In Alex Raymond's comic strip Flash Gordon, there is a land called Frigia, where it is always winter.

Leone was a fan of the original Alex Raymond comic strip, but turned down the film because the script didn't resemble Raymond's work.

The big budget adaptations of Frank Herbert's Dune, Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon and Arthur C. Clarke's sequel to 2001, 2010, were box office duds that dissuaded producers from investing in science fiction literary properties.

While some, like Norman Marsh's Dan Dunn were unabashedly slavish imitations of Tracy, others, like Dashiell Hammett's and Alex Raymond's Secret Agent X-9, took a more original approach.

* When Worlds Collide ( 1933 ), co-written with Edwin Balmer, inspired Alex Raymond's comic strip Flash Gordon, as well as being adapted as a 1951 film by producer George Pal.

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's Rip Kirby ( July 28, 1956 ), his final strip with Judith Lynne " Honey " Dorian.

George Lucas, who has cited Raymond as an influence on Star Wars. Alex Raymond's " influence on other cartoonists was considerable during his lifetime and did not diminish after his death ".

Cerebus creator Dave Sim has published a comic book since 2008 called glamourpuss which is an examination of Alex Raymond's career ( and the techniques of other photorealists like Stan Drake and Al Williamson ) structured around a hypothetical storyline set during the last day of Raymond's life.

In his youth, Williamson developed an interest in comic strips, particularly Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon.

Later, Williamson was attracted to Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon strip after his mother took him to see the Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe movie serial.

Alex Raymond's Rip Kirby

Alex Raymond's Secret Agent X-9 ( 1934 )

At the turn of the 21st century, well-established artists such as Sir Anthony Caro, Lucian Freud, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Agnes Martin, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, and younger artists including Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Sam Gilliam, Isaac Witkin, Sean Scully, Mahirwan Mamtani, Joseph Nechvatal, Elizabeth Murray, Larry Poons, Richard Serra, Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Ronald Davis, Dan Christensen, Joel Shapiro, Tom Otterness, Joan Snyder, Ross Bleckner, Archie Rand, Susan Crile, and dozens of others continued to produce vital and influential paintings and sculpture.

Aniston has two half-brothers, John Melick, her maternal older half-brother, and Alex Aniston, her younger paternal half-brother.

Born to Alexander Beaton Ferguson, a plater's helper in the shipbuilding industry, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Hardie, Alex Ferguson was born at his grandmother's home on Shieldhall Road, Govan, on 31 December 1941, but grew up in a tenement at 667 Govan Road ( which has since been demolished ) where he lived with his parents as well as his younger brother Martin.

Mauvais Sang is an avant-garde thriller in which she plays Anna the vastly younger lover of Marc ( Piccoli ) who falls in love with Alex ( Denis Lavant ), a young thief.

Its notable former pupils include: ex-England Rugby players Rob Andrew, now Director of Elite Rugby for the Rugby Football Union ( RFU ), the Underwood brothers, Tony and Rory along with present England player Mathew Tait and his younger brother Alex, member of the Newcastle Falcons and England U20s team.

* Alex Sanderson ( born 1979 ), international rugby union player and younger brother of Pat.

In the mid-1960s two of Burke's younger brothers, Alex ( born 1948 in Philadelphia ) and Laddie ( born 1949 in Philadelphia ), joined with fellow Germantown High School students, brothers Earl and Timmy Smith to form The Showstoppers, who had a couple of local hit singles in Philadelphia on Showtime Records in 1968, including a # 11 hit on the UK Singles Chart with " Ain't Nothin ' But a Houseparty " b / w " How Easy Your Heart Forgets Me " ( Heritage HE-800 ), which peaked at # 87 on the Billboard chart in 1968, which was later a discothèque hit (# 33 ) in 1971, just before the group disbanded after a series of flops.

Adams ( Tom Carroll ) and Neil Atwater ( Eddie Robinson ), best friends and scientific geniuses ; Bobby " Saja " De Castro ( Alex Tanaka ); Saja's sister Sophia Eva McCormick Decastro ( Mira Sorvino ), Sandy Swan ( Kristen Mahon ) and Owen Fowler ( Evan Ferrante ), the talented musicians ; Jimmy Clayton ( Devin Doherty ) and Callie Walker ( Stacey Moseley ), the auto mechanics ; Glory Booth ( Carisa Dahlbo ), Garrett's younger sister and J. T.

One of the first local legends, The Corsayers ( later The Fabulous Corsairs )-featuring Alex Taylor and younger brother James-could be heard around town.

He missed their League Cup final victory over Nottingham Forest through injury and his first-team chances were starting to look increasingly numbered as he faced competition from other players within the United squad and the press reported that Alex Ferguson was hoping to sign a new, younger midfielder, although no such addition took place in 1992.

However, there are several key differences: first, Alex is sometimes called the older brother and other times called the younger brother ; second, in this world, Alex and Scott are frequently at odds with each other, both ideologically and physically ; and third, neither seems interested in mending this rift.

Alex, Cody's younger brother tries to eat a few of his explosive Mentos, but Cody tosses them into the pond where they explode harmlessly.

Villas-Boas opted for a younger, more inexperienced squad favouring the likes of Juan Mata, Ramires, Daniel Sturridge, David Luiz and Gary Cahill as starters and Ryan Bertrand as a substitute instead of Ferreira, Nicolas Anelka, Alex, Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard.

