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Issue: Flash Gordon #1
Publication Date: September 1966
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Issues: #1 of 12 Issues (17 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Standard Distribution
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagKing Features
Brand: King ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: King Features Syndicate Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/02/1966
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bill Harris
Disclose Notes: Not submitted to the Comics code Authority. On-sale date from 1966 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Flash Gordon
First Line: Return with Flash to the strange planet Mongo!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFlash Gordon Comic-Book Archives #2 published December 2010
as Flash Gordon #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEscaravelho Azul v2 #39 published ?
as A Volta ao Planeta Mongo [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSecrets of the Unknown #90 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagColecção Chico Zumba #5 published ?
as Flash Gordon regressa ao PLANETA MONGO! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagFlash Gordon #3 published ?
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The cover art is reprinted in Al Williamson's Flash Gordon, A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic (Flesk Publications, 2009 Series) #[nn]. This is also where the coloring credit is from.
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Flash Gordon and the Underwater People

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Flash Gordon Coloring Pin-Up Page
Character(s): Flash Gordon; Queen Undina; Underwater People
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFlash Gordon Comic-Book Archives #2 published December 2010
as Flash Gordon and the Underwater People [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Art taken from page 1, panel 2 and page 3 panel 3.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ming the Merciless; King Barin; Queen Aura; King Vultan; Hawkmen; Azura the Witch Queen; Underwater People; Queen Undina; Queen Fria; Ronal; Queen Desira; Bellam; Count Trival; Dr. Dravo; Traval
First Line: A sleek rocket ship skims above the...
Synopsis: Needing Radium to keep peace on Earth, Flash returns to Mongo, where it is plentiful. There Bellam and Dr. Dravo poison a solution designed to prolong life and give it to the Earth trio, but Dravo was a double agent, and they survive to thwart Bellam's plans.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLyn Gordon #1/1967 published July 1967
as Opplevelser i fremmende land [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFlash Gordon #[1] (41-333-5) published January 1982
as The Ice Monster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAl Williamson's Flash Gordon, A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic #[nn] published June 2009
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFlash Gordon Comic-Book Archives #2 published December 2010
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEscaravelho Azul v2 #39 published ?
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]Black & White
In Content Item: FlagColecção Chico Zumba #5 published ?
as Flash Gordon regressa ao Planeta Mongo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: A reply in the letters section of Flash Gordon #2 credits Al Williamson with the script and in # 5 with all the coloring. Per info in The Art of Al Williamson, Morrow inked the last page.

Re-introduces the classic Alex Raymond setting, characters and art style.
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Midnight with Mandrake!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Mandrake; Lothar
Synopsis: Mandrake and Lothar drive around the square and notice the gas rings from a candy ring sign are malfunctioning, and gassing the crowd. Using the smoke rings in his hypnosis magic Mandrake convinces the criminals that they are iron rings and imprisons them until they surrender to the police.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLyn Gordon #1/1967 published July 1967
as Midnatt med Mandrake [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Teenage Space Explorers

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Wernher von Braun; Hermann Oberth; Willie Ley; Johannes Winkler
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Flash Gordon and the Mole Machine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, drama, science fiction
Character(s): Princess Darla; Krenko
First Line: Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov returned from the planet Mongo after World War II to find that Earth scientists had ...
Synopsis: Dr. Zarkov experimenting with Mongo technology has developed a Mole Machine, and he and Flash use it to explore. Finding an undergound sea and city they are captured by Princess Darla and taken to her father, where they are sentenced to remain forever in the city of Krenkelium and their vehicle destroyed. With the help of the princess, they defy this sentence and in the process destroy a major threat to the city to prove their honorable intentions. Dropping off the princess after removing the threat, they head for home.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLyn Gordon #1/1967 published July 1967
as Muldvarpmaskinen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFlash Gordon #[1] (41-333-5) published January 1982
as The Mole Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAl Williamson's Flash Gordon, A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic #[nn] published June 2009
as Flash Gordon and the Mole Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFlash Gordon Comic-Book Archives #2 published December 2010
as Flash Gordon and the Mole Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEscaravelho Azul v2 #39 published ?
as A Máquina Perfuradora [Story on Interior Page(s)]Black & White
In Content Item: FlagColecção Chico Zumba #5 published ?
as Flash Gordon - A Máquina Perfuradora [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Williamson is credited with the script in the letters section of Flash Gordon #2 and the coloring in issue #5.
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Ming the Merciless

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Flash Gordon Coloring Pin-Up Page
Character(s): Ming the Merciless
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFlash Gordon Comic-Book Archives #2 published December 2010
as Ming, the Merciless [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Taken from the first story, page 2 panel 4.
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Map of the Planet Mongo

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLyn Gordon #1/1967 published July 1967
as Kart over planeten Mongo [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFlash Gordon Comic-Book Archives #2 published December 2010
as Map of the Planet Mongo [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Williamson credit per the letters section in Flash Gordon #2.

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