EXTRACTS: Pirates! Illustrators Special Edition © 2020 The Book Palace (128 PAGES in Full edition)

14 The next pirate strip worthy of mention appeared on the front page of Knockout’ s companion paper, Comet , in 1951. It was entitled ‘Guy Gallant’ and was drawn by an artist new to comics, C. E. Drury. This strip, believed to have been scripted as well as drawn by him, helped to establish Drury as a first class period adventure artist with a most idiosyncratic, free style, containing just the right amount of flamboyant flourish for the dandified buccaneers of the 17th and 18th century. It was Drury who was given the opportunity to draw a strip version of one of the most famous pirate stories of them all, Rafael Sabatini’s ‘Captain Blood’, for the Thriller Comics Library . Faithfully adapted by JoanWhitford and with a