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Flash Gordon (Alex Raymond’s…)

    (Checker, 2004-2005)
™ and © Checker Book Publishing Group

When the plane of “world renowned polo player” Flash Gordon and Dale Arden, “a passenger” (this is their characterization in its entirety), is downed, and they’re kidnapped by Dr. Zarkoff. He fears they’ll expose (?) his plan to save Earth from imminent collision with the planet Mongo by flying his rocket into it. Naturally, he takes them along. There are unexpected pleasures in reading Flash Gordon from its beginning, such as seeing how long it took Raymond to break away from the rigid multi–panel grid and start drawing the spectacular panoramas for which he’s famous. Moreover, looking at his art, it’s obvious from whom 90% of Golden Age comic book artists were swiping. The “plot,” however, is ludicrous, consisting almost entirely of Flash and Dale (in a nice touch of gender equality) both losing much of their clothes and narrowly escaping unwanted sexual contact. The goofiness reaches a crescendo, when we note a monster’s pit has a helpful sign reading: “Danger: Dragon Feeding Chute.” You just don’t expect that level of worker safety from Ming the Merciless.

— S.A. Bennett
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  • 1
    #1
    Cover: $14.95
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    Caverns of Mongo 3/3/1935-4/14/1935; Monsters of Mongo 4/22/1934-11/18/1934; On the Planet Mongo 1/7/1934-4/15/1934; Tournaments of Mongo 11/25/1934-2/24/1935
    No copies available
  • 2
    #2
    Cover: $19.95
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    At War with Ming 10/20/1935-4/5/1936; Undersea Kingdom Of Mongo 4/12/1936-10/11/1936; Witch Queen of Mongo 4/21/1935-10/13/1935; ca. 2005
    No copies available
  • 3
    #3
    Cover: $19.95
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    Beast Men of Mongo 4/25/1937-8/8/1937; Forest Kingdom of Mongo 10/25/1936-1/31/1937; Outlaws of Mongo 8/15/1937-6/5/1938; Tusk Men of Mongo 2/7/1937-4/18/1937
    No copies available
  • 4
    #4
    Cover: $19.95
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    Ice Kingdom of Mongo 3/12/1939-1/21/1940; The Tyrant of Mongo 6/12/1938-3/5/1939
    No copies available
  • 5
    #5
    Nov 2005
    Cover: $19.95
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    Fall of Ming 1/19/1941- 6/29/1941; Ice Kingdom of Mongo 1/28/1940- 4/7/1940; Power Men of Mongo 4/14/1940- 1/12/1941; Return to Earth 7/6/1941- 8/24/1941
    No copies available
  • 6
    #6
    Cover: $19.95
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    ca. 2006
    1 copy for $12.00
  • 7
    #7
    Cover: $19.95
    W: Alex Raymond, Don Moore  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    Battle For Tropica 7/18/1943 to 2/6/1944; Fiery Desert of Mongo 5/16/1943 to 7/11/1943; Marvela 8/20/1944 to 2/4/1945; Triumph in Tropica 2/13/1944 to 8/13/1944; ca. 2006
    1 copy for $12.00
  • Bk 1/HC
    Book #1 Hardcover
    Hardcover Edition
    Cover: $19.95
    W: Alex Raymond  ·  A: Alex Raymond
    No copies available