Flash Gordon Novels Series by Alex Raymond, Melvyn Grant, Con Steffanson, David Hagberg

Alex Raymond. Flash Gordon in the Caverns of Mongo. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1936. First edition. Octavo. 218 pages. Jacket art and pictorial endpapers by Robb Beebe.Publisher's original orange cloth with titles in black on the spine and front board.The first novel based on the strip.

"The Lion Men of Mongo" is the first of a series inspired by the world famous comic strip FLASH GORDON, read daily and Sunday by millions of fans throughout the world.After crash landing on the planet Mongo, Flash, Dale, and the eminent scientist, Dr. Zarkov, fight against the evil forces of Emperor Ming, who seeks to perpetuate his rule by ruthless and savage methods.

A spaceship captured in a magnetic field and pulled beneath the earth into an underground city, Flash Gordon jumps to safety only to be caught in the web of a giant man-eating spider, then saved by a titian haired beauty.Pan, a madman musician, seeks to rule a planet by the shattering effects of ultra-high frequency sound.Romance, spine tingling adventure, the sciences of the future, all combine to make The Plague of Sounds a book you won't put down.

Flash Gordon is kidnapped and forced to perform as a trapeze artist in a circus of slaves. Flash foils his captors and forms an expedition to end the tyranny on the planet Mesmo.

Victimized by a psychic teenage prankster, Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, and Dr. Zarkov find themselves instantly transported to the planet Mongo, where Flash is captured and drugged by the ravishing witch Queen Azura and her evil cohort -- none other than Ming the Merciless, Jr! But Zarkov and Dale escape to Arboria, and enlist the aid of Prince Barin, who, by use of a brilliant ruse, sets in motion a series of violent encounters and hair's breadth escapes that place Flash's life in imminent peril.

Sent on a rescue mission by the leaders of the planet Earth, Flash Gordon and his companions Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov find themselves involved in an intricate war plan which threatens the existence of the entire universe. Each step they take propels them further into the complex plots and counterplots of two warring worlds.