Book cover for Alex Raymond: The Power of the Image by Ron Goulart and Daniel Herman

Alex Raymond: The Power of the Image

2026 Released
304 Pages
5-7 Hours
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Hardback Available November 25, 2026
Hermes PressISBN 9781613453117

This hardcover magnum opus which chronicles the career of Raymond, the definitive action artist, provides over 400 examples of original art from Secret Agent X-9, Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim, and Rip Kirby not to mention an in-depth look at his illustration work. This book contains mountains of photographs and documentary materials including advertising art. The new monograph differs from the 2015 book offered by Hermes Press, now out of print, as it offers hundreds of new images scanned from the originals. Don't miss it!

Ron Goulart

Ronald Joseph Goulart was an American popular culture historian and mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. He worked on novels and novelizations (and other works) being published under various pseudonyms such as Kenneth Robeson. In the 1970s, he wrote several novels based on Lee Falk's The Phantom for Avon Books, Later in the decade, he collaborated with artist Gil Kane on the Star Hawks newspaper strip.

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Daniel Herman

Daniel Herman is an American attorney and the founder and president of Hermes Press, a publishing company founded in 2001 based in New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States. He also is the person primarily in charge of finding the source material used in Hermes Press reprints as well as a comics historian, having written several books on the topic of the Silver Age of comics, and a book on Gil Kane.

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