Best Crime Comics: Front Endpapers
The endpapers are black, as are the intersections between the...
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Best Crime Comics: “Old Gangsters…” Introduction
Peter Stanbury shaped the concept of the book around Film Noir, and the opening story in the anthology by Alan Moore, which has a cabaret setting, to bring all the varied stories together under one atmospheric theme: the interior of a darkened...
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Best Crime Comics: “The Portier Fortune” Introduction
Peter Stanbury selected an image from within each story making an extreme enlargement of it to increase the reader’s appreciation of the illustrator’s skill—in this case a delicious drawing of the character P’Gell by Will...
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Best Crime Comics: “Who Dunnit?” Introduction
Peter Stanbury also selected a quotation from each story, placed top left, to display the melodrama, and satire of the dialogue. Paul Gravett’s anecdotal introduction providing background and flavour of what is to come is place bottom...
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