Ward Greene (writer), Alex Raymond (artist)
Rip Kirby: Grand Passion
King Features Syndicate, 1954
In 1954, as part of the Grand Passion story, Alex Raymond produced one of the most extraordinary sequences in the entire Rip Kirby series. The whole scene has an intense dreamlike quality, with the mesmerising fog effect, the ghostly appearance of Pagan Lee coming out from the shadows, that memorable kiss, and the masterful use of lines, silhouettes, black space and textures.
Here is the whole six-strip sequence:
