This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Captain Easy</i> comic strip shows the title character enjoying the fictitious Mediterranean Republic of Dizmaylia with his date, Lolita. He later discovers that she works for his enemies.
Leslie Turner (1899-1988) prepared freelance illustrations in Dallas in his early years. When he sold a cartoon to <i>Judge,</i> he moved to New York and began contributing to publications such as <i>Redbook</i> and <i>Pictorial Review.</i> In 1937 Turner took a job as an assistant to Roy Crane, creator of the <i>Captain Easy</i> newspaper strip, which was then called <i>Wash Tubbs.</i> Turner took over the strip in 1943 and continued to draw it, with some assistance from Walt Scott, until he retired in 1970.
<i>Captain Easy,</i> (1933-1988) an adventure strip originally called <i>Wash Tubbs,</i> starred an eccentric character named Washington Tubbs II. The Captain Easy character was included in a supporting role. In 1933 creator Roy Crane retitled the strip and remodeled it to highlight the new protagonist who joined the U.S. army during World War II, and later became a private detective.