Queiroz was often seen conducting interviews with BBC programmes, such as Match of the Day, as at the time Alex Ferguson refused to speak with the BBC after allegations by the BBC's Panorama programme that Ferguson's younger son Jason, and then Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp, had been involved in corruption regarding cuts in transfer fees.

The third of four children, he has an older sister Wilma, older brother Alex and younger brother Andrew.

Alex Ferguson was looking for a younger striker to sign as a possible long term successor to the 31-year-old Mark Hughes, and had identified Stan Collymore and Andy Cole as the two players who best fitted the bill.

In 1916, during a World War I air raid, Max and his elder brother Alex were saved from death by a cast iron bed frame, but his younger brother Bunty and their Aunt Betty, who was looking after them, were killed by a bomb dropped from a German Zeppelin which also destroyed their house.

In 1979 Maxwell, together with Margo Macdonald, Owen Dudley Edwards and a number of younger nationalist activists ( including Alex Salmond and Kenny McAskill ) established the 79 Group, a left-wing faction within the SNP.

In 2000, former Romanian legend Gheorghe Hagi rated him as one of the finest ball-playing midfielders in Europe, and in 2006, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had suggested that if he were ten years younger, Tugay's ability would make him an ideal player for the Old Trafford team.

Alex lost the record to Erik Kloeker of the Pickled Brothers Sideshow, who is year younger than Alex.

Adam, the younger Alex and their dog Sally enjoy their isolation, far from an overcrowded and troubled Earth.

It had been 26 years since their last top division title, and manager Alex Ferguson signed Kanchelskis in a bid to find an attacking right sided midfielder to give him a younger and quicker option to the older right sided midfielders like Mike Phelan, Neil Webb and the skilful but lightweight Russell Beardsmore.

Sales steadily declined from the mid-1990s to around 200, 000 in 2001, by which time Chris Donald had resigned as editor and passed control to an " editorial cabinet " comprising his brother, Simon, Dury, Thorp and new recruits Davey Jones and Alex Collier.

Guitarist / vocalist George and bassist / vocalist Louis formed the band Johnson Three Plus One with older brother Tommy, and their cousin Alex Weir, while attending school in Los Angeles, California.

After drawing Dee Dee's tall, thin shape, he decided to pair her with a short and blocky opposite, Dexter ( inspired by Tartakovsky's older brother Alex ).

Grimley's fellow cartoon characters included Grimley's landlord Leo Freebus ( voiced by Jonathan Winters ), Leo's wife Deidre ( Andrea Martin ), his ditzy, amateur actress neighbor Ms. Malone ( voiced by Catherine O ' Hara ; a female character by the name of Ms. Malone did appear on an SNL version of an Ed Grimley sketch on the season ten episode hosted by Alex Karras, but Ms. Malone was played by that episode's musical guest Tina Turner ), and her little brother, Wendell.

Originally, his brother Eddie had taken lessons for drums, while Alex practiced guitar.

Although Alex is known as a professional drummer, he began his musical aspirations as a guitarist, with his brother Eddie taking up drums.

Alex has become an ordained minister and presided at the weddings of his brother Eddie Van Halen in 2009 and his former sister-in-law Valerie Bertinelli in 2011.

In the fall of 1975, Garrett, at fourteen, appeared in the role of Endy Karras in a 12-week CBS drama series Three for the Road, with Alex Rocco as his father, Peter Karras, and Vincent Van Patten as his older brother, John Karras.

Samuel's terms were accepted, he returned to Jerusalem, leaving Captain Alex Kirkbride as the British representative east of the Jordan until the arrival on 21 November 1920 of Abdullah, the brother of recently deposed King Faisal, who marched into Ma ' an at the head of an army of 300 men.

Cody gets his brother Alex ( Connor Widdows ) to make sure his parents do not find out that he is gone by giving him the $ 5, 000 the CIA gave him.

Alex Taylor and his older brother Jack live in L. A. where Jack is a personal fitness trainer.

The Six is a twisted reimagining of the original X-Factor team, in a reality where Alex Summers was the first X-Man instead of his older brother Scott.

After Cyclops discovers that his brother, Alex, actually survived the plane crash that killed their parents, they are both taken by Magneto into his " sanctuary " on Asteroid M. Magneto captures several X-Men and Brotherhood members in an attempt to amplify their mutant abilities and remove their emotions.

Alex Rogan ( Lance Guest ) is a teenager living in a trailer park with his mother ( Barbara Bosson ) and little brother ( Chris Hebert ).

In the alternate reality known as the Mutant X universe, young Scott Summers was abducted into space along with his father Christopher and mother Kate, leaving his brother Alex to become one of the founders of the X-Men as Havok.

In the Age of Apocalypse continuity, Alex and his brother Scott are not separated after the plane crash, but adopted together by Sinister.

Alex, being the more emotional, and thus unstable, of the two, loses ground in Sinister's eyes and watches with envy as his brother gains favor.

Alex refuses to believe that there were no other options and blames his brother for their father's death.

At almost that moment, Alex has just recaptured Jean Grey to use against his brother, Scott.

Alex exposes his brother as a traitor by asking Scott to execute Jean Grey, which Scott refuses to do.

Alex tracks them down and knocks his brother and seemingly kills Jean, but this action proves fatal for Alex when Weapon X takes vengeance on Jean's behalf.