Reading Room: FLASH GORDON "Chapter Three: Danger in Volcania"

When Last We Left Our Hero...

...and now, on with the show!

Next Week:

The Secret Origin of Flash Gordon!

Who He Is and How He Came to Be!

(Not a dream!

Not an imaginary story!)

Writer Mark Schultz and artist Al Williamson's labor of love is about to take us where no one has gone before in Flash Gordon's history!

Don't miss it!

Reading Room: FLASH GORDON "Chapter 2.1: Escape from Blue Magic"

We Have Already Seen...

Flash Gordon's memory has been wiped by his captor, Azura (Queen of Blue Magic), who instructs the now-compliant Earthman to change the ship's course...

Thus, the first issue of Marvel's 1995 mini-series Flash Gordon ends.
But the second (and final issue) begins next Wednesday!
Dare you miss...
The Secret Origin of Flash Gordon?

Reading Room: FLASH GORDON "Chapter Two: Prisoners of Molluskum"

When Last We Left Our Intergalactic Hero...

Flash, Dale, and Zarkov head for Torneo (Mongo's "City of Tournaments", to open the non-lethal Olympic-style games that replaced the annual "Games of Death".
However, Azura, Queen of Black Magic kidnaps Flash for, as yet, unknown reasons!
Flash overpowers the kidnappers and the ship crashes into the sea...

What's Azura's Plan?
Find Out...in Two Weeks!
The opening and closing illustrations by Al Williamson for this post were the inside front and back covers to this tale from Marvel Select's Flash Gordon #1 (1995).

The tale is written (and probably laid-out) by Mark (Xenozoic Tales) Schultz.

Reading Room: FLASH GORDON "Chapter One: Treachery in Torneo"

Most people don't remember (or never knew) about this bit of comics history...

...when Marvel tried what Dynamite is currently doing, reviving the King Features Syndicate adventure characters in comic books!

To Be Continued
Next Week!

Of the three characters' (Flash Gordon, Mandrake, and The Phantom) series, this one was the best, featuring the one-time-only dream team of Mark (Xenozoic Tales) Schultz and Al (Do we have to tell you?) Williamson working on one of their favorite characters in a true labor of love!

Look for various "Easter eggs" and tributes to Flash Gordon history, like the spaceship on the first couple of pages, which is the one Flash, Dale, and Zarkov flew from Earth in the first Buster Crabbe movie serial!

BTW, if you want more Williamson Flash Gordon (and who wouldn't?), check out our re-presentation of his comic adaptation of the 1980 movie...

...by clicking here...

Flash Gordon: the Movie

Give Comics Go Pink to Fight Cancer Collectibles at Christmas!

More than 50 of King Features Syndicate's comic strip artists did their Sunday, October 10th 2010, strips with a pink color theme, a mention about fighting breast cancer, or both.

Besides the strips themselves, King Features produced a line of kool kollectibles using the art from those strips that you can order HERE.
A percentage of each product's cost goes directly to breastcancer.org to pay for cancer research.
For more info, and to see the complete set of strips from 10/10/10, go HERE.
The money goes to cancer research, and they'd make GREAT Christmas gifts for a comic-strip-loving breast cancer survivor or in remembrance of a loved one who passed away due to breast cancer!

Comics Go Pink to Fight Cancer Collectibles

Normally, we do a new Design of the Week on Friday.
Not this week.
A much more important matter takes precedence.
Breast Cancer.
More than 50 of King Features Syndicate's comic strip artists did their Sunday, October 10th 2010, strips with a pink color theme, a mention about fighting breast cancer, or both.

Besides the strips themselves, King Features produced a line of kool kollectibles using the art from those strips that you can order HERE.
A percentage of each product's cost goes directly to breastcancer.org to pay for cancer research.
For more info, and to see the complete set of strips from 10/10/10, go HERE.
Design of the Week will return next week.