It’s been collected twice before, in 1959 by Grosset & Dunlap, and in 1987 by Kitchen Sink, so why get it again? Well, this time we are getting the whole shebang, every strip of the GI’s favorite dream girl, the sultry Miss Lace, in addition to unpublished art from the time.
The 1987 collection from Kitchen Sink:
The new collection from Hermes Press:
from http://www.hermespress.com/#
ISBN #1-932563-58-X
Hardcover, 156 pages, black and white and color
8.5″ x 11.75″ landscape
tween and up
Miss Lace is back and she’s with Hermes Press! Milton Caniff’s famous good girl, created just for servicemen during WW II, known to GI Joes everywhere as “Lace,” is available to all her fans in a deluxe hardcover art book reprinting the entire run of the strip. Move over Rita Hayworth, sultry, sassy Miss Lace and her daily adventures are being given royal treatment with a host of extras including a detailed intro by noted Caniff historian R.C. Harvey. Also including in this deluxe reprint of the strip is unused art, documentary materials, advertising art and more.