Flash Gordon #1 King 1968 military giveaway is it scarce? 3 3

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/27/2022 at 7:28 PM, Yorick said:

To answer your question, no.  It was in the Filipino comics thread and had Flash with two other characters arm-in-arm (drawn by Williamson) over a white background.  It was titled "King Comics", not Flash Gordon.

I found it Yorick, stop looking 

 

[Yorick]

I remembered it completely wrong.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/27/2022 at 7:37 PM, Yorick said:

I remembered it completely wrong.

State of it. The comic, not your memory.

Probably the only one in existence 

[Get Marwood & I]

These two posts might interest you @Yorick, from my 'Oddly Similar' thread:

On 11/30/2021 at 10:45 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

When I started the thread, my intention was for us all to post books which are 'oddly' similar, in the sense that they are not obvious homages, swipes or copies. I was looking for books that had a similarity that was likely unintentional.

Look at these two books below. Have you ever wondered why Flash was in such a cack-handed pose on the cover of the King Comic's Flash Gordon #10? He looks like he's put his back out, and is struggling to move.

But now we can see why, as the pose is a direct swipe of the Fantasy Reader that preceded it:

 

Our cover girl takes up so much space on that cover, that Flash had to bend down to fit in.

So here, the similarity is deliberate. Flash was copied. So it is not 'oddly similar'.

There are no hard and fast rules of course - people are free to post what they like, and I've posted some fairly obvious swipes myself, but oddly similar books like these two below will get a special nod of appreciation from me:

 

On 4/5/2022 at 3:55 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

  

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"That's the last time I'm going to that dentist...."

 

 

[Yorick]

On 4/27/2022 at 11:38 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

State of it. The comic, not your memory.

Probably the only one in existence 

At least we have a photo of it!  I'd buy that book in a heartbeat (hard to control this fetish...) 

I've been waiting for Quasar Comics to come down on their price for the 31, 32, 33 CGC copies they have on feebay.  Slowly....  very slowly they've now reached the $500 mark.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/27/2022 at 7:43 PM, Yorick said:

At least we have a photo of it!  I'd buy that book in a heartbeat (hard to control this fetish...) 

I know, you can't be choosy when they're that scarce. If one ever falls in my lap, it's yours. 

On 4/27/2022 at 7:43 PM, Yorick said:

I've been waiting for Quasar Comics to come down on their price for the 31, 32, 33 CGC copies they have on feebay.  Slowly....  very slowly they've now reached the $500 mark.

[rjpb]

On 4/27/2022 at 11:08 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Ha!

There seem to be two versions in circulation - the one shown in this thread and one with the purple colouring missing above the top corner complimentary wording:

  

Which do you have Yorick?

I wonder if the one on the right is the "cerebral palsy" giveaway listed on GCD, which I thought was just an error in attribution to the military one.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/27/2022 at 11:39 PM, rjpb said:

I wonder if the one on the right is the "cerebral palsy" giveaway listed on GCD, which I thought was just an error in attribution to the military one.

There's a thought. I assumed it was misattributed too, given the prevalence of the full coloured copy. First one to find a copy finds out!

[pemart1966]

As an aside ...the issues done by Williamson are superb.

[MAY1979]

My introduction to Flash Gordon was the 1980's Film, Classic but Cheese

As mentioned above the Williamson work  was excellent! The story's IMHO were very simplistic even in their own day.

 

General Kala, Flash Gordon approaching
What do you mean Flash Gordon approaching?
Open fire - all weapons
Despatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body
Gordon's alive! live live  live

 

Edited April 28, 2022 by MAR1979

[ramrodcar]

On 4/27/2022 at 1:22 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Flash! Ah-aah! King of the IMPOSSIBLE!

Sheesh, his color coordination is atrocious, purple adult size onsie, green tights, orange cummerbund, red cape.... you can tell the girl is thinking the same thing, she's not leaning in, she's pushing away.

Edited April 28, 2022 by ramrodcar

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/28/2022 at 6:05 PM, ramrodcar said:

Sheesh, his color coordination is atrocious, purple adult size onsie, green tights, orange cummerbund, red cape.... you can tell the girl is thinking the same thing, she's not leaning in, she's pushing away.

Flash! Ah-aah! He's a MIRACLE!

[Get Marwood & I]

[Yorick]

On 4/28/2022 at 11:11 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Look at the size of Flash's hand.... and then how tiny Dale's is.

STOP MAKING FUN OF MY FAVORITE COVERS!!!! 

[ramrodcar]

On 4/28/2022 at 1:14 PM, Yorick said:

Look at the size of Flash's hand.... and then how tiny Dale's is.

STOP MAKING FUN OF MY FAVORITE COVERS!!!! 

that hand is all sorts of messed up, where's the thumb (seems like her hand is in a really unnatural position) ? I don't have a copy of this book, does she have any fingernails? I can't tell from the scan.

[Yorick]

On 4/28/2022 at 11:35 AM, ramrodcar said:

that hand is all sorts of messed up, where's the thumb (seems like her hand is in a really unnatural position) ? I don't have a copy of this book, does she have any fingernails? I can't tell from the scan.

Her thumb is naturally hidden from our perspective, but she does not seem to have fingernails.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/28/2022 at 7:14 PM, Yorick said:

Look at the size of Flash's hand.... and then how tiny Dale's is.

It didn't stop him dropping his gun though did it, which appears to be bent upwards. And is it me, or is there a faint hint of lippy about the Gordon bouche?

[Yorick]

On 4/28/2022 at 12:07 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

It didn't stop him dropping his gun though did it, which appears to be bent upwards. And is it me, or is there a faint hint of lippy about the Gordon bouche?

Maybe Al thought that the ray gun would blend in with that background building if he kept the lines parallel.  Bend the gun!  The colors on the actual cover are my preferred version (no lipstick).  I don't have one of those postcards.

[Get Marwood & I]

On 4/29/2022 at 2:52 AM, Yorick said:

Maybe Al thought that the ray gun would blend in with that background building if he kept the lines parallel.  Bend the gun!  The colors on the actual cover are my preferred version (no lipstick).  I don't have one of those postcards.

I picked up a set of three some years back - I think they're fantastic.

[Wipple]

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