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Issue Details

Issue #512
Published November 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "FLASH GORDON, No. 512." Code number is F.G.O.S. #512-5311. Copyright 1953 by King Features Syndicate. Continued from Flash Gordon (Dell, 1953 series) #2 (May-July 1953).

Cover Details

Characters Flash Gordon
Genre science fiction
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page Flash Gordon foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Cast of Characters"

Characters Flash Gordon; Dr. Zarkov; Dale Arden; Ming the Merciless (villain); Zara (Ming's daughter)
Synopsis Introduction of the cast of the story.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Frank Thorne
Inks Frank Thorne
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

34 page Flash Gordon story "The Zarkov Line"

Characters Flash Gordon; Dale Arden; Dr. Zarkov; Ming the Merciless; Zara (Ming's daughter)
Synopsis Ming's raiders stage an attack on "The Zarkov Line," an early warning defense system based in an asteroid belt, as a diversion to allow a ship to slip through and kidnap Dr. Zarkov and Dale Arden. Ming intends to force Zarkov to give him information about the Earth's defenses. Flash goes to Mongo to rescue Dale and Zarkov but is captured. Ming's daughter Zara comes up with a plan to allow her and the three captives to return to Earth. Once on Earth, Zara will give false information about the attack in order to sabotage the asteroid defenses.
Genre science fiction
Pencils Frank Thorne [as FT] (signed)
Inks Frank Thorne [as FT] (signed)
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Splash panel is signed "FT".