Hermes Press adds yet another important title to its line-up of classiccomic book and comic strip reprints with Brenda Starr, Reporter by DaleMessick: The Collected Daily and Sunday Strips.
Created by Dale Messick, the first woman to create, draw, and write asyndicated newspaper strip, Brenda Starr successfully mixed romance,fashion, and adventure into one of the longest running features in newspaperhistory. Even though the strip will officially end its syndicated run on January2, 2011, the feature will continue through Hermes Press’ reprints of thestrip’s early years.
The first volume of this series will reprint, for the first time, the firsttwo Sunday storylines in full color. Hermes Press is digitally restoring theseSundays so that they look better than when they were first released. Alsofeatured in this volume will be the first “Man of Mystery” storyfeaturing Brenda’s love interest, Basil St. John. Brenda Starr,Reporter started as a Sunday-only strip, but by October 22, 1945 a dailyversion of the feature also appeared. The first daily sequence will also befeatured in the first volume of Hermes Press’ reprint.

Visual artist(s): Dale Messick