Alex Raymond

Alex Raymond (1909-1956) is regarded, with Milton Caniff and Hal Foster, as one of the three giants of newspaper adventure strip artists. Raymond apprenticed with Chic Young on Blondie and Lyman Young on Tim Tyler's Luck . The year 1934 was a major turning point in his career: he illustrated Secret Agent X-9 , a new detective comic strip written by Dashiell Hammett, and then created Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim . He left X-9 after a couple of years and continued drawing Flash and Jim , with a...See more

Alex Raymond (1909-1956) is regarded, with Milton Caniff and Hal Foster, as one of the three giants of newspaper adventure strip artists. Raymond apprenticed with Chic Young on Blondie and Lyman Young on Tim Tyler's Luck . The year 1934 was a major turning point in his career: he illustrated Secret Agent X-9 , a new detective comic strip written by Dashiell Hammett, and then created Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim . He left X-9 after a couple of years and continued drawing Flash and Jim , with a writing assist from Don Moore, until 1944, when he enlisted in the Marines. In 1946 Raymond created the ultimate post-War cool detective series, Rip Kirby , which is also available from the Library of American Comics. See less