Mac Raboy — Conquers The Universe

Original Art and The Artists

Flash Gordon, Sunday Strip, July 30, 1961

Alex Raymond created Flash Gordon and set the standard for comic strip illustration.

Mac Raboy worshipped Raymond, and created his own impeccable standards for illustration during the Golden Age of comics with his astonishing craftsmanship on Captain Marvel Jr.

And then… serendipity takes a hand, and Raboy becomes the Sunday artist for Flash Gordon.

That Sunday run, started in 1946, and only ending with Raboy’s death in 1967, deserves consideration among the best looking SF strips of all time.

As for Captain Marvel Jr.?  Raboy’s covers are still among the greatest ever to appear in the medium.

Dark Horse has collected the complete Raboy Flash Gordon run into four attractive volumes.
Nearly 50 years later, Jim Steranko’s History of the Comics (Vol.2) features the best overview of Mac Raboy’s amazing Golden Age comics work on Captain Marvel Jr. These two pages © Jim Steranko, 1972, 2021.