Nominated for three Eisner Awards! Presents every Sunday strip by Raymond from both classic strips together for the first time, in the oversized 12" x 16" champagne edition format. Created by Raymond in 1934, Flash Gordon is arguably the most famous science fiction comic strip of all time. It follows the adventures of the title character and his companions - Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov - as they leave Earth to discover the source of meteors that are threatening the planet, and get waylaid on the planet Mongo, where they battle the evil Ming the Merciless. The three Earthlings encounter one strange race after another, from the water-breathing Shark-Men of the Undersea Kingdom, to the winged Hawkmen, to the ferocious Tusk-Men. All the while, Flash finds himself in the arms of one beautiful woman after another - much to Dale Arden's chagrin. This gigantic volume collects every Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim from June 7, 1936 through March 5, 1939. The introductory material includes a look at the Flash Gordon movie serials. This volume is the second in a series of four.

Author Biography

Alex Raymond (1909-1956) is regarded, with Milton Caniff and Hal Foster, as one of the three giants of newspaper adventure strip artists. Raymond apprenticed with Chic Young on Blondie and Lyman Young onTim Tyler's Luck. The year 1934 was a major turning point in his career- he illustratedSecret Agent X-9, a new detective comic strip written by Dashiell Hammett, and then createdFlash Gordon and Jungle Jim. He leftX-9after a couple of years and continued drawingFlash and Jim, with a writing assist from Don Moore, until 1944, when he enlisted in the Marines. In 1946 Raymond created the ultimate post-War cool detective series,Rip Kirby, which is also available from the Library of American Comics.