Dynamite Entertainment has put together their own trinity — with Flash Gordon and Mandrake the Magician having joined their Phantom license to take on the complete King Features lineup!
“Flash Gordon and Mandrake the Magician are two great additions to the iconic characters we currently publish: Green Hornet, The Phantom, Buck Rogers, Zorro, Project Superpowers, The Black Terror, Death Defying ‘Devil, Masquarade, The Lone Ranger and all of the titles we are proud to publish,” Nick Barrucci, Dynamite President and Publisher, said in a press release. ”We promise to devote the same passion to these King Features properties as we have done so consistently throughout our publishing history, beginning with The Last Phantom.”
Flash Gordon is one of the seminal sci-fi swashbucklers, having been created in 1934 to compete with Buck Rogers. Mandrake the Magician, meanwhile, used his powers of hypnosis to battle foes ranging from gangsters to extradimensional creatures. The last time these two heroes were under the same banner as the Phantom was in 1967, under King Comics.
There’s no word as to any creative teams that might take on the book, or any dates as to when they might be released.
May 26th, 2010 at 11:26 am
That is good news, as I can’t remember when Ardden Entertainment last put out a Flash Gordon comic book, but I have to wonder, if the Buck Rogers series from Dynamite didn’t last very long, can we expect the same from Flash Gordon?
Of course, Flash Gordon has a more iconic villian in Ming than any of BR’s baddies, which might help. Buck Rogers was a gorgeous book (I would have no complaints if the art team worked on FG), but it didn’t seem to move very fast or have a lot of character development, so hopefully Dynamite will adopt a more exciting pace with FG.
May 26th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Wouldn’t the “Defenders of the Earth” book from Marvel count as “The last time these two heroes were under the same banner as the Phantom”?
May 27th, 2010 at 8:22 am
ARDDEN ENTERTAINMENT’S
FLASH GORDON RETURNS THIS FALL!
Ardden Entertainment LLC is excited to announce the launch of FLASH GORDON: INVASION OF THE RED SWORD for an Autumn 2011 release.
Coming off the heels of Ardden’s critically-acclaimed FLASH GORDON: THE MERCY WARS mini-series (called “good, old-fashioned fun, freshly polished” by Publishers Weekly), Ardden plans on continuing an expansion of the characters and situations created in the first story arc, which was directly inspired by Alex Raymond’s groundbreaking comic strips.
FLASH GORDON: INVASION OF THE RED SWORD chronicles the invasion of Mongo by a splinter group of the CIA, as first introduced in FLASH GORDON: THE MERCY WARS #1. The group’s name, “The Red Sword,” was first created by Alex Raymond.
“When preparing to write the first four six-issue arcs we have planned for FLASH GORDON,” says FLASH GORDON writer and Ardden Co-Publisher Brendan Deneen, “I re-read every single one of Alex Raymond’s original comic strips. There was a treasure trove of material in there, including an arc where Flash, Dale and Zarkov end up back on Earth. While there, they battle a mysterious group called ‘the Red Sword.’ I thought that was the perfect name for the invading force in our second arc.”
“Like everyone else,” Deneen added, “I’ve heard about Dynamite’s plans to launch their own FLASH GORDON series. I look forward to some healthy competition. I hope they’re ready, too.”
In addition to their ongoing FLASH GORDON comic book series, Ardden Entertainment LLC is the publisher of CASPER AND THE SPECTRALS, a re-imagining of “Casper the Friendly Ghost,” which Aint It Cool News recently described as their favorite comic of the week (“Buy CASPER AND THE SPECTRALS and I guarantee you will enjoy it,” they also wrote).
CASPER AND THE SPECTRALS #2 hits comic stores in June after an unfortunate delay, with issue #3 coming out in July. Ardden will also be launching a new license at this October’s New York Comic-Con, based on a storied comic franchise with over three decades of history to its name.
Ardden Entertainment was formed in mid-2007 by ex-Miramax Films executive, Brendan Deneen, and ex-Markosia Editor-in-Chief, Richard Emms, and their business model is to produce contemporized versions of classic licenses and exciting new creator-owned titles. Joining Deneen and Emms is veteran comic book creator and writer, JM DeMatteis, who works as Ardden’s Editor-in-Chief.
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