Flash Gordon 4 Strips sets

Set 1:

Flash Gordon Dailies: Dan Barry Volume 1: The City of Ice 

is a must-read for all science fiction lovers!

It contains 7 Dailies (Nov. 1951 - Oct. 1953) by Dan Barry.

D2-001 - "Space Prison" (11/19/51 to 2/16/52)

D2-002 - "The City of Ice" (2/18/52 to 6/14/52)

D2-003 - "The Butterfly Men" (6/16/52 to 8/9/52)

D2-004 - "Tartarus" (8/11/52 to 10/18/52)

D2-005 - "The Awful Forest” (10/20/52 to 12/30/52)

D2-006 - "Mr. Murlin” (12/31/52 to 4/20/53)

D2-007 - "The Space Kids on Zoran” (4/21/53 to 10/24/53)

Set 2:

Flash Gordon Dailies: Dan Barry Volume 2: The Lost Continent

Author: Harry Harrison

Artist: Dan Barry

It contains 9 dailies (Oct 26 1953 - Oct 29th 1955).

D2-008 - "The Lost Continent” (10/26/53 to 3/20/54)

D2-009 - "Circea” (3/22/54 to 5/29/54)

D2-010 - "The Deadly Touch” (5/31/54 to 8/30/54)

D2-011 - "Peril Park” (8/31/54 to 11/13/54)

D2-012 - "The Martian Baby” (11/15/54 to 2/5/55)

D2-013 - "The Trail of the Vulke” (2/7/55 to 4/26/55)

D2-014 - "Tympani” (4/27/55 to 7/9/55)

D2-015 - "Starling” (7/11/55 to 9/3/55)

D2-016 - "Space Circus” (9/5/55 to 10/29/55)

Set 3:

Flash Gordon Sundays: Dan Barry Vol. 1: The Death Planet

Following the death of Mac Raboy in 1968, Dan Barry took over production of the Sunday Flash Gordon strip. This collection contains 12 Sundays (S107-S118) - The Return of Chameleon 1/14/68, which Dan Barry completed after Raboy’s death, to Radiation Giants in 12/26/71.

S107 - "The Return of the Chameleon" (1/14/68 to 8/11/68)

S108 - "Colony on Pluto" (8/18/68 to 12/29/68)

S109 - "The Robot World" (1/5/69 to 6/8/69)

S110 - "Invasion!" (6/15/69 to 11/9/69)

S111 - "Assignment on Pluto" (11/16/69 to 3/29/70)

S112 - "The Matter Transmitter" (4/5/70 to 7/12/70)

S113 - "Trouble on Venus" (7/19/70 to 10/25/70)

S114 - "The Cosmic Tower" (11/1/70 to 2/7/71)

S115 - "The Death Planet" (2/14/71 to 5/2/71)

S116 - "Robot War" (5/9/71 to 7/18/71)

S117 - "The Planet Krogius" (7/25/71 to 10/24/71)

S118 - "Radiation Giants" (10/31/71 to 12/26/71)

Set 4:

Flash Gordon Volume 4: Storm Queen Of Valkir

Author: Don Moore

Artist: Austin Briggs

Featuring four years worth of non-stop exhilarating, science fiction action-adventure as Flash battles a rogue’s gallery of villainy to protect the innocent, the wronged and a bevy of beautiful women from the likes of Kang The Cruel, Queen Valker the Violent, giant birds, lizards, sea-beasts and rock men, as well as wolfmen and gas spiders! For Flash Gordon, the king of the cliff-hanger every Sunday is a day of action!

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Two words about Authors and illustrators of these 4 volumes:

Alexander Gillespie Raymond Jr., popular as Alex Raymond (October 2, 1909 – September 6, 1956): Alex Raymond was the creator of Flash Gordon 

Notable works: Flash Gordon; ‎Rip Kirby

Don Moore (1904-1986): Don Moore was the writer of the Flash Gordon, taking over scriptwriting duties from strip creator Alex Raymond in August 1935. Moore was a former pulp editor.

Raymond was the creator of several strips at the time; Flash Gordon, Secret Agent X-9, Jungle Jim; and needed Moore's scripting assistance. Moore lasted on the strip beyond Raymond's tenure

Austin Briggs (August 9, 1908 – October 10, 1973): After working for a while at 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 drew the prestigious Flash Gordon Sunday strip from 1944 until 1948He was one of the founding faculty for the Famous Artists School. In 1969 he was elected to the Society of Illustrators’ Hall of Fame.

Daniel Barry (11 July 1923 - 25 January 1997, USA) aka Dan Barry was the elder brother of 'Phantom' artist Sy Barry. He began his career working in the comic book field through George and Alan Mandel in 1941. Working through shops like Funnies Inc, Otto Binder's and Bernard Baily's studios, he worked on features for companies like Timely ('Scottie'), Feature Comics ('Black Owl'), Hillman ('Airboy', 'Boy King', 'Skywolf') and Fawcett ('Spy Smasher'). After a short interlude in the air force, Dan Barry continued his comic book career. He did freelance work for several magazines, and in 1947-48 he drew the 'Tarzan' daily strip. In the second half of the 1940s he also did the promotional 'Buster Brown' comic for Buster Brown Shoes (based on the eponymous comic strip by Richard F. Outcault), and various crime features for National/DC.

In 1951, Barry was asked by King Features Syndicate to revive the 'Flash Gordon' daily strip. Barry worked on the science fiction strip until the 1990s, working with writers like Harry Harrison and Julian May, and being assisted over the years by artists like Bob Fujitani, Fred Kida and Frank Frazetta. In 1967 he also took on the 'Flash Gordon' Sunday page, following Mac Raboy's death. Barry left 'Flash Gordon' entirely in 1990, and began working as a writer/artist on 'Indiana Jones' comic books published by Dark Horse. He drew the official 1980s movie poster.

In Indrajal Comics (1964-1990, India), the mostly Flash Gordon stories were by Dan Barry. Can catch all those at our blog: indrajal-online.blogspot.com