Dragon Lady Press
Encyclopedia
Toronto-based Dragon Lady Press was the publishing wing of the Dragon Lady Comics store. Its publications were distributed through the direct market
throughout the United States and Canada. This company was known for its reprints of classic newspaper comic strips in various forms. It existed in the late 1980s.
Direct market
The direct market is the dominant distribution and retail network for North American comic books. It consists of one dominant distributor and the majority of comics specialty stores, as well as other retailers of comic books and related merchandise...
throughout the United States and Canada. This company was known for its reprints of classic newspaper comic strips in various forms. It existed in the late 1980s.
Titles
- Alley OopAlley OopAlley Oop is a syndicated comic strip, created in 1932 by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the popular and influential strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association...
Quarterly, 3 issues - Buz SawyerBuz SawyerBuz Sawyer was a popular comic strip created by Roy Crane and highly regarded by comic strip historians. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, it had a long run from November 1, 1943 to 1989. The last strip signed by Crane was dated 21 April 1979....
Quarterly, 3 issues - Classic Adventure Strips, 16 issues
- Dragon Lady Press Presents, 16 issues
- Johnny HazardJohnny HazardJohnny Hazard was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Frank Robbins for King Features Syndicate. It was published from 1944 until 1977 with separate storylines for the daily strip and the Sunday strip.-Day before D-Day:...
, 10 issues - Red RyderRed RyderRed Ryder was a popular long-running Western comic strip created by Stephen Slesinger and artist Fred Harman. Beginning Sunday, November 6, 1938, Red Ryder was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association, expanding over the following decade to 750 newspapers, translations into ten languages and...
- Science Fiction Classics
- Thrilling Adventure Strips, 16 issues
- Wash TubbsWash TubbsWash Tubbs was a comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from April 14, 1924 to January 10, 1988.Initially titled Washington Tubbs II, it originally was a gag-a-day strip which focused on the mundane misadventures of the title character, a bespectacled bumbler who ran a store. However, Crane soon...
, 7 issues