Nancy: Volume 1: The John Stanley Library

If only the covers of the original comics were included. Otherwise 5 stars! The stories seem to be scanned from the original comics, and they look great, ignore the reviewers who crave bright white paper; the "restoration" process inevitably degrades the art. Unless the original art is available (like the EC Library), good quality scans of the original books like this is the way to go.Oh yeah, and the stories are great no matter what!

There were some negative reviews because the pages weren't 'white'. Didn't bother me. They went for a "vintage patina". Good comics.

A really nice, hardcover collection of Nancy comic books from 1957-58. I was a little surprised by how well these comics still hold up today. Most of them are pretty funny, and sometimes I even laughed out loud. It’s really a delight to get to read these!Unlike the newspaper strip, these comics have a chance to stretch out a bit (though I think all the stories are still less than ten pages long) and develop some, I think, new characters, like Oona Goosepimple and Bill Bungle/Bumble, though the comics are still centered around Nancy and/or her pal Sluggo.The artwork seems scanned from the original, aged, pamphlet comics and doesn’t seem to have been cleaned up much or at all. Some pages looks a little dark, but are still perfectly readable. I guess overall I do like the way they’ve pretty much reproduced the pages close in feel to how they would look if you’ve picked up an original today, though printed on much higher quality paper and in a durable, hardcover format.

Beautiful hardcover edition. All pages are fullcollor perfect reproductions of the great originals. But once again, WHERE ARE THE ORIGINAL COVERS??? Someone at Drawn and Quarterly is messing up all this John Stanley collection. So please, in the next volumes, PLEASE, DON'T FORGET TO INCLUDE THE ORIGINAL COVERS!!! PLEASE!

My Aunt is half-way finish reading....and she is definitely very happy with it.

I love having the four volumes of Nancy comics. It was part of my childhood and it just delights me to read them! Oona Goosepimple influenced my life!

I was so disappointed buy this book! Not only doesn't it include the Nancy covers, but for some reason the lay-out person decided to print the Nancy pages on the most awful beige/orange kitschy fake old paper, which makes the drawings look like mud. Then he added a new, Nancy inspired, cover and designs (like a print of her skirt covering two pages) which I would say is irreverent. Why not use one of the original covers for the cover and respect the original work by printing it on normal paper?

My wife's childhood favorite. I got 5 stars for the book as a Christmas present. Now she has other Nancy books on her list....

Lovely looking book, but it's described as funny & it's just not. Bit disappointed.

I love this book! I bought it for my middle-aged daughter Nancy because it reminds me of her as a child.