The Amazing Adventures of Flash Gordon, Volume 1

The Amazing Adventures of Flash Gordon #1

by Dan Barry, Bob Fujitani

Here is Flash Gordon... held prisoner by Undina, Queen of Mongo's Water World. ....Confronting the deadly Dahlmeister- who is determined to destroy Flash. ... Traveling back in time to ancient Greece.

187 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

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[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a mass-market paperback black-and-white collection of three Flash Gordon newspaper strip adventures from the 1970s (I believe), which would have been illustrated by Dan Berry and written by Harry Harrison, based, of course, on Alex Raymond's iconic space hero. Curiously, their are no names on the book anywhere, is just says copyright by King Features. The art is really quite good, very reminiscent of Raymond's original style and detail. The stories are Return to the Water World of Mongo (which sees Flash captured by the deposed Queen Undina), The Return of the Dahlmeister (which has a nice nod or two to The Incredible Shrinking Man), and Adventure in Greece (which is a very odd non sequitur story which has Flash and a lovely young woman named Vicki stranded in ancient Greece when their time-hopper malfunctions.... I really didn't get what happened in this one at all.) Fun stuff, a quick read, and two out of three ain't bad...

[John Peel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This volume reprints three stories from the daily comic strip version of "Flash Gordon", though the choice of stories for the first book in a series is odd - all three are sequels to previous stories that aren't included. Still, they're easy enough to pick up the adventures as you go along. Light and undemanding, the stories are amusing enough.