Brad Ricca. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-64380-5
English professor Ricca nimbly narrates the adventures of two creative Cleveland, Ohio, teenagers who, in the 1930s, combined their youthful passions to create the story of the world’s greatest superhero. Siegel spent his early years reading pulp...
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Brad Ricca. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-07224-5
Ricca (Super Boys) provides a fascinating account of Grace Humiston, a pioneering attorney in the early 20th century, dubbed “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes” by the press for her investigative prowess. The author effectively employs a novelist’s techniques to
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Brad Ricca. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-20701-2
Biographer Ricca (Mrs. Sherlock Holmes) delivers an illuminating portrait of Scottish aristocrat Olive MacLeod, who set out in 1910, at age 30, to find her fiancé, the naturalist Boyd Alexander, after he went missing in Africa. Drawing extensively...
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Brad Ricca. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-27360-4
Ricca follows up Olive the Lionheart with another cinematic history of a European aristocrat’s adventures in distant lands. In 1909, Montague “Monty” Parker, an English nobleman and veteran of the Second Boer War, led an expedition to Palestine in...
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Nellie Bly, Brad Ricca, and Courtney Sieh. Gallery 13, $19.99 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-982-14065-6
Sieh’s detailed ink drawings, reminiscent of 19th-century etchings, coupled with a hard-boiled adaptation by Ricca (Super Boys), retell the groundbreaking journalism of Bly, a reporter who went undercover to expose abuses at Blackwell’s Asylum in...
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