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Issue Details

Issue #190
Published June 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
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Notes Indicia title is "FLASH GORDON, No. 190." Code number is F.G.O.S. #190-486. Copyright 1948 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Fourth of eight Flash Gordon Four Colors.

Cover Details

Characters Flash Gordon; Dale Arden; Wongee (villain); Queen Velma (villain)
Genre science fiction
Pencils Paul Norris (signed)
Inks Paul Norris (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Wrap-around cover.

1 page Flash Gordon activity "Flash Gordon's Space Ship The Mongo Special"

Synopsis Drawings of Flash Gordon's rocketship. To be pasted on cardboard and cut out and assembled.
Pencils Paul Norris
Inks Paul Norris
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white.

48 page Flash Gordon story "The Adventure of the Flying Saucers"

Characters Flash Gordon; Dale Arden; Queen Velma (villain); Wongee (villain); Ongee (villain); Agricula; Dr. Zarkov (cameo)
Synopsis While on Mongo, Flash and Dale spot flying "disc-ships" traveling from the planet Misto to attack Earth. They follow the ships to Earth, where Flash destroys the fleet, except for the ship of the commander, Wongee; who disables Flash's ship. Flash attaches his ship to Wongee's and after a mutiny against Wongee, Flash and Dale are taken to Misto. They escape from the ship as it comes in for a landing and find themselves in the midst of a rural area. A friendly peasant, Agricula, hides them and then they make their way to the Queen's palace where they find that Wongee is enacting his plans to overthrow the throne.
Genre science fiction
Script Paul Norris
Pencils Paul Norris
Inks Paul Norris
Notes The Overstreet Price Guide lists this as the fifth story involving flying saucers to appear in comic books.

1 page Flash Gordon activity "Misto Disc Ship"

Synopsis Drawings of the top and bottom of a Misto Space Ship. Designed to be pasted to cardboard and cut out and glued back to back to make a flying disc.
Pencils Paul Norris
Inks Paul Norris
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white.

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