Which fictional hero was created by Alex Raymond and widely syndicated in 1934?
Alex Raymond was concurrently illustrating "Secret Agent X-9", which premiered January 22, 1934, two weeks after the two other strips. It was "Flash Gordon" that would outlast the others, quickly "develop[ing] an audience far surpassing" that of "Buck Rogers". "Flash Gordon", wrote Stephen Becker, "was wittier and moved faster," so "Buck's position as America's favorite sci-fi hero", wrote historian Bill Crouch, Jr., "went down in flames to the artistic lash and spectacle of Alex Raymond's virtuoso artwork." Alex Raymond has stated, "I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and
White hunter study desk or board-room table, contributed to the Imperial effect." Perhaps the first fictional Victorian adventure hero was Allan Quatermain, a white hunter who appeared in books by H. Rider Haggard, starting with "King Solomon's Mines" (1885). In 1924, Richard Connell published his short story "The Most Dangerous Game", in which an American big-game hunter finds himself being hunted by a Russian aristocrat who has tired of hunting in Africa; the story is still widely read. Alex Raymond created the "Jungle Jim" comic strip in 1934 that later lead to a comic book, film serial, film series, and television show.