FLASH GORDON #1 Dead or Alive by Austin Briggs

Publisher: Pacific Comics Club, Long Beach CA, 1981

LIMITED EDITION published for Club Member Collectors and states "Not for Retail Sale"

Large sized softcover reprint 10" X 13 3/4" tall.

Reprinting in large format Black & white Flash Gordon serial from 5/27/1940-8/26/1940

Condition is very nice is Used - VERY GOOD, Tight, clean copy. Usual softness & minor wear from handling & storage. Refer to image.

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Flash Gordon is the hero of a science fiction adventure comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by and created to compete with the already established Buck Rogers adventure strip.

Austin Briggs (August 9, 1908 – October 10, 1973) was a cartoonist and illustrator. Born in Humboldt, Minnesota he grew up in Detroit, Michigan before moving to New York City as a teenager. After working for a while at an advertising agency, he became an assistant to the cartoonist Alex Raymond on Flash Gordon and succeeded him on Secret Agent Corrigan. In 1940 he drew a Flash Gordon Daily strip which he stayed on until about 1944; he moved onto creating illustrations for books and magazines such as Readers Digest and The Saturday Evening Post. He was one of the founding faculty for the Famous Artists School.

In 1969 he was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. [wiki]

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