His Name Is... Savage
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His Name Is... Savage is a 40-page, magazine-format comics novel released in 1968 as a precursor to the modern graphic novel. Created by the veteran American comic book artist Gil Kane, who conceived,
His Name Is... Savage #1. Cover art by Robert Foster
Splash panel. Art by Kane.
Fantagraphics' 1982 reprint, Gil Kane's Savage! Kane altered the protagonist's features to avoid the original edition's unauthorized use of actor Lee Marvin's likeness.
It Rhymes with Lust
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It Rhymes with Lust is a "picture novel" published in 1950. It is an early example of a graphic novel. It was written by Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller, with black-and-white art by Matt Baker and inke
His Name Is... Savage
…first full-length comics story in a non-comic book format since 1950, when St. John Publications issued the digest-sized hardboiled detective novellas It Rhymes with Lust and The Case of the Winking Buddha. Like them, Savage was also sold on newsstands rather than in book stores. Marvel Comics, shortly after Savage…
Original cover to It Rhymes with Lust, one precursor of the graphic novel. Cover art by Matt Baker and Ray Osrin.