Hawks of the Sea

In 1937, comics grand master Will Eisner jump-started the comic-book medium. Using the name Willis B. Rensie, the then 20-year-old artist began writing and illustrating an action-packed weekly serial called Hawks of the Seas -- a pirate adventure series set in the 18th-centry Caribbean -- creating one dynamic strip after another, honing his storytelling craft, and shaping the comics medium with each one. From 1937 to 1939, Eisner's Hawks of the Seas weekly stories were translated into several different languages and distributed all overv the world, and now they're collected here in this handsome hardcover edition. The stories themselves stand the test of time, as thrilling and exciting as they were almost 70 years ago.