Flash Gordon, introduced as a Sunday newspaper comic strip by King Features Syndicate in 1934, remains after more than 70 years, one of the best-known and most beloved epics of heroic fantasy produced in America. Initially envisioned and drawn by the brilliant Alex Raymond, the strips mlange of alien wonders, beautiful damsels, interplanetary evil and peerless derring-do remains potent today, as witness its many adaptations in print, motion pictures and television. It has even been cited by George Lucas as a primary influence on his Star Wars series. Al Williamson is arguably the foremost of Raymonds acolytes, the artist who best exemplifies the original spirit of Raymonds creation collects all the major works of the artist featuring the character Williamsons Flash drawings done for commercial illustration and prints a selection of unpublished images introduction by Sergio Aragones