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Issue Details

Issue #173
Published November 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "FLASH GORDON, No. 173." Code number is F.G. #173-4711. Copyright 1947 by King Features Syndicate. First Flash Gordon Four Color to feature original stories.

Cover Details - "Adventure in Opto"

Characters Flash Gordon; Dale Arden
Genre Science fiction
Pencils Paul Norris
Inks Paul Norris
Letters typeset

51 page Flash Gordon story "Adventure in Opto"

Characters Flash Gordon; Dale Arden; Chee; Keen; Vango; Regent Optik; Petito; Katonk; Dr. Zarkov
Synopsis Flash and Dale's spaceship in shot down on Opto, a planet where people cannot see but are guided by radar in the headgear they wear. Flash, Dale, and a girl named Chee escape from being killed by the High Tribunal, and make their way to the winter region of Opto, where the rebel Vango is plotting a revolt against the dictator, the Regent Optik.
Genre Science fiction
Pencils Paul Norris
Inks Paul Norris
Notes Story begins on inside front cover in black, red, and white. Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Mushroom clouds are depicted in several panels and one of the weapons is an "atom cannon."
Reprinted in Flash Gordon (Gold Key, 1965 series) #1 (1965) [-19 pages]