Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/August/August 21

August 21:

Film releases
 * 1981 - Mad Max 2, an Australian post-apocalyptic action film directed by George Miller

Television series
 * 1982 - Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All, an animated television film produced by Filmation
 * 1989 - Prisoners of Gravity, Canadian public broadcasting television news magazine program that explored speculative fiction, begins airing on TVOntario

Births
 * 1862 - Emilio Salgari (d. 1911), an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction in Italy
 * 1911 - Anthony Boucher (d. 1968), an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories

Anniversaries and events
 * 1933 - Brick Bradford, a science fiction comic strip created by writer William Ritt, begins serialization