That’s right, swashbucklers, whether you’re a fan of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise, classic films like Captain Blood, The Crimson Pirate, and The Sea Hawk, or even baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates (okay, maybe that last one’s a stretch), today’s your chance to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day. So let’s do it with a classic tale from comics’ Golden Age!
“The Ripper” was an entry in “Ghosts of Famous Pirates,” a series of one-page biographies that ran in the pages of the horror anthology series Witches Tales, published in the 1950s by Harvey Comics (home of Casper the Friendly Ghost and Richie Rich). This particular story appeared in Witches Tales #4, released in July 1951. Like most comic publishers at the time, Harvey had the same practice of not crediting its creators in its titles, so the identites of the writer and artist of “The Ripper” have been lost to history. Nice one-pager, though!
Speaking of swashbuckling adventures, StarWarp Concepts has exactly the kind of pirate-fantasy comic you’re looking for on this special date!
The Chronicles of the Sea Dragon Special is a one-shot digital comic created and written by Richard C. White, author of SWC’s supernatural superhero graphic novel Troubleshooters, Incorporated: Night Stalkings, as well as Terra Incognito: A Guide to Building the Worlds of Your Imagination, For a Few Gold Pieces More, and Harbinger of Darkness. Drawn by Bill Bryan (artist of Caliber Press’ Dark Oz and DC Comics’ House of Mystery), and featuring cover art and color by Eliseu Gouveia (SWC’s The Saga of Pandora Zwieback Annual #1, Lorelei: Sects and the City), it’s 48 pages of high-seas adventure for just 99¢!
Visit the Sea Dragon’s product page for more information, including sample pages.
