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June 13th, 2013, Mt. Laurel, NJ – Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician team-up in the upcoming Dynamite series, Kings Watch! Written by superstar writer, Jeff Parker, and drawn by artist Marc Laming, and a cover by Laming as well as a Subscription-Only cover by Eisner award winning artist, Ramón Pérez (A tale of Sand). Kings enjoy is available in comic book stores and digitally this coming September!
In KINGS WATCH #1, panic spreads across the world. odd phenomena fills the skies. Millions have nightmares of wild lands filled with horrible creatures… then wake to find the monsters are real. What are three men ready to sacrifice to save us all? Superstar writer Jeff Parker (Dark Avengers, Red She-Hulk) and artist Marc Laming (Planet of the Apes) deliver the earth-crushing event of 2013, featuring Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician like you’ve never seen them!
Kings enjoy #1 cover by Ramón Pérez
“As a kid I saved a healthy stack of comics pages from the newspaper to follow The Phantom’s jungle adventures, and copied drawings of the terrific Sy Barry from those,” states Kings enjoy writer Jeff Parker. “The other famous creation of Lee Falk, Mandrake was appealing too, but I mostly had an idea of him from some brief radio theatre episodes on an album. later I was lucky to find some of the Nostalgia press reprints of his stories. I was also (and still am) really into Flash Gordon. I loved the Filmation cartoon so don’t be shocked if you see elements of that here. It was also one of the first motion picture serials I saw thanks to our PBS station showing them- how best was Buster Crabbe as Flash? I of course went to the De Laurentiis motion picture multiple times, and got any comic book with him. then when kitchen Sink press put out Alex Raymond’s original newspaper strips, I finally got the whole lush epic. Mandrake, Phantom and Flash are really where it all begins for incredibly action heroes, they influenced so much of what we read and enjoy today. Marc and I are having the best time reintroducing the pulp adventure trinity for today’s readers, and bringing them together in one thriller which hasn’t happened in years. I can’t wait for new readers and longtime fans to read this.”
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“I remember the summer of 1976 for three reasons; the long summer that year when it was so hot that the pavement melted, the USA’s Bicentennial celebrations that even reached our shores in the UK and the first time I saw the Flash Gordon motion picture serials on morning TV during the school vacation,” adds artist Marc Laming. “We were pretty adventure & Sci-Fi starved in the UK in the mid-70’s and those serials were like being hit by lightning and my 8 year old mind was blown. around a year later a cartoon on TV (I have no idea of the title) that featured the King features characters introduced me to The Phantom who was incredibly amazing like Batman and Mandrake who was a better dressed Dr. odd and not nearly as scary! When the show finished I ran straight out to the newsagents to find out more.”
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“I’ve wanted to work with Jeff (Parker) for years, and Kings enjoy is a wonderful first project together. We’ve wanted to place together a cross-over with King features a lot of famous characters for years, but needed to make sure we brought the fans the ideal writer. Jeff is that writer. and Marc Laming compliments Jeff’s script incredibly, as you will be able to see in the pages attached. This is a series that waited for the ideal team to bring this story together, and absolutely worth the wait,” states Dynamite publisher Nick Barrucci.
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