This morning I saw this beauty on hoopla
Flash Gordon Dailies: Austin Briggs Volume 1 - Radium Mines of Electra 1940 - 1942 by Austin Briggs and Don Moore.
I knew nothing about Austin Briggs or Don Moore. So I had a bit of an internet walkabout and found this:
Don Moore was the writer of the Flash Gordon comic strip, 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 took over the art from Raymond in 1944 when Raymond joined the Marines, and Moore continued as scripter.
https://flashgordon.fandom.com/wiki/Don_Moore
So there's some street cred for you.
There's a four page introduction to this volume by Allen Lane. I didn't know who he was, either, and there was no biographical information included here, but if Google serves me well he was one of the founders of Penguin Books, and a knighted fellow. And apparently the inventor of the book vending machine.
In other news....
Detective Comics #1053 This title continues to delight me. The only complaint I have is that this is Part 7, which means that we're more than halfway through the story. I am also really going to miss having a weekly dose of Detective Comics. If only we could have a weekly anthology along the lines of Action Comics Weekly. Man, I loved that book. And the Batman universe has more than enough elements that it could be made into a weekly with 8 page installments of 3 or 4 different titles. But from what I've heard, anthology titles don't sell, so so much for that. Meanwhile, though, Mariko Tamaki continues to kick ass on this title. I will definitely be hanging around at the end of the story arc to see what she does with Batman, since he is mostly absent from "The Tower." (In fact, thus far he's only been seeing in a couple of panels in flashback, as he is out of town mushroom hunting or something.)
Usagi Yojimbo #26 Well...yep. I'm very sorry to say that I'm getting tired of Usagi Yojimbo again. I've enjoyed the color, but the stories just seem to tread the same ground over and over again. This might be it for me and the bunny. Again.
Fantastic Four #40 And...this might be it for me and the Fantastic Four as well. This issue was part of The Reckoning War story arc...and since there was no reference to that at the beginning of the issue, I spent several pages wondering, "What the fuck happened here? When was the moon destroyed?" Not to mention, "The moon was destroyed? That's one of the stupidest story premises I've ever heard of." Well... at least it wasn't a movie, right? Anyway...I don't mind a comic book being part of a larger story, but I do expect the writer or editor to give me enough information at the start of the issue to fill me in on what's going on. Not doing so is just to guarantee confusion. And if they think that that is going to get me to buy the issue that I "missed"--in this case, Fantastic Four: Reckoning War Alpha (2022) #1--well...that is definitely not going to happen. For me, this crossover issue just completely disrupted the story that I was interested in reading, and with that I think it's time to stick a fork in it. I might have a quick look at issue #41 just to be sure...but I'm feeling pretty solid about this. Bitten / shy, ya know?
Next Week:
Action Comics #1040
Detective Comics #1054
Hardware: Season One #4
Saga #56
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