Hermes Press has announced the January, 2011 release of Roy Rogers: The Collected Daily and Sunday Newspaper Strips ($49.99).  The 224-page, 8” x 10” hardcover with printed laminated cover and dust jacket reprints one-and-a-half years of the daily strip (in black and white) and 12 complete color continuities of the Sunday strip. 

Roy Rogers, who was known as “the King of the Cowboys” was at the height of his popularity in the 1950s, and this volume presents a representative sampling of the strip’s 12-year run including all the art that the talented Alex Toth produced for the Roy Rogers comic along with the work of other key artists including Mike Arens, Pete Alvardo, and Tom, Chuck, and Bob McKimson.

Comics historian Tim Lasuita provides a detailed essay on the history of the Roy Rogers comic strip illustrated with artwork, movie posters, ads featuring Roy, Dale, and Trigger, as well as pictures of Roy Rogers toys—all documenting Roy’s tremendous influence on the pop culture of the 1950s.