Hägar The Horrible: Giant Size No. 3
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What happens when a lovably dim, perpetually pillaging Viking meets the absurdities of everyday medieval life? Pure comic gold. Hägar the Horrible: Giant Size No. 3 is the third oversized collection of Dik Browne's iconic newspaper comic strip, gathering a bumper crop of strips starring the rotund, horn-helmeted Norse warrior Hägar, his long-suffering wife Helga, his hapless son Hamlet, and a cast of brilliantly eccentric characters. Self-billed as the third BIG collection of the original male chauvinist pig, this anthology delivers page after page of rapid-fire gags rooted in the comic clash between Viking-age bravado and the timeless, inescapable demands of domestic life. Dik Browne, co-creator of the beloved Hi and Lois strip, crafted Hägar as a masterpiece of comic timing and visual wit — a character whose bluster is perpetually undone by his own incompetence and the steely common sense of those around him. Browne's deceptively simple line art carries enormous expressive power, wringing maximum humour from minimal strokes. The strip ran in thousands of newspapers worldwide and remains one of the most widely syndicated comic strips in history, and collections like this one illustrate exactly why: the comedy is universal, the characters are irresistible, and the laughs are relentless. Whether Hägar is botching a raid or dodging Helga's rolling pin, one question lingers — who is the real power behind that Viking longship?
Author: Dik Browne
Format: Paperback
Genre: Cartoons & comic strips
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What happens when a lovably dim, perpetually pillaging Viking meets the absurdities of everyday medieval life? Pure comic gold. Hägar the Horrible: Giant Size No. 3 is the third oversized collection of Dik Browne's iconic newspaper comic strip, gathering a bumper crop of strips starring the rotund, horn-helmeted Norse warrior Hägar, his long-suffering wife Helga, his hapless son Hamlet, and a cast of brilliantly eccentric characters. Self-billed as the third BIG collection of the original male chauvinist pig, this anthology delivers page after page of rapid-fire gags rooted in the comic clash between Viking-age bravado and the timeless, inescapable demands of domestic life. Dik Browne, co-creator of the beloved Hi and Lois strip, crafted Hägar as a masterpiece of comic timing and visual wit — a character whose bluster is perpetually undone by his own incompetence and the steely common sense of those around him. Browne's deceptively simple line art carries enormous expressive power, wringing maximum humour from minimal strokes. The strip ran in thousands of newspapers worldwide and remains one of the most widely syndicated comic strips in history, and collections like this one illustrate exactly why: the comedy is universal, the characters are irresistible, and the laughs are relentless. Whether Hägar is botching a raid or dodging Helga's rolling pin, one question lingers — who is the real power behind that Viking longship?