Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Captain Easy</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-08-14
name: label: graphic artist
content: Turner, Leslie
label: publisher
content: NEA, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Captain Easy</i> comic strip shows the title character enjoying the fictitious Mediterranean Republic of Dizmaylia with his date, Lolita. He later discovers that she works for his enemies.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Leslie Turner (1899-1988) prepared freelance illustrations in Dallas in his early years. When he sold a cartoon to <i>Judge,</i> he moved to New York and began contributing to publications such as <i>Redbook</i> and <i>Pictorial Review.</i> In 1937 Turner took a job as an assistant to Roy Crane, creator of the <i>Captain Easy</i> newspaper strip, which was then called <i>Wash Tubbs.</i> Turner took over the strip in 1943 and continued to draw it, with some assistance from Walt Scott, until he retired in 1970.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Captain Easy,</i> (1933-1988) an adventure strip originally called <i>Wash Tubbs,</i> starred an eccentric character named Washington Tubbs II. The Captain Easy character was included in a supporting role. In 1933 creator Roy Crane retitled the strip and remodeled it to highlight the new protagonist who joined the U.S. army during World War II, and later became a private detective.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Military
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22332
label: catalog number
content: 22332
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 44.9 cm x 66.1 cm; 17 11/16 in x 26 in