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Flash Gordon and Dale Arden meet Ming the Merciless for the first time in the Flash Gordon comic serial "On the Planet Mongo" (1934), art by Alex Raymond. Flash Gordon is an American space adventure comic strip from King Features Syndicate, created and originally illustrated by Alex Raymond to compete with the already established Buck Rogers ...
Flash Gordon (along with Buck Rogers) was a big influence on later science fiction comic strips, such as the American Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire (1935 to 1941) by Carl Pfeufer and Bob Moore. [3] In Italy, Guido Fantoni drew Flash Gordon in 1938, after the prohibition by the fascist regime. [ 29 ]
The Buck Rogers rocket pistol that had started it all 20 years earlier had been overtaken by the real world bazooka. "Space guns" in general and "rayguns" in particular only gained in prestige as the Cold War "space race" began and interest in "The Buck Rogers Stuff" was renewed, but it was no longer enough to offer a futuristic cap or pop gun ...
Crabbe made regular television appearances, including an episode of the 1979 series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, in which he played a retired fighter pilot named "Brigadier Gordon", in honor of Flash Gordon. When Rogers praises his flying, Gordon replies "I've been doing that sort of thing since before you were born", not realizing Buck was ...
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938, serial) Buck Rogers (1938, serial) The Phantom Creeps (1939, serial) The Stranger from Texas (1939) Oklahoma Frontier (1939) Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940, serial) The Green Hornet (1940, serial) Night Monster (1942) Enter Arsène Lupin (1944) The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) Wagons West (1952)
Flash Gordon (1936) as Flash Gordon; Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938) as Flash Gordon; Red Barry (1938) as Red Barry; Buck Rogers (1939) as Buck Rogers; Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940) as Flash Gordon; The Sea Hound (1947) as Captain Silver; Pirates of the High Seas (1950) as Jeff Drake; King of the Congo (1952) as Captain Roger ...
Rogers first appeared as Anthony Rogers in the August 1928 issue of the seminal science fiction magazine “Amazing Stories,” in a novella titled “Armageddon 2419 A.D.” by Philip Francis Nowlan.
Flash Gordon is a 1936 superhero serial film. Presented in 13 chapters, it is the first screen adventure for Flash Gordon, the comic-strip character created by Alex Raymond in 1934. It presents the story of Gordon's visit to the planet Mongo and his encounters with the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless.