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'Flash Gordon' Will Be A Comic Book Origins Story
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| 07/15/10
| ALAN STANLEY BLAIR
Posted on 07/19/2010 6:16:38 PM PDT by KevinDavis
The year was 1934 and the "Buck Rogers" adventure strip was a huge success.
Hoping to break into the lucrative goldmine that were science-fiction comics, Alex Raymond conceived of a new futuristic superhero who could protect the Earth and liberate alien worlds from merciless villains. And so "Flash Gordon" was born.
Following the outer space adventures of Flash and his companions Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov, the strip became immensely popular and proceeded to run as a daily comic strip for more than 60 years. During that time, "Flash Gordon" was transformed into three serial films and eventually received the big-screen treatment in 1980.
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: comicbook; comics; flashgordon; sciencefiction; scifi
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To be honest I forgot the God Awful tv show...
To: DCPatriot; spacewarp; GOPJ; IYAS9YAS; FrPR; GOP Poet; OriginalChristian; El Sordo; ronnyquest; ...
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posted on
07/19/2010 6:17:23 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(The meek shall inherit the Earth... the rest of us will take the stars!)
To: KevinDavis
I had forgotten it until I read the post. It was sad. I would take the cartoon made in 70s or early 80s easily.
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posted on
07/19/2010 6:19:44 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: KevinDavis
I read that the 1980 movie had almost no budget left because the makers spent most of it getting Queen to do the soundtrack.
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posted on
07/19/2010 6:20:19 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(DeMint 2012)
To: KevinDavis
Whatever happened to the new Buck Rogers web series?
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posted on
07/19/2010 6:23:09 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: GeronL; All
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posted on
07/19/2010 6:26:38 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(The meek shall inherit the Earth... the rest of us will take the stars!)
To: KevinDavis
Oh, that show was horrible. I couldn’t tell anyone apart. I loved the 1980 movie. Great soundtrack and Ornella Muti...
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posted on
07/19/2010 6:30:30 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: fieldmarshaldj; All
I know the 1980 movie was cornball, but it is a good cornball in a way... Indeed...
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posted on
07/19/2010 6:34:12 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(The meek shall inherit the Earth... the rest of us will take the stars!)
To: Artemis Webb
Aw, now I have that stupid song in my head: “Flash! Ooo ooo! He’s for every one of us! He stands for every one of us! Flash! Ooo Ooo!”
Darn it!...
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
07/19/2010 6:37:56 PM PDT
by
redhead
(Abortion: The number one killer of human beings. Period.)
To: KevinDavis
Oh, sorry... I thought you were talking about the movie. Awesome music track by Queen, the costumes must have been 85% of the budget.
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posted on
07/19/2010 6:39:00 PM PDT
by
redhead
(Abortion: The number one killer of human beings. Period.)
To: KevinDavis
I like Flash (the old Flash by Alex Raymond), but especially Dale. Here's a Dale Arden painting done by your fellow freeper februus:
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posted on
07/19/2010 6:41:10 PM PDT
by
februus
To: Artemis Webb
Flash.... A-ah....
Savior of the universe...
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posted on
07/19/2010 7:00:42 PM PDT
by
paudio
(Mr. 0bama, focus on Gulf, not Golf.)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
07/19/2010 7:03:18 PM PDT
by
Sybeck1
(ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.)
To: fieldmarshaldj; KevinDavis; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; redhead; paudio
I love the 1980 version. I know I should hate it, because it is horrible SF. But I cannot.
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posted on
07/19/2010 7:06:13 PM PDT
by
GreenLanternCorps
("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
To: GreenLanternCorps
To: GreenLanternCorps
Sam Jones was the weak link, but the rest of the supporting cast was excellent. Von Sydow was the definitive Ming.
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posted on
07/19/2010 7:14:52 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: KevinDavis
What about the bore worms? If there aren't any bore worms, I'm not interested.
Dang it, I loved the '80 movie. Max von Sydow, Brian Blessed, Ornella Muti, and yeah, that was Timothy Dalton.
Emperor Ming: "Pathetic earthlings! Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror."
He may have been correct, you know.
To: KevinDavis
I seem to remember there was an X-rated movie with the name “Flesh Gordon” in its title. Struck me as funny.
To: wally_bert
They made a decent animated movie around 1980. Not on DVD but there's an iffy-quality YouTube.
Flash Gordon, the Greatest Adventure of All. (1 of 9)
Some mighty nice old-school rotoscoping animation. They have the animated series on DVD but I much prefer this version.
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posted on
07/19/2010 7:28:37 PM PDT
by
Snake65
(Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!)
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