Think of This as a Podcast with Pictures!
In the 1960s, due to the popularity of old radio adventure shows like The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, and I Love a Mystery being re-released on LP records, MGM/Leo the Lion Records created a series of new audio adventures of classic characters in the same style, but with hi-fi audio, such as this album starring Buster Crabbe, who played Flash Gordon in three movie serials from 1930 to 1940 reprising the role.
Trivia: Oddly, there weren't any albums of Flash Gordon's radio adventures until the 1970s!
Trivia: Oddly, there weren't any albums of Flash Gordon's radio adventures until the 1970s!
Though ostensibly-written by cast member Ronald Liss, one of the two tales...
...was based on a story in King Comics' just-revived Flash Gordon comic book, written and illustrated by noted creative Al Williamson, who had succeeded Alex Raymond on his Secret Agent X-9/Secret Agent Corrigan newspaper strip and had ghosted some of Dan Barry's 1950s run on Flash!
We've combined the two versions together in a Power Records-style presentation!
(The original album didn't include the comic book!)
(The original album didn't include the comic book!)
Click on the link HERE to open the audio file and read along
Note that the audio version is not a word-for-word transcription of the comic, but it's close enough that it's easy to follow the story...
Bonus: the art for the cover, uncropped and without text/trade dress.
Plus, a study done by Al Williamson for the album cover, inked and colored by Gray Morrow and used as the cover of the Flash Gordon-themed prozine Heritage (1972)...
BTW, we normally would've included a Flash Gordon story in our ongoing Space Hero Saturdays feature...except it takes place on (and under) Earth, not in space!
Next Week, a different World of Wonder!
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