Nancy

Lovely looking book, but it's described as funny & it's just not. Bit disappointed.

I love this book! I bought it for my middle-aged daughter Nancy because it reminds me of her as a child.

A really nice, hardcover collection of Nancy comic books from 1957-58. I was a little surprised by how well these comics still hold up today. Most of them are pretty funny, and sometimes I even laughed out loud. It’s really a delight to get to read these!Unlike the newspaper strip, these comics have a chance to stretch out a bit (though I think all the stories are still less than ten pages long) and develop some, I think, new characters, like Oona Goosepimple and Bill Bungle/Bumble, though the comics are still centered around Nancy and/or her pal Sluggo.The artwork seems scanned from the original, aged, pamphlet comics and doesn’t seem to have been cleaned up much or at all. Some pages looks a little dark, but are still perfectly readable. I guess overall I do like the way they’ve pretty much reproduced the pages close in feel to how they would look if you’ve picked up an original today, though printed on much higher quality paper and in a durable, hardcover format.

If only the covers of the original comics were included. Otherwise 5 stars! The stories seem to be scanned from the original comics, and they look great, ignore the reviewers who crave bright white paper; the "restoration" process inevitably degrades the art. Unless the original art is available (like the EC Library), good quality scans of the original books like this is the way to go.Oh yeah, and the stories are great no matter what!

There were some negative reviews because the pages weren't 'white'. Didn't bother me. They went for a "vintage patina". Good comics.