Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Flash Gordon</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-05-01
name: label: graphic artist
content: Raboy, Mac
label: issuing authority
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Flash Gordon</i> Sunday edition comic strip, shows Flash earning his freedom by fighting to the death with the evil character Hafn. However, when Flash realizes he's won the battle, he refuses to actually kill the villain.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mac Raboy (1914-1967) was a comic artist who began his career as an artist for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. He started drawing for comic books in the 1940s and earned acclaim for his illustrations for <i>Captain Marvel, Jr.</i> and the <i>Green Lama.</i> In 1948 Raboy was hired by King Features to continue illustrating the Sunday strip for <i>Flash Gordon,</i> which he did until his death.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Flash Gordon</i> (1940-1993, dailies, 1934-2003, Sundays) told the tale of a well-educated young man turned space adventurer. Created by Alex Raymond, the strip competed with the popular <i>Buck Rogers.</i> Flash and his friends, including the slightly unhinged Dr. Zarkov, shared in adventures and came to grips with chaos on the planet Mongo. Over the course of their journeys Flash and his friends traveled to an assortment of other worlds. The comic strip inspired spin-offs in film, television, and radio.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Space Travel
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22465
label: catalog number
content: 22465
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38.3 cm x 56.1 cm; 15 1/16 in x 22 1/16 in