Cannon Hardcover by Wallace Wood

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2018-01-02)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 296 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781606997024
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

Meet John Cannon, the perfect agent and America’s exploitative answer to James Bond, whose adventures are drawn the legendary Wallace Wood (Mad, EC Comics, Daredevil)!

Cannon appeared in Overseas Weekly, a newspaper distributed exclusively to U.S. Military bases around the world. Uncensored by commercial editorial restrictions, Wood pulled out all the stops — producing a thrilling and salacious Cold War spy serial run amok with brutal violence and titillating sex, all in an effort to boost morale and support our troops! Initially brainwashed by the terrifying, voluptuous, and always half-naked Madame Toy to be “the perfect assassin” for the Red forces, Cannon was eventually rescued and brainwashed (again) by the CIA until he had no emotions whatsoever. Under the employ of our government’s Central Intelligence Agency, Cannon experiences action like no other agent!

About the Author

Wallace Allan Wood (1927–1981) is widely considered to be America’s greatest science fiction cartoonist. But Wood could — and did — do it all: humor (a founding cartoonist of MAD), crime, superheroes, romance, war. He was also a pioneering alternative/underground cartoonist/publisher with his magazine witzend. Among many other honors, he was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1992.

Steve Ditko continues to create comics in his studio in New York City.

Best known for characters like his parodic 1980s American Flagg, Marvel’s Dominic Fortune, and DC’s revisionist Blackhawk — not to mention his controversial, X-rated Black Kiss and the first 10 issues of Marvel’s crowd-pleasing Star Wars series — writer-artist Howard Chaykin has prodded mainstream comics in challenging directions for more than 50 years, throwing pulp heroes and retro-science fiction into a postmodern blender with generous helpings of politics, sex, and satire.