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Review

“This is a visually stunning book… The real treat here is the ART! And I deliberately capitalise the word to emphasise just how beautiful Wood’s work is throughout the collection.” - Colm Creamer, Forbidden Planet International

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About the Author

Wallace Allan Wood (1927–1981) rebooted Marvel's Daredevil, designing the iconic costume that recently appeared on the smash hit Netflix series. He was one of the best and funniest cartoonists of the earliest iteration of Mad magazine and, thanks to his work on the EC Comics line, he is also widely considered one of America’s greatest science-fiction cartoonists. With his magazine anthology witzend, he helped pioneer underground/independent comics publishing.Steve Ditko continues to create comics in his studio in New York City.

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Product details

Hardcover: 288 pages

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books; 1 edition (March 25, 2014)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1606997025

ISBN-13: 978-1606997024

Product Dimensions:

7.2 x 1.5 x 11 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.0 out of 5 stars

23 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#220,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

As most of us know, Wood self-published a 4-volume paperback collection of these strips in the 1970s. Fantagraphics' reprint is actually superior. The blacks are blacker, the paper is better, it's hardback and the overall clarity of Wood's outstanding artwork is superior in this new book. Not to mention, each strip measures 2 7/8" x 9 1/2", as opposed to Wood's original publications' measurements of 2 1/2" x 8 1/2". So it's an absolute 5-star production. EXCEPT... Incredibly, Fantagraphics took it upon themselves to edit one of the best panels, see pgs. 188-189. Diego Cordoba has mentioned it in his review. I almost didn't buy this book because of it, but caved in because the rest of the book is so great. A vertical, 3-panel nude has been edited to fit the horizontal elongated pages of this book, so that only her head appears. Fantagraphics throws us a bone by including a postage-stamp sized repro of the original page. All they had to do was turn the panel sideways. If they were concerned about breaking the "story" sequence (not much of a story- the draw of course is Wood's art), they could've at least included the full panel somewhere in the appendix. This blunder is almost as bad as leaving the last page out of "The Forbidden Room" in the Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 3. Except in this case they're playing it off like they did it intentionally. "For this edition of Cannon we chose to alter the way in which the material was originally presented... where the unavoidable alteration proved more intrusive than we would have liked..." Right. I can't believe they would knowingly do this... I'm inclined to think it was a mistake that somebody caught later, and tried to justify... Why would a publisher knowingly take the best sizable nude in a Wood art book and cut it down to the head only??? Unless somebody forgot that it was there?? Maybe they chose the format before they realized that there was a 3-panel-tall vertical nude included in the mix. Even so, all they had to do was turn the panel sideways and include it on the next page, or at the very least include it in the back of the book. Come on, Fantagraphics! I would've given the book 3 stars, but the slightly oversized strips and nice printing bump it up to a begrudging 4.

Wally Wood created the Cannon spy adventure strip for the Army's Overseas Weekly newspaper. Since people in the army were adults, he could draw a strip containing adult elements (that is to say, naked chicks) and not worry about the censorship that plagued comic books and newspaper comic strips back in the day. So Cannon did things that made James Bond look like a sissy, and was the toughest MF the commies ever ran into (remember, this was done during the cold war years, when the greatest threat America had, was communism). For the first months Woody really outdid himself, as it features some of his best artwork ever. By the end of the strip's run though, Woody relies mostly on paste-up jobs (sometimes of his own work), and very contrasted photocopies of cars and buildings that look like an inked drawing. Towards the end, you can see that his heart wasn't really into it anymore.The sad thing, for most of us Woody fans, was that to see this particular work you had to be in the army, as there was no other way of seeing it. Luckily for me I lived in France back then, and Woody's work was being reprinted over there thanks to Fershid Bharucha who was a big fan of some American comic book artists (such as Woody, Corben and Berni Wrightson), and published most of their work in Europe (well, at least in France). So I actually knew Cannon and Sally Forth before many other American comic book fans did. That said, when Cannon was finally collected for the first time as a softcover book by Fantagraphics, it was in its original black and white (in France it was colored) and in a rather large size (10,5 x 13').That was not too long ago, as the book came out in 2001. Now, Fantagraphics announce the book again, as a hardcover this time, and being "the biggest collection of Cannon, ever" (those are Fantagraphics' words, by the way). I don't know what they mean by "biggest", as the strips have the same wide format as the previous book, only this time instead of publishing it as a portrait (or vertical) format consisting of four rows of strips or panels per page (as it appeared in the army newspaper), they've printed each page with only two rows of panels (or cut down each page in half, if you prefer). While this isn't necessarily a problem, if Woody had kept drawing four rows of panels per page, it does present a problem with a particular page, which would be strip number 94 of the original format (and pages 188-89 in this book). For this page, Woody outdid himself and drew a big vertical panel covering three quarters of the left-side of the page. I remember this particular page, because it features a huge drawing of a naked girl talking on the phone. As each page is cut in half, it means that this panel had to be chopped as well, which Fantagraphics does almost unapologetically, offering us instead a stamp-sized image of what the page looked like in it's original format. Call this what you may, but to me it's a form of censorship (though I know they didn't do it for those reasons). The thing is that you should choose a format to publish your book accordingly. What is the purpose of printing the Mona Lisa in a landscape format, if you have to leave out two-thirds of the image because it doesn't quite fit the format? Of course, Fantagraphics is going to say it's only a panel, so who cares? Well I do!Also included, though printed very small, are the two Cannon stories Woody did for the proposed Heroes Inc comic books which apparently were never sold in newsstands, though I managed to get a copy of the first issue, that I believe was the only of the two issues ever published!That said, the only reason for buying this book again, for those who like me already had the previous edition, is that the artwork looks much better now. While in the previous book the mid-tones (done with zip-a-tone) came out too dark and muddy looking, they've fixed the problem, and it comes out much clearer. So it's up to you whether you want to buy it again (it's just like those cd's they keep remastering every ten years over and over again).However, for those who have never heard about Cannon, but have heard of Wally Wood, this book is a must! But be aware that Cannon features lots of naked broads and violent action. In other words, it's not meant for kiddies (though the sex isn't hardcore either). It's a product of its time though, featuring tough men and slutty girls, which pc-minded people might find offensive now, but was hilarious back then.I knock off a star for what they did to strip 94, as I explained earlier, and for telling us it's the biggest book yet, when in fact it's the same size as before. It's a pity American publishers don't print these books at an even larger size, but Woody's inking is so clean that even at a stamp-size it can be "read" (but that's not an excuse for printing small).

I think I first saw the great art of Wallace Wood in Captain Action or MARS Patrol by Gold Key. He just stands out among the greatest in the business and if you are unfamiliar with him this volume will show you why he was a master. It should be noted that this was an attempt at a mature comic work, high spy drama that does one better than Bond. Yes, those well drawn Women might have been Bond girls if they were flesh and blood BUT boy do their cloths come off quick. And Cannon cannot stop to get them cloths as they must flee one enemy or secret base before they are captured. Cannon is one step ahead of Bond, when Bond escapes at the end the Bond girls have their cloths on, Cannon's conquest rarely do. China supplies a deadly enemy for Cannon and she just might love him to death IF she can and Cannon is more than willing to help her.Mature reading? Not really but again an interesting read by the master with yes, some titillation in the mix. 3.5 stars from me.Also includes some info on the author and the strip as well as two comic book stories that never got wide distribution.Enjoy Cannon - wonder if someone will try to make a movie of this

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