Flash Gordon Dailies: Austin Briggs: Radium Mines Of Electra

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!

BRUCE JONES (born 1964) is an American comic book writer, novelist, screenwriter and illustrator. His pen names include Phillip Roland and Bruce Elliot. His work includes writing The Incredible Hulk from 2001-2005 for Marvel Comics. He wrote Flash Gordon from 1990 - 1992. During his career he's worked for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Vertigo, Eclipse Comics and Warren Publishing. He's written characters ranging from Conan the Barbarian, Ka-Zar, Batman, Deadman, Nightwing to Man-Bat. He's published several novels, including: Sprinter, Maximum Velocity, Game Running and under Bruce Elliot, Still Life and Death Rites. In 2004 he won the Inkpot Award.

Ralph Reese (born May 19, 1949) is an American artist who has illustrated for books, magazines, trading cards, and comic strips, including a year drawing the Flash Gordon strip for King Features. Prolific from the
1960s to the 1990s, he is best known for his continuing feature One Year Affair, serialized in the satiric magazine National Lampoon from 1973 to 1975. Reese early in his career worked in the studio of Wally Wood, assisting on
both mainstream and alternative-press comics and on trading cards. He drew many fantasy, horror and science-fiction stories for Marvel Comics, DC comics and Valiant Comics.

Gray Morrow (March 7, 1934 - November 6, 2001) was an American illustrator of comics and books. He is co-creator the Marvel Comics muck-monster the Man-Thing and El Diablo for DC Comics.
Throughout his prolific career he worked for, among others: Archie Comics, Charlton Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Eclipse Comics, Fantagraphics, Marvel Comics, Warren Publishing, Valiant Comics and Penthouse. He worked on the Flash Gordon strip with Ralph Reese and Bruce Jones from 1990 - 1991.

Austin Briggs (September 8, 1908 - October 10, 1973) he began providing illustrations for the classic pulp magazine Blue Book before becoming an assistant to the legendary Alex Raymond on Flash Gordon. In 1940 he took over the daily Flash Gordon strip from Alex and stayed on it until 1944. He was a profile illustrator and created
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.