(November 1947)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 52
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- A Dell Magazine
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "FLASH GORDON, No. 173." Code number is F.G. #173-4711. Copyright 1947 by King Features Syndicate. First Flash Gordon Four Color to feature original stories.
[Adventure in Opto]
Flash Gordon / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Paul Norris
- Inks:
- Paul Norris
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- Science fiction
- Characters:
- Flash Gordon; Dale Arden
- Reprints:
- in Flash Gordon Comic-Book Archives (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #1 (August 2010)
Adventure in Opto
Flash Gordon / comic story / 51 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Paul Norris
- Inks:
- Paul Norris
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- Science fiction
- Characters:
- Flash Gordon; Dale Arden; Chee; Keen; Vango; Regent Optik; Petito; Katonk; Dr. Zarkov
- Synopsis:
- Flash and Dale's spaceship in shot down on Opto, a planet where people cannot see but are guided by radar in the headgear they wear. Flash, Dale, and a girl named Chee escape from being killed by the High Tribunal, and make their way to the winter region of Opto, where the rebel Vango is plotting a revolt against the dictator, the Regent Optik.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Flash Gordon (Gold Key, 1965 series) #1 (1965) [-19 pages]
- in Flash Gordon Comic-Book Archives (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #1 (August 2010)
Indexer Notes
Story begins on inside front cover in black, red, and white. Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Mushroom clouds are depicted in several panels and one of the weapons is an "atom cannon."
Editing
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Merlin Haas
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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