{"product_id":"black-condor-the-ray-1","title":"Black Condor \u0026 the Ray Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eFeatured here is story after story by the legendary \u003cstrong\u003eLou Fine, \u003c\/strong\u003eone of the most impressive and influential artists to ever work in comics. His fluid figures were admired and copied by such greats as Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. In the early 40's, the heyday of the Golden Age, he worked at Quality Comics along with such greats as\u003cstrong\u003e Reed Crandall, Jack Cole\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eWill Eisner\u003c\/strong\u003e and in addition to his impressive covers, he worked on such comics as the Black Condor and created The Ray.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso here: \u003cstrong\u003eWill Eisner, Otto Binder,  John Cassone, Charles Sultan, John Belfi \u003c\/strong\u003eand \u003cstrong\u003eRudy Palais,\u003c\/strong\u003e all superior artists working on two of Quality's strongest feature characters. Quality Comics Group prided themselves on excellent artwork from the likes of the artists above. They didn't produce the same long-running heroes and heroines as Timely\/Marvel and DC did -- with the possible exception of Plastic Man and Blackhawk -- and Eisner created The Spirit for the newspapers, so even though Quality reprinted the stories, they don't get credit for the character. Eisner owned it himself and kept total control over it his entire life. But that said, they had many fine feature characters. These are two of their best. They put their best artists on them, they were featured on many covers of \u003cem\u003eSmash \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eCrack, \u003c\/em\u003eand after Lou Fine left, Reed Crandall stepped in to do more with The Ray.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollects the Black Condor stories in \u003ci\u003eCrack Comics\u003c\/i\u003e #1-11, 1940-41; and The Ray stories from \u003ci\u003eSmash\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eComics\u003c\/i\u003e #14-22, 1940-41.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PS Art Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59641426149662,"sku":"BLACR01","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/blacr01-black-condor-vol-1-book.jpg?v=1784505678","url":"https:\/\/budsartbooks.com\/products\/black-condor-the-ray-1","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}