Flash Gordon Dailies: Austin Briggs: Radium Mines Of Electra


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Collecting together, for the first time ever, over two-year’s worth of strips from the golden age of newspaper comic strips. Harken back to a bygone era of swashbuckling heroes, science fiction high-adventure, with ray guns, rocket ships, strange monsters, damsels in distress and unbridled heroism! FLASH GORDON, the swashbuckling, all-American hero has been saving Earth and the universe from madmen, megalomaniacs and Ming the Merciless since 1934. He is science fiction’s most enduring super-hero icon, and his name has become synonymous with heroic deeds. Flash Gordon is also the original inspiration behind Star Wars, the muse to rock super group, Queen and star of his own cult 1980s movie! This new volume is presents the continuing adventures of Flash Gordon, the original guardian of the galaxy as he strives to save us all from a slew of villains hell-bent of domination, destruction and devilment!







Flash Gordon: Dan Barry Vol. 2: The Lost Continent


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FLASH GORDON, the swash-buckling, all-American hero who's been saving Earth and the Universe from mad men, megalomaniacs and Ming the Merciless since 1934, is perhaps science fiction's most enduring super-hero icon, as well as being the inspiration behind Star Wars, the muse to rock super group, Queen and star of his own cult 1980's movie! Continuing the 1950's rebooted version of Flash Gordon as revitalized by the legendary Dan Barry. And collecting together the daily strip material from October 26 th 1953 - October 29th 1955.







Flash Gordon


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For the first time, those rollicking space adventures of Flash Gordon have been collected in one volume, a generously-sized book which reprints the strips from sharp artist's proofs.







Flash Gordon: On the Planet Mongo


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Beginning the complete library of the greatest science fiction hero of all time. Volume One will spotlight the work of Alex Raymond, legendary for some of the finest storytelling of the 20th century. Raymond illustrated the Sunday strips until 1944; with his clear and much-imitated style forming the original aesthetic of the most popular and easily recognised science fiction hero for decades to come. Introducing Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, Dr. Hans Zarkov, and Ming the Merciless, this volume will catapult readers to the deadly planet Mongo. These are the strips that influenced George Lucas to create Star Wars, and which illustrator Al Williamson said were "the reason I became an artist."




Flash Gordon: The Fall of Ming


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Continuing the comprehensive library of the greatest science fiction hero of all time, this brand new collection of library editions feature all new restorations that will preserve these legendary adventures for generations to come. Starting with revered writer-artist Alex Raymond, this volume continues the adventures of pulp hero Flash Gordon on the planet Mongo and his ongoing battles with the deadly and heartless Ming the Merciless.




W, Or, The Memory of Childhood


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Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader inexorably towards the horror that lies at the origin of the post-World War Two world and at the crux of his own identity.




America's Best Comics


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As one of the most influential writers in comics history, Alan Moore has penned such important and acclaimed titles as 2003's biggest selling graphic novel, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, part of Moore's own America's Best Comics imprint.