The comic strip featuring the very first appearance of Flash Gordon, the 1930s sci-fi hero that launched movie and radio serials and even influenced the creation of Star Wars, sold for almost half a million dollars at an auction Tuesday. The pencil-and-ink art by Alex Raymond, the creator of the strip, sold for a muscular $480,000, a record for comic strip art. Certainly adding to … Continue reading ‘Flash Gordon’: First-Ever Comic Strip Sells for Almost Half a Million Dollars!!