Flash Gordon art by Alex Raymond.
Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon) did the film poster for Captain Blood (1935). alex raymond flash gordon errol flynn pirates swashbucklers
Flash Gordon had some rocket designs that were deeply abstracted and unusual. alex raymond flash gordon rockets
artdec0 vintagegeekculture “Queen Fria accompanies Flash on his rescue mission”- Alex Raymond (1939) flash gordon alex raymond newspaper comics vintage
I have often wondered if Queen Fria’s nordic braids from the 1939 Flash Gordon comic strip inspired Princess Leia’s hairstyle. Flash Gordon Princess Leia Vintage Comics Comic Strips alex raymond
The Ming Dynasty: Ming the Merciless (top), who was only identified as “The Emperor” until his personal introduction in the Flash Gordon strip;Ming’s illegitimate son, Kang the Cruel (second down);Ming’s son in law, Barin, who started as the leader of a resistance movement to Ming before becoming King of Arborea in a Trial-by-Combat;Princess Aura, Ming’s daughter (over the years she, like all Mongo inhabitants, lost her lemon-yellow coloration in the early strips). Her mother was never identified in the Raymond strips except for an offhand line that she died in childbirth; Finally, Prince Alan, son of Aura and Barin. flash gordon alex raymond newspaper strips king features
“The New Adventures of Flash Gordon” (1996). This was the version of Flash Gordon that reimagined Dale and Flash as extreme skaters with hoverboards and midriff revealing outfits (including some on women). It truly boggles my mind that they didn’t call this “Flash Gordon X-Treme.”Most people prefer not to talk about this version because it is so very Poochie, but it did add two big pieces to Flash Gordon lore that seem to have stuck around: 1) the idea of travel to Mongo via wormhole instead of rocket, and 2) the idea that Flash Gordon’s first name is actually Alex (a reference to creator Alex Raymond). The idea of a gender-flip Prince Thun of the Lion Men does create some interesting possibilities, though… flash gordon nineties 1990s
Sharon Bruneau and Debbie Muggli as the two female cyborg assassins in Albert Pyun’s “Nemesis 3: Time Lapse” (1996).