classid=”clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D” id=ieooui> The Flash Gordon Serials, 1936-1940: A Heavily Illustrated Guide By Roy Kinnard, Tony Crnkovich, and R.J. Vitone McFarland & Co. Publishers, August 2008, $55 Growing up in New York during the 1960s meant that Sunday morning we were treated to two choices: Sonny Fox on Channel 5’s [[[Wonderama]]] or the zany Chuck McCann…
Full disclosure: I had edited a [[[Flash Gordon]]] comics series at one point in my life. It was the third greatest nightmare in my professional life. Not the part about working with the talented and understanding Dan Jurgens; Dan’s a class act and a fine storyteller. No, working with King Features Syndicate was akin to…
After laying dormant for nearly a year, Rosario Dawson is ready to kick start The Occult Crimes Task Force back to comics and a film. She tells us why she believes morethan ever in comic based movies, plus: Jimmy Palmiotti takes on Vampire Hunter D Warehouse 13 set for The SciFi Channel Our rundown of…
Brendan Deenan, Senior v-p, Objective Entertainment, announced this morning that the delay behind Flash Gordon #1 had to do with a bad printer. In fact, the 13,000 print run has been pulped a new printer secured. As a result, the first issue, due out August 20, will now hit comic shops on September 24. The…
The controversy over just who should see The Dark Knight heats up in the UK, while over here we hide out at the comic shop among a stack of great new trades out this week, plus: Sony fast tracks Flash Gordon Ted McKeever gets collected Devils Due’s Josh Blaylock introduces us to Mercy Sparx And…
Born in 1924 in New York City, Frank Bolle grew up doodling. He went to the High School of Music and Art and then served in the Air Force from 1943 to 1946. After the war Bolle attended Pratt Institute and began looking for work—his first job in comics was in 1948 and he has…
Born in 1930, Frank Thorne got his comic book start penciling romance comics for Standard Comics in 1948. He then went on to draw the Perry Mason newspaper strip for King Features and to work on several comic books for Dell, including Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim, and The Green Hornet. In 1975 Thorne went to…
We continue our look at the ongoing world of Star Trek fiction with news of a massive crossover event that will have major effect on all aspects of Trek, from Archer to Janeway, plus: — Comics And The Movies – Flash Gordon & Buck Rogers? — Captain America returns to WWII — Yes you did…
Artist Paul Norris died yesterday at the age of 93. Along with writer/editor Mort Weisinger, Norris created Aquaman, one of comics’ most enduring superheroes and one of only five to be continuously published since earliest days of the medium. A versitile and gifted artist, Norris also drew such major characters as Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Sandman,…
Spoiler Alert: This week I’m discussing the three Jason Bourne movies and I may wind up revealing plot points, especially of the most recent film out, The Bourne Ultimatum. If you’re planning to see the movie, go see it first. More fun that way. Just recently I got around to seeing The Bourne Ultimatum, the…
Twenty-three years ago today, Hasbro brought the Autobots and Decepticons to store shelves all across America. Initially reusing previously-released toys from the Japanese Takara toylines Diaclone and Microman, Hasbro issued the toys under the name Transformers. The basic back-story of the toyline and subsequent comic books and cartoons was developed by the Marvel Comics writers…
Okay, I’ll get this over with real fast. Sci-Fi Channel’s new Flash Gordon show really sucks. I sat through the 90-minute pilot, and I sat through the next episode. No more. Life is too short. Here’s the first tip-off: Flash Gordon creator Alex Raymond is not in the opening credits. Hell, he got better (far…
