{"id":8286,"date":"2009-09-02T16:35:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T22:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=8286"},"modified":"2011-01-15T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T17:50:40","slug":"found-first-depiction-of-laptop-in-1937-flash-gordon-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/found-first-depiction-of-laptop-in-1937-flash-gordon-comic\/","title":{"rendered":"Found: First Depiction of Laptop in 1937 Flash Gordon Comic"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"spacephone-outlawsofmongo\"<\/a> <\/div>\n

Look there! That thing in the pawn of Ming’s hand. Could that be…a laptop as conceived by 1937artist Alex Raymond?<\/p>\n

A snippet of the Science Fiction Observer<\/a>‘s report<\/a> lay below:<\/p>\n

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\"flashgordon1937cover\"Browsing through his comics collection, Mr. Petreski stumbled upon a panel in Politikin Zabavnik weekly published June 14, 1974, featuring the forces of Ming the Merciless using a device which looks a lot like a laptop to talk to their leader.<\/p>\n

This particular comics represents a Serbian translation of an episode drawn around 1937 by Alex Raymond<\/a>. The title the magazine used is “Ming’s Prisoners”, while the contents probably covers part of the story “The Outlaws of Mongo<\/a>” which the Flash Gordon Wiki attributes to Alex Raymond and Don Moore, originally published as Sunday comics from August 15, 1937 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c June 5, 1938.<\/p>\n

The Wiki mentions the spacephone<\/a> as a “communication device used on Mongo,” but makes no mention about the laptop-like apparatus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other Flash Gordon-y things on GNET:<\/p>\n