About the Loac Essentials King Features Hardcover Volume 2 Tylers Luck 1933

(W) Lyman Young (A/CA) Alex Raymond. These never-before-collected strips represent an essential transition point that would forever change the direction of adventure comics. Lyman Youngs Tim Tylers Luck was a successful series set in exotic locales before Alex Raymond signed on as Youngs assistant. Its in these 1932-1933 strips, as Raymond assumed greater and greater responsibility for the drawing, that he developed the prototypes for Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, and Jungle Jim, and the style for which he became famous a year later.