Flash Gordon is the protagonist of a space adventure comic strip created and originally drawn by Alex Raymond.
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19 Facts About Flash Gordon
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Raymond's first Flash Gordon story appeared in January 1934, alongside Jungle Jim.
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The Flash Gordon strip was well received by newspaper readers, becoming one of the most popular American comic strips of the 1930s.
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In 1938, the Spanish magazine Aventurero, the only publication in the country to carry Flash Gordon, ceased publication because of the Spanish Civil War.
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Flash Gordon reappeared in Italy, Spain and West Germany, and it was syndicated to new markets like Portugal and the Irish Republic.
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Barry had several artists who aided him with Flash Gordon's illustrations, including Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Bob Fujitani, Jack Davis, Sy Barry, Fred Kida and Emil Gershwin.
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Flash Gordon is regarded as one of the best illustrated and most influential of American adventure comic strips.
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Flash Gordon 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.
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Flash Gordon was an influence on early superhero comics characters.
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Flash Gordon was played by Gale Gordon, later famous for his television roles in Our Miss Brooks, Dennis the Menace, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy.
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Flash Gordon starred Brian LeDuc as Flash, Kim Ehrich as Dale Arden, John Pelkey as Ming, and Julie Hamric as Princess Aura.
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Flash Gordon is a noble guy and it's kind of nice to have that kind of a hero".
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Flash Gordon produced a spin-off miniseries, Merciless: The Rise of Ming, in 2012, with story and art by Scott Beatty and Ron Adrian.
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Flash Gordon strip was adapted for the Big Little Books series by the Whitman Publishing Company in 1934; the books follow the strip stories very closely and were designed with a captioned illustration opposite each page of text.
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Name "Flash Gordon" was emblazoned on the proscenium of a ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
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The King Comics run of Flash Gordon reprinted one Alex Raymond story and two Mac Raboy ones in 1967.
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Flash Gordon has been released to DVD under a variety of titles and in both edited and non-edited versions.
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Flesh Flash Gordon is an American erotic science fiction adventure comedy film.
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