[Theepistle] lesliecharteris.com

[Delmo Walters Jr.]

The Saint comic strips collected? Talk about great news! What with the Bond comic strip reprints almost complete, I was hoping Titan Books might follow that with The Saint. Glad some company is.

Delmo Walters Jr.


--- On Thu, 2/5/09, Dick Lochte <dlochte at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dick Lochte <dlochte at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Theepistle] lesliecharteris.com
> To: ian.dickerson at gmail.com, theepistle at fascicle.org
> Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 1:33 PM
> Ian, the posting re a new collection of the Saint comic
> strips kindled a
> recollection of a similar project I attempted several
> decades ago, via a
> comic entrepreneur named Ken Pierce. LC's reply to our
> query letter stated
> that he would be pleased with such a collection but that he
> felt he had no
> say in the matter, that it was up to the Herald Tribune
> (which was still in
> operation and was in control of the discontinued strip.) We
> got boggled down
> at the Her-Trib syndicate and gave up the project. But the
> thing of note was
> that LC said he much preferred the art of John Spranger to
> that of Mike Roy.
> He also suggested we begin with the strip adventure that
> gave birth to "The
> Saint in Pursuit."
>  
> I would never have gone against his wishes, but I disagreed
> with his choice
> of artists. Roy's work ran hot and cold, but when he
> was at his best during
> the strips early years, with Jack Davis (I believe) doing
> the inking, he had
> a style that was not only unique but seemed a perfect fit
> for Charteris'
> storylines. The characters leapt off the page. Spranger was
> fine, but fairly
> conventional. And I'll never forgive him for giving
> Templar a rather Satanic
> moustache and van dyke beard (or could that have been
> LC's idea?).
>  
> Dick Lochte
>  
>  
>  
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