During the early 1950s, Kurtzman became one of the writers for Dan Barry's relaunched "Flash Gordon" daily comic strip. He scripted two sequences for the strip, with portions pencilled by Frank Frazetta. The strip soon became one of "Mad"s targets in "Flesh Garden!", drawn by Wood, who had earlier assisted Barry on the "Flash Gordon" strip. In 1954, Kurtzman dreamed up a full-color, 100-page adaptation of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" called "Marley's Ghost", and proposed the project to Simon & Schuster and other publishers. The proposal included seven finished pages, as well as a page redone by Jack Davis in case publishers' rejections were due to Kurtzman's drawing style. The ambitious project did not find a willing publisher, as comics were still seen as too low-brow for such lavish treatment.