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Rick Random: Space Detective: 10 of the Best Space Adventure Picture Library Comic Books Ever! Paperback – 6 Oct. 2008

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Rick Random, Space Detective, was a comic book character who appeared in "Super Detective Library", published by Amalgamated Press, from 1954.His first appearance was in the "Super Detective Library" number 37 in a tale titled "Crime Rides the Spaceways". Random worked for the Interplanetary Bureau of Investigation, and among his arch-enemies was a futuristic bank robber, John Jolson, who used a matter transmitter in one story to steal gold from London's Interplanetary Bank. Random's female companion was Detective Superintendent Andi Andrews.Rick Random proved as difficult to kill off in the real world as he did in his sci-fi adventures. He was resurrected in the late seventies in 2000 AD, where he enjoyed a whole new audience.Now you can enjoy ten of Rick's original interplanetary adventures all over again, with the wonderful artwork of Ron Turner reproduced larger and more excitingly than ever before.

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656 pages
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Prion Books Ltd
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6 Oct. 2008
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18.9 x 5.5 x 22.6 cm
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1853756733
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978-1853756733
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Steve Holland is the author of over 1,000 articles and a dozen books relating to comics and pulp culture, including The Trials of Hank Janson, nominated for the Silver Dagger Award by the Crime Writers Association. His latest book, The War Libraries Index charts the extraordinary history of Fleetway's war picture libraries.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prion Books Ltd; 1st edition (6 Oct. 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 656 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1853756733
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1853756733
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.9 x 5.5 x 22.6 cm

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Steve Holland has been a freelance author and editor for over twenty years. He began writing seriously in the mid-1980s and went full time in 1990 since when he has had over 1,500 articles published and written or edited over 50 books. An expert on British comics and pulp paperbacks, he has appeared numerous times on radio and television. His The Mushroom Jungle was nominated for an Anthony award at Bouchercon and The Trials of Hank Janson was a runner-up for the Crime Writers' Association's Silver Dagger Award for non-fiction. He is an avid blogger, posting at Bear Alley. Since 2011 he has published a range of books through his Bear Alley Books imprint, ranging from reprints of and indexes to classic comics to biographies and reprints of classic thrillers.

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Robert P. Shaw

Incomplete and edited but good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 October 2022

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A nice collection of classic British comic art. Good stories (for the time) too. Most of the cigarette smoking has been edited out, which leads to some odd postures at times!

This is *not* a complete collection by any means, but is still a good effort - a taster, if you like.

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Lewis Stringer

A must-buy for fans of British comics

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2008

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With all the many books on classic UK comics appearing these days (from Commando to Modesty Blaise) people can't afford to buy everything. However, if you're trying to choose between Rick Random and the other Fleetway library reprints I'd suggest this is the best one to get.

Over 600 pages of artwork by Ron Turner makes it well worth the price. He proves here to be a master of black and white composition and his retro-future designs are fantastic. The stories are solidly crafted well-told tales and are more sophisticated than those of the Fleetway weeklies of the period.

The only faults are that, because the pages are scanned from the old comics and not the long-lost original art, some of the finer lines in some pages have "dropped out". (Everything is still legible though.) On the whole reproduction is very good and the best one can expect. Try this book, - it's a British classic!

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Fernando José Pereira Matias

Amazon is the best place to find the books that you love

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 March 2021

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Excelent Comic Book. Excelent delivery and arrived earlier than expected. I'm
very pleased with book.

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Ventura Angelo

Wonderful, quaint sci-fi

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2008

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Rick random's stories are a delight to read. Quaint science-fiction, yet more plausible than some of Flash Gordon an Dan Dare adventures, they somewhat predate Jeff Hawke in their matter-of.fact approach. the graphic is fantastic, expecially in the "Emperor Moon" and "Robot Planet" stories.
A must have for thescience Fiction comic collector!

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J. Hayes

Great Ron Turner art

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 March 2014

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Quite a hefty volume (656 pages) of Rick Random strips from Fleetway's Super Detective Library, the 64 page, digest-size, black and white comics that were so popular in the fifties and sixties. There are ten stories reprinted, slightly larger than their original format, and all feature superb artwork by the great Ron Turner - so famous for his spaceships and space architecture. They are compiled by Steve Holland who provides an introduction, and are presented in a handsomely bound softback volume with a great Ron Turner cover. Terrific stuff and great value.

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MKN

A nice compilation of weird old sci-fi adventures

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2014

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Well, nothing to complain, bought it as a weird gift. Sorry to say it did not contain the story I was looking for but I can live with that :)

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Maurice Caperan

They could have done an even better Ron Turner-Only album

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 November 2014

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Absolutely superb. They could have done an even better Ron Turner-Only album, but one bad not by him is OK.

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R. D. Packer

Rick Random: Space Detective

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2009

Another blast from the past for me. The artwork still appeals to me even if everybody in the stories smokes and acts human..............Lots of happy memories of school days long gone. Many thanks. Rick Random: Space Detective: 10 of the Best Space Adventure Picture Library Comic Books Ever!

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