition to stage work,...
Show-business history records that the American actor Peter Falk, who has died aged 83, made his stage debut the year before he left high school, presciently cast as a detective. Despite the 17-year-old's fleeting success, he had no thoughts of pursuing acting as a career – if only because tough kids from the Bronx considered it an unsuitable job for a man. Just 24 years later, Falk made his first television appearance as the scruffy detective, Columbo, not only becoming the highest paid actor on television – commanding $500,000 an episode during the 1970s – but also the most famous.
Inevitably the lieutenant dedicated to unravelling the villainy of the wealthy and glamorous dominated his career, although – unlike some actors – he escaped the straitjacket, or in his case shabby raincoat, of typecasting. In addition to stage work,...
- 6/26/2011
- by Brian Baxter
- The Guardian - Film News
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