Sate your wanderlust with a brick of slam-bang action, boisterous humor, dangerous villains, even more dangerous women, and the promised treasure in this collection of Roy Crane’s classic Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs. Following our Eisner Award–nominated series of Roy Crane’s Captain Easy Sunday strip collections, we have selected the very best of the indispensable daily comic strip adventures of Easy and Tubbs. Featuring Wash running a dinky railroad in a comic-opera version of Eastern Europe, the gripping narrative of Easy waging total war against The Phantom King, battles with pirates in the South Seas, and the harrowing story of Easy and Wash as prisoners on the infamous Devil’s Island. Roy Crane mixes imagination, romance, and thrills in a masterful storytelling style that entices you over the next mountain, across the next ocean, toward the next horizon—and always to the next thrill-packed adventure! ...[A] blue-blooded brawler, squint-eyed and strapping, Easy was the prototype for countless silver-screen he-men yet to come. This selection of Wash and Easy s 'best' provides ample opportunity for Crane to spin out picaresque yarns of shipwrecks, rum-running, jailbreaks and other feats of derring-do ... [T]he strip gets leaner and more propulsive as it goes along, ...[and] Crane s cartooning achieves a brute and curious grace. --Sean Rogers" All of Fantagraphics' Roy Crane books the last few years have been beautiful and this one is no exception. --Tom Spurgeon" Royston Campbell Crane (1901-1977), who signed his work Roy Crane , created the comic-strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy, and Buz Sawyer. His work continues to inspire cartoonists today. Rick Norwood (b. 1942) is a comics historian, writer, mathematician, and professor. He wrote underground comics, founded the newspaper strip reprint publisher Manuscript Press in the 1970s, and is the editor of the magazine Comics Revue . He lives in Johnson City, Tennessee.