{"product_id":"flash-gordon-dan-barry-sundays-volume-1-the-death-planet","title":"FLASH GORDON DAN BARRY SUNDAYS Volume 1 The Death Planet","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing the death of Mac Raboy in 1968, \u003cstrong\u003eDan Barry\u003c\/strong\u003e took over production of the Sunday Flash Gordon strip. This collection, the first ever, features the first three years of a run that would last for nearly five, from The Return of Chameleon, 1\/14\/68, to Radiation Giants, 12\/26\/71. Barry took over the dailies in the 1950s and those are often works of art, beginning with strips that collaborated with Frank Frazetta and Harvey Kurtzman in the early 1950s. These Sundays are equally fine. Interview with \u003cstrong\u003eBob Fujitani\u003c\/strong\u003e, who was Barry's assistant from 1969-1980, and a fabled Golden Age and Silver Age artist in his own right.\n\nThis begins with the last five months of Sundays drawn by Mac Raboy, which are gorgeous themselves, then Barry's work begins with assist from Fujitani. Bob Fuje, as he signed his work in the 1940s, began with stunning work on strips like The Hangman and Dollman in the early 1940s. By the early 1960s, he was a fan favorite for his work on Doctor Solar and other Dell\/Gold Key titles. He began as Barry's assistant just after that Silver Age period.\n\nScience fiction novelist and Wally Woods collaborator, \u003cstrong\u003eHarry Harrison\u003c\/strong\u003e, began working with Barry in 1958 and together they produced 47 complete stories between then and 1968. \u003cstrong\u003eRick Norwood\u003c\/strong\u003e talks about their tumultuous relationship (two creators with big egos) but also about the fine work they produced, bringing Flash into a more modern world of sci-fi from the by-then archaic world of Alex Raymond's original vision.\n\nBorn in 1923, \u003cstrong\u003eDan Barry’s\u003c\/strong\u003e long career in comics began in 1941 working for the Funnies Inc. Comic. He would go on to work for DC Comics, Timely, Lev Gleason, and Fawcett, among many other companies. Following his national service in the US Air Force, Barry returned to comics assisting Burne Hogarth on the Tarzan newspaper strip before taking over the daily strip in 1947. In 1951 he was hired to revive the Flash Gordon daily strip and in 1968 he took over the Sunday strip too. He would continue to draw Flash Gordon for nearly 50 years and drew comics right up to his death in 1997 at the age of 74.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Titan Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59639707238686,"sku":"FGS01H","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/product_f_g_fgs01h-flash-gordon-dan-barry.jpg?v=1784472502","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/flash-gordon-dan-barry-sundays-volume-1-the-death-planet","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}