Flash Gordon by Angelo Torres

• Oh. My. Heck.  How I missed this literally my whole life, I'll never know.  Torres submitted this to some kid named Stan Lee, and it got him hired at Atlas, this just a year or two before I was born (the best Chevy and myself both appeared in 1956).  Of course, before that, Torres had been Fleagally producing great stuff at E.C.  I like to think he and Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta and Roy Krenkel were rock'n "the Studio" concept way before Smith and Jones and Wrightson and Kaluta.  The E.C. story An Eye For An Eye looks like Torres coulda done Thun'da if Fritz hadn't gotten around to it, and then a decade later, Warren magazines got some amaz'n work from Angelo.  He even pops up in a lot of fanzines, and he and Mort Drucker were lights out on the parodies at Mad.  So....how could I miss all that?  Feels too massive to just say so broke I can't even pay attention-he's like woven throughout the fabric of this artform I so love.  Anyhoo, I'm tak'n this amazeballs image as a wake-up call, and hopefully, Angelo Torres will become as "fun but redundant" on here as all the usual suspects