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Al McWilliams - Flash Gordon 38 pg 1

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Title:	Al McWilliams - Flash Gordon 38 pg 1
Artist:	Al McWilliams (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Splash Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,197
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	10/26/2014
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This is part of a rare thing... an unpublished book. I own the entire 32 pages - two complete stories - of this book that was never published. And it is a shame as Al McWilliams really did a great job on it showing Flash, Dale and Zarkov in an underwater kingdom of Mongo.

About Al McWilliams... he began his career in comics around 1935 when he got work as an assistant to Lyman Young on Tim Tyler's Luck. He then did work for pulps, like Flying Aces where he wrote and drew biographies of famous aviators in a single-page comic strip, They Had What It Takes.

He started working for comic books in 1938, right at the beginning of the medium, drawing "Capt. Frank Hawks — Air Ace" in Dell Comics' Crackajack Funnies #7 (cover-dated Dec. 1938). He worked steadily until he enlisted in the Army in 1942. McWilliams fought during D-Day, and was awarded the Bronze Star and France's Croix de Guerre. All the while, McWilliam's Quality Comics war-stories continued to appear during his service.

He returned from service in 1945 and jumped right back into comics continuing to work for Quality (he drew the detective feature "Steve Wood" in Quality's National Comics) and freelances for the remainder of the decade, working for D.S. Publishing, Novelty Press, Hillman Periodicals, and Star Publications, with at least one romance comics story for Archie Comics,[4] and did interior art and covers, variously, for such pulps as the Westerns All Western Magazine, Exciting Western, Rodeo Romances, Texas Rangers and Zane Grey's Western Magazine, the science-fiction.

During the early 1950's. McWilliams primarily drew romance comics and crime comics for Lev Gleason Publications but was hired, in 1952 to create and illustrate the science-fiction comic strip "Twin Earths" with writer Oskar Lebeck. This ran continuously from 1952 until 1963. He then drew the nautical adventure strip Davy Jones, a spinoff of Sam Leff's Curley Kayoe, from 1966 to 1968, and Dateline" Danger!, which ran from 1968 to 1974, and introduced the first African-American lead character of a comic strip.

Other credits include working as an assistant on John Prentice on Rip Kirby in 1964 and 1965; on Don Sherwood's U.S. Marine strip Dan Flagg from 1965-7; and on Leonard Starr's On Stage in 1969 and 1970. He also illustrated two stories for Warren's Creepy and went on to draw stories in supernatural/mystery anthology comics Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery and Twilight Zone.

Concentrating on Dateline: Danger!, he drew no comic books from 1968 to 1974, but as that strip ended he returned to comics working for Archie Comics' Red Circle Comics imprint, a handful of stories for Atlas/Seaboard Comics and inked a small number of stories for Marvel in 1975 before returning to Gold Key, where he drew and lettered stories through 1982 including issues of Flash Gordon and the TV-spinoff comic Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

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	Wallace Harrington ( 27 ) Premium Gallery Owner
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Chris K.
Member Since 2008

Posted on 10/26/2014

Boy, Wally...this was about the last thing I expected to see checking out CAF this morning. Beautiful art and a great history lesson from you...what a treat. Thanks for sharing it!

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