Customer Reviews

Mac Raboy's Flash Gordon, vol. 1

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Good news: The Dark Horse web page lists this as the first of four volumes, each covering five years of Raboy's time on the strip (Spring 1948 to his death in Dec 1967).

Bad news: Customers should be aware that these are black and white strips, not coloured. Given the often bizzare colours chosen for non-US strips, that may be a good decision, but imo there would still be a demand for a collection of Raboy's Flash as it appeared in US Sunday pages.

Excellent for readers who were fans of the Mac Raboy era of the comic strip. I prefer Raboy's work to Alex Raymond's. Both were fine artists, but Raboy's drawing style is a bit more sophisticated, and his story-telling was less corny. (Raymond worked in an era when it was apparently considered necessary to constantly heap praise upon the hero.) Of course these stories have the episodic structure that all collections of this type have, a result of originally being published in short installments in a newspaper. My only real complaint though, is I wish they had chosen to reprint them in color (as the orignals were), rather in than black and white.