biography
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Raymond, Alex(ander Gillespie)
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| lived:
| (1905–56)
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| biography:
| Strip cartoonist, born in New Rochelle, New York, USA. After a brief career in finance, he studied at the Grand Central School of Art, and became an assistant on a cartoon strip. From 1930 he was with the King Features Syndicate and created a number of outstandingly popular adventure strips, including Jungle Jim and the science-fiction adventurer Flash Gordon (both 1934). In 1946 he created Rip Kirby, the intellectual detective. |
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