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Title:	Paul Norris - Flash Gordon One Shot 173 page 33
Artist:	Paul Norris (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	2,129
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Added to Site:	10/26/2014
Comic Art Archive:	Four Color Issue: 173 Page: 33 View

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Paul Norris is another one of the under-appreciated artists of the “Golden Age”. He was born in 1914 and grew up in Ohio. He had always loved to draw and when the Great Depression began in 1934, he left college to try his hand at drawing a newspaper strip, called Hobo Cupboard, but the syndicate went out of business before that could get off the ground. Out of college and out of work, Norris returned home to work on his grandmother's farm before obtaining a job at an electric-motor assembly plant in Dayton, Ohio. There, he enrolled at the Dayton Art Institute School, and got work as an illustrator and cartoonist for the Dayton Daily News.

Norris and his wife Ann moved to New York City in 1940 and found work with Prize Publications. His comic-book debut was penciling and inking the cover of Prize Comics #6 (Aug. 1940), with his first confirmed credit the Power Nelson story "Introducing Gene West" two issues later. For Prize Norris created the Futureman, Power Nelson, and Yank and Doodle. It didn’t take long before Norris moved over to National/DC Comics where he drew DC's original Sandman, Wesley Dodds,. He, writer Mort Weisinger, revamped that character in superhero attire and introduced sidekick Sandy the Golden Boy in issue #69 (Dec. 1941). That same year, Norris and Weisinger introduced Aquaman in an eight-page story called "The Submarine Strikes" in More Fun Comics # 73 (Nov. 1941).

During the 1940’s, doing strips were a step above comic book work and Norris began drawing the adventure comic strip Vic Jordan for one of the New York's daily afternoon papers In 1942. Not realizing that he had inadvertently signed an exclusive contract with the syndicate, Norris had to give up Aquaman. feature. In 1943, Norris began writing and drawing Secret Agent X-9 that Alex Raymond had started for King Features Syndicate and worked on that for three months until he was drafted into the Army for WWII.

After the war ended, Norris returned to King Features Syndicate drawing the Sunday portion of Austin Briggs' comic strip Jungle Jim and these pages for Dell’s Flash Gordon among other jobs. He continued to freelance for DC Comics through 1953, drawing such features as the speedster "Johnny Quick" in Adventure Comics #171-186 (Dec. 1951 - March 1953). Norris also freelanced for Dell Comics during the 1950’s drawing Tom Corbett, Space Cadet and Jungle Jim and during the 1960’s drew Tarzan and Magnus, Robot Fighter for Gold Key Comics. He is also credited as co-creating Kono and Tono, The Jungle Twins, which ran 17 original issues (April 1972 - Nov. 1975).

With all of that work, Norris’ “day job” was his work on the science-fiction comic strip Brick Bradford. He took the strip over from creator Clarence Gray in 1952 and drew it continuously for 35 years until his and the strip's retirement on April 25, 1987. Norris’ last comics work was a drawing of Aquaman for DC’s "History of the DC Universe" poster in 1987. He passed away November 5 2007 at the age of 93.

This is a great page from Dell's Flash Gordon One Shot (Four Color 173)... although there were several of them so not really a One-Shot... from 1947. The story was called Adventure on Opto. In that story, Flash and Dale's spaceship was shot down on Opto, a planet where the populace is blind and "see" guided by radar in the headgear they wear. Flash, Dale, and a girl named Chee escape from the Regent Optik and death from the High Tribunal, and make their way to the winter region of Opto where the rebel Vango is plotting a revolt against the dictator.

Here, Flash meets with Vango and battles his guard Katonk. Now friends, they begin to plot Optik's over throw. Look at the shot of Flash in panel 5 and tell me that is not Aquaman!

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