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Alex Raymond

1909 - 1956

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Alexander Gillespie Raymond Jr. (October 2, 1909 – September 6, 1956) was an American cartoonist and illustrator who was best known for creating the Flash Gordon comic strip for King Features Syndicate in 1934. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alex Raymond has received more than 347,974 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Alex Raymond is the 117th most popular comic artist (down from 98th in 2019), the 7,062nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,768th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Comic Artist.

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  • 350k

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  • 45.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Alex Raymond ranks 117 out of 174Before him are Floyd Gottfredson, Masakazu Katsura, Tite Kubo, Gotlib, Richard Corben, and Dave Gibbons. After him are Todd McFarlane, Larry Lieber, Yukito Kishiro, Ken Akamatsu, Yōichi Takahashi, and Jamie Hewlett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Alex Raymond ranks 268Before him are Ștefan Dobay, Jaime Lazcano, Guillermo Eizaguirre, Frank Wykoff, Vasco Bergamaschi, and André Vandewyer. After him are Leo Sexton, Patricia Hayes, Jaú, Frank Shields, Adam Rapacki, and Sergey Gritsevets. Among people deceased in 1956, Alex Raymond ranks 153Before him are Flora Sandes, Violet Gibson, Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, Robert Julius Trumpler, Marie Juchacz, and E. T. Whittaker. After him are Gerald Finzi, Pelageya Shajn, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Theodor Pallady, Werner Haas, and Augustin Chantrel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alex Raymond ranks 7,062 out of 18,182Before him are Jenny Slate (1982), Warren E. Burger (1907), Lillian Disney (1899), May McAvoy (1899), Ernie Pyle (1900), and Hal Connolly (1931). After him are Joseph Mazzello (1983), Candace Bushnell (1958), Megan Boone (1983), William S. Hart (1864), Little Crow (1810), and Néstor Carbonell (1967).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Alex Raymond ranks 27Before him are Joe Simon (1913), Jim Davis (1945), Roy Thomas (1940), John Romita Sr. (1930), Floyd Gottfredson (1905), and Richard Corben (1940). After him are Larry Lieber (1931), John Buscema (1927), George Herriman (1880), Harvey Kurtzman (1924), Mort Walker (1923), and Les Clark (1907).