These never-before-collected strips represent an essential transition
point that would forever change the direction of adventure comics. Lyman
Young's Tim Tyler's Luck was a successful series set in exotic locales
before Alex Raymond signed on as Young's assistant. It's 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.
LOAC Essentials reprints, in yearly volumes, the daily newspaper strips
that are essential to comics history, seminal strips that are unique
creations in their own right, while also significantly contributing to
the advancement of the medium. The strips are reproduced one per page,
giving readers an immersive experience, similar to the one newspapers
readers had many decades ago--reading the comics one day at a time.