Flash Gordon: Classic Collection Vol. 5

by Harvey Kurtzman, Dan Barry (Illustrator)

Overview

The fifth volume of classic Flash Gordon reprint material!

Science fiction’s most enduring icon Flash Gordon returns in newly restored editions, collecting his ongoing adventures on the mysterious planet Mongo. In this volume, a whole new era begins for the spacefaring adventurer as comics legends Harvey Kurtzman and Dan Barry relaunch the strip! Space prisons, butterfly men, and forest demons—Flash Gordon will take on them all!

Flash Gordon: Classic Collection Volume 5 reprints Dan Barry and Harvey Kurtzman's Sunday strips from November 19, 1951 to October 24, 1953, and includes an introduction by renowned editor Dave Schreiner contextualizing this unique era of Flash Gordon Dailies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781545820643
Publisher:	Mad Cave Studios
Publication date:	10/28/2025
Series:	Flash Gordon Classic Collection , #5
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	11.25(w) x 10.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

DAN BARRY was born in 1923. His life-long career as a comic strip artist began in 1941 following an encounter with fellow cartoonist George Mandel who gave him his first break working on Funnies Inc. comic. Barry would go on to work for several of the major comic book publishers of the time, including Timely, Feature Comics and Fawcett on titles such as Scottie, Black Owle, Airboy, Boy King, Spy Smasher and Doc Savage. Following his national service, where he served in the Air Force, Barry returned to comics, assisting Burne Hogarth on the Tarzan daily newspaper strip before taking over the strip from 1947 to 1948. In 1951, Barry was hired to revive the Flash Gordon daily strip and eventually took over the Sunday edition too, following the death of its artist, Mac Raboy in 1967. In 1980, Dan Barry created the official poster for the Mike Hodges Flash Gordon movie. Barry would go on to draw Flash Gordon for nearly 50 years, before leaving in 1990, following a disagreement with King Features Syndicate. He went on to work as the writer and artist on the Indiana Jones comic books published by Dark Horse and died in January 1997 at the age of 74.