{"product_id":"flash-gordon-dan-barry-dailies-volume-2-the-lost-continent","title":"FLASH GORDON DAN BARRY DAILIES Volume 2 The Lost Continent","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot your father's Flash Gordon! In 1951, Flash was rebooted. Formerly taking place in real time, and on Mongo, this reboot set Flash, Dale and Zarkov (and no other former characters) in the world ten years in the future and in our own solar system. The title story takes place on earth, but  eleven more episodes here take the adventurers to Mars, Ganymede, and finally to Mongo. SUPERLATIVE artwork is the highlight here--Barry is every bit as good as Murphy Anderson and you'll find it here.\n\nIn the first volume in this series, Dan Barry brought in other contributors including Harvey Kurtzman, Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Roy Krenkel and Jack Davis. Some of these contributors may also be here, but it's not as easy to identify their contributions, and no credits are offered that we can find.\n\nThat said, I'm going to say again, this is wonderful artwork. If you know the early work of Carmine Infantino, I also find that style here. But Murphy Anderson is the closest I can make to a fair comparison. Barry drew \u003cem\u003eFlash Gordon\u003c\/em\u003e for an amazing 49 years, until 1990. For that reason, many modern comics fans have not seen his work, unless you kept up with the strip in the papers. Unlike so many other comics artists, Barry didn't return to comic books--ever.\n\nRick Norwood (\u003cem\u003eComics Review, Prince Valiant American Epic\u003c\/em\u003e) provides a long, informative, and well-illustrated introduction. It explains all this and more. He notes how prior to 1950, space fantasy was pretty primitive and not based on science. After the film \u003cem\u003eDestination Moon \u003c\/em\u003eand the advent of writers like Robert Heinlein, that all changed. \u003cem\u003eFlash Gordon\u003c\/em\u003e changed too, giving the strip far more realism but still the wonderful adventure we all love to read and see.\n\nNorwood speculates that artist \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Norris\u003c\/strong\u003e and Dan's brother \u003cstrong\u003eSy Barry\u003c\/strong\u003e may have assisted here. Story credits to to Dan himself, who eventually took over the writing, but here we should have work by \u003cstrong\u003eSid Jacobsen \u003c\/strong\u003eand by long-time DC writer and editor, \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Kanigher\u003c\/strong\u003e. In \"Space Circus,\" Flash actually meets someone from Mongo, our first glimpse of that iconic planet since Raymond had left the strip. Testing the waters for the return to Mongo in 1956, also here.\n\nFlash Gordon, the swash-buckling, all-American hero, is perhaps science fiction’s most enduring super-hero icon, as well as being the inspiration behind \u003cem\u003eStar Wars\u003c\/em\u003e,  and his own cult 1980s movie, as well as several generations of books, comics, merchandising, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Titan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59639672013086,"sku":"FGD02H","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/product_f_g_fgd02h-flash-gordon-lost-continent-dan-barry.jpg?v=1784471422","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/flash-gordon-dan-barry-dailies-volume-2-the-lost-continent","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}