Slingsby Bros, Ink! is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of our second volume of Judy strips, David Wright's Judy Episodes 120-197, originally published in 1955-1957.

Judy was David Wright's first comic strip after leaving behind his Sketch pinups and some brief comic book work in the early 1950's. An early product of this new direction was the strip Judy, which he began in 1953 with John Hunter (writing as Peter Meriton) providing scripts.

Judy is a standard adventure strip for the time&mdaash;a young, beautiful girl is thrust into danger with her partner, Ricky, and their treasure-hunting adventures take them to exotic locales all over the world in a series of loosely plotted melodramas.

From 1953-1957 Wright drew seven stories in the series, and our book Judy Episodes 1-119, reprinted the first four stories. This book reprints the fifth and sixth stories, episodes 120-197.

When we published the first Judy book earlier this year, we were still missing a number of episodes from later in the run, and it was doubtful we'd ever be able to find them. We also didn't know how interested collectors would be in the strip. But we wanted at least some of Judy to be available to fans, so we published the first four stories.

Now things have changed. With help from generous collectors and the British National Library, we have completed our image set, so we're back with the next two stories. The final Judy story, The Man Unknown, remains to be reprinted. It was drawn in a full tabloid format that doesn't fit well in a landscape format book, and we did not want to ask readers to rotate the book for those pages. But be assured, we do plan to print it!

• Contents: Stories 5-6, comprising episodes 120-197
• Source material: tearsheets
• Format: casebound
• Size: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (same as casebound Judy Episodes 1-119))
• Full color covers and interiors (black and white strips)
• Printed endpapers
• 100 pages