Raymond, Alex

Raymond, Alex. Alex Raymond s Flash Gordon. 7 vols. West Carrollton, OH Checker Book Publishing, 2007. 

As noted earlier, NMR lines from solids are very broad, but as early as 1958 Raymond Andrew and Irving Lowe independently showed that rapid spinning of the sample under certain conditions can reduce the line width. During the period 1965—1975 a number of clever new methods were developed (primarily in the laboratories of John Waugh, Alex Pines, Peter Mansfield, and Robert Vaughn) to employ both pulsed and continuous wave NMR methods to obtain narrow lines in solids. We shall describe the basic ideas behind these techniques and give some illustrations of their application. 

The instant success of Buck Rogers quickly spawned imitators, the most famous of which was Flash Gordon. Flash Gordon made his newspaper debut on Sunday, January 7, 1934, with a daily following shortly thereafter, all under the talented pen of Alex Raymond. The borrowing from Buck Rogers was obvious. The hero had a girlfriend. Dale Arden, as well... 

Analysts of the comic-strip medium have frequently compared these two "scientific" newspaper strips, almost always to Buck Rogers s detriment. Life in Buck s twenty-fifth century seems flat and melodramatic when compared to Alex Raymond s imaginative scenery and... 

Press, 1992), il.Alex Raymond s Flash Gordon (West Carrollton, OH Checker Book, 2002), foreword. To compare the two strips, see The Comic Strip Century, 1 226-28 and 2 362-66. 

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