Considered the first comic book with original material ever produced,
1933's Detective Dan, Secret Op. 48 was a landmark. It only lasted one
issue before morphing into the Dan Dunn newspaper strip. A blatant copy
of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy (Norman Marsh had been an art assistant to
Gould), Dan Dunn was a rough and tumble Secret Service agent who exacted
violent retribution on any criminal who dared cross his path. This book
reprints the entire first year of daily comics.
LOAC Essentials reprints, one year at a time, the daily newspaper
strips that are essential to comics history, in a format that preserves,
as closely as possible, the original reader experience. By reproducing
the strips one per page in an oblong format, it allows us to have the
experience of reading the comics one day at a time. Each volume contains
seminal strips that are unique creations in their right and also
contributed to the advancement of the medium, along with panel-by-panel
annotations.