Cellulose
to Celluloid: Flash
Gordon on Paper and Film
Chapter
Two: Interplanetary Flight to the Unknown
The
Earth People seem to be on a suicide course --
their first adventure may be their last in the comic
strip.
The
runaway planet is their vague destination in the serial.
Zarkov
and his friendly aides want to save the Earth, but have
no idea what they'll do once they arrive.
Things
are not so sanguine in the newspapers. Dale takes the
initiative, and helps take Zarkov out of the picture.
The
movie mixes bleak rocky deserts with a distant, exotic
city.
The
Sunday page brings the extra-planetary cities closer
to the audience,
since they are cheaper to draw than to build.
Raymond's
runaway rocket is doomed to a crash-landing. Zarkov
is left behind, but appears again in a later episode.
Universal's
avuncular Zarkov lands gently, but noisily, on the strange
new planet with his two young companions.
Flash
Gordon
is the property of it's copyright holders. All images
are used for scholastic purposes ONLY in the context of this
article.
Text and graphic design copyright by Michael R. Evans 2008
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