Flash Gordon
#1
(September 1966)
King Features,
1966 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1966-07-02
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- King Features Syndicate Inc.
- Brand
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King Comics
- Editing
- Bill Harris
Issue Notes
Not submitted to the Comics code Authority. On-sale date from 1966 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Flash Gordon / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Al Williamson
- Inks
- Al Williamson
- Colors
- Al Williamson (sourced) (color guide); Arlene Williamson (sourced)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Return with Flash to the strange planet Mongo!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Flash Gordon
- Awards
- Reprints
-
in Colecção Chico Zumba (Agência Portuguesa de Revistas, 1975 ? series) #5 - in Escaravelho Azul (Palirex, 1969 ? series) #v2#39
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in Flash Gordon (Editions Héritage, 1975 series) #3 -
in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #90 -
in Flash Gordon Comic-Book Archives (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #2 (December 2010) -
in Flash Gordon l'intégrale Al Williamson (Neofelis, 2012 series) (2012) -
in Serieskatter (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2015 series) #5 ([november] 2016) [0.25 page]
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Indexer 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
Flash Gordon Coloring Pin-Up Page / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Flash Gordon; Queen Undina; Underwater People
- Reprints
- in Flash Gordon Comic-Book Archives (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #2 (December 2010)
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Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Art taken from page 1, panel 2 and page 3 panel 3.
[no title indexed]
Flash Gordon / comic story / 15 pages
- Script
- Larry Ivie (sourced)
- Pencils
- Al Williamson (signed)
- Inks
- Al Williamson (signed); Gray Morrow (see notes)
- Colors
- Al Williamson (sourced) (color guide); Arlene Williamson (sourced)
- Letters
- Arlene Williamson (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A sleek rocket ship skims above the...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dale Arden; Flash Gordon; Dr. Hans Zarkov; 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
- 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.
- Reprints
- in Colecção Chico Zumba (Agência Portuguesa de Revistas, 1975 ? series) #5
- in Escaravelho Azul (Palirex, 1969 ? series) #v2#39 [Black & White]
- in Lyn Gordon (Romanforlaget, 1967 series) #1/1967 ([juli] 1967) which is reprinted
- in Serieskatter (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2015 series) #5 ([november] 2016)
- in Flash Gordon (Pinnacle Books, 1982 series) #[1] (41-333-5) - The Ice Monster ([1982])
- in Al Williamson's Flash Gordon, A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic (Flesk Publications, 2009 series) (June 2009)
- in Flash Gordon Comic-Book Archives (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #2 (December 2010)
- in Flash Gordon l'intégrale Al Williamson (Neofelis, 2012 series) (2012)
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in Flash Gordon (Zauberstern, 2023 series) #1 (August 2023)
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- Keywords
- Continent of Tropica; Mingo City; Mongo; Yale (cameo)
Indexer 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.
Midnight with Mandrake!
Mandrake the Magician / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- 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.
- Reprints
- in Lyn Gordon (Romanforlaget, 1967 series) #1/1967 ([juli] 1967) which is reprinted
- in Serieskatter (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2015 series) #5 ([november] 2016)
- in Mandrake the Magician: The Complete Series: The King Years (Hermes Press, 2016 series) #1 ([February] 2016)
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Indexer Notes
Scripting and inking credits from Martin O'Hearn; inking credit formerly given to Heck.
Teenage Space Explorers
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Wernher von Braun; Hermann Oberth; Willie Ley; Johannes Winkler
- Keywords
- American Astronautical Federation; American Interplanetary Society; Bell X1; Californias Reaction Research Society; Reaction Motors Inc
Flash Gordon and the Mole Machine
Flash Gordon / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Al Williamson (sourced)
- Pencils
- Al Williamson (signed)
- Inks
- Al Williamson (signed)
- Colors
- Al Williamson (sourced) (color guide); Arlene Williamson (sourced)
- Letters
- Arlene Williamson (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov returned from the planet Mongo after World War II to find that Earth scientists had ...
- Genre
- adventure; drama; science fiction
- Characters
- Dale Arden; Flash Gordon; Dr. Hans Zarkov; Princess Darla; Krenko
- 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.
- Reprints
- in Colecção Chico Zumba (Agência Portuguesa de Revistas, 1975 ? series) #5
- in Escaravelho Azul (Palirex, 1969 ? series) #v2#39 [Black & White]
- in Lyn Gordon (Romanforlaget, 1967 series) #1/1967 ([juli] 1967) which is reprinted
- in Serieskatter (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2015 series) #5 ([november] 2016)
- in Flash Gordon (Pinnacle Books, 1982 series) #[1] (41-333-5) - The Ice Monster ([1982])
- in Al Williamson's Flash Gordon, A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic (Flesk Publications, 2009 series) (June 2009)
- in Flash Gordon Comic-Book Archives (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #2 (December 2010)
- in Flash Gordon l'intégrale Al Williamson (Neofelis, 2012 series) (2012)
- in Flash Gordon (Zauberstern, 2023 series) #1 (August 2023)
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- Keywords
- Krenkelium; Mole Machine
Indexer Notes
Williamson is credited with the script in the letters section of Flash Gordon #2 and the coloring in issue #5.
Ming the Merciless
Flash Gordon Coloring Pin-Up Page / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Ming the Merciless
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. Taken from the first story, page 2 panel 4.
Map of the Planet Mongo
Flash Gordon / illustration / 1 page
- Script
- Al Williamson
- Pencils
- Al Williamson; Arlene Williamson (sourced) (finished drawing)
- Inks
- Al Williamson; Arlene Williamson (sourced) (finished drawing)
- Colors
- Al Williamson (sourced) (color guide); Arlene Williamson (sourced) (finished drawing)
- Letters
- Arlene Williamson (sourced)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- in Lyn Gordon (Romanforlaget, 1967 series) #1/1967 ([juli] 1967) which is reprinted
- in Serieskatter (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2015 series) #5 ([november] 2016)
- in Flash Gordon Comic-Book Archives (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #2 (December 2010)
- in Flash Gordon l'intégrale Al Williamson (Neofelis, 2012 series) (2012)
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Indexer Notes
Back cover. Williamson credit per the letters section in Flash Gordon #2.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Return with Flash to the strange planet Mongo!"]
Flash Gordon -
1.
Flash Gordon and the Underwater People
Flash Gordon Coloring Pin-Up Page -
2.
["A sleek rocket ship skims above the..."]
Flash Gordon -
3.
Midnight with Mandrake!
Mandrake the Magician -
4.
Teenage Space Explorers
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5.
Flash Gordon and the Mole Machine
Flash Gordon -
6.
Ming the Merciless
Flash Gordon Coloring Pin-Up Page -
7.
Map of the Planet Mongo
Flash Gordon
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