Leonard Starr's Mary Perkins On Stage Volume 9

Mary Perkins, On Stage #9

by Leonard Starr, Charles Pelto (Editor)

Volume Nine of Leonard Starr's Mary Perkins On Stage reprints dailies and Sundays from November 26, 1967 to May 10, 1969, with an introduction by Thomas B. Sawyer. Storylines inlcude the return of Maximus, Webster Ivie falls for the wrong woman, Cowboy star Galvin Galt, and the Fletchers as guests at the home of movie director Renzo di Saba.

264 pages, Paperback

First published October 24, 2011

About the author

Leonard Starr was a Golden Age comic book artist, an advertising artist and award-winning cartoonist, notable for creating the newspaper strip On Stage and reviving Little Orphan Annie.

Reviews

[Michael P.]

What a led down after this strips best years. There are basically five stories, though you can argue that the last very long story is two. Fine. The first three are about terrible women and feel misogynistic. The rest are ridiculously melodramatic, and one of those driven by coincidences (plural) that fail the credulity test. This begins, however, the last story (or two) that is thematically rich as Starr looks at various kinds of relationships and their stability. Put this way, this long sequence may seem worthwhile but I found the plot elements too facetious to respect.

[Kris Shaw]

Everyone, this is what you should be reading. This series has some of the best writing in the history of the medium. Leonard Starr is no slouch in the artwork department, either. Top shelf stuff that belongs in everyone's library.