Speaker 1: Presenting the amazing interplanetary adventures of Flash Gordon. These thrilling
adventures come to you as they are pictured each Sunday
in The Comic Weekly, the world's greatest pictorial supplement of
humor and adventures. The Comic Weekly, now printed in thirty
two tabloid sized pages, each page in full four colors,
is distributed everywhere as an integral part of your hearst
Sunday newspaper for the benefit of those who made the
earlier episode. Here is the story today, Flash Gordon, internationally
famous American athlete, is beautiful American sweetheart Dale Arden and
doctor Zarkoff, a great scientists, left the Earth on a
rocket ship. They crashed on the planet Mongol and were
captured by Ming the Merciless, the cruel Emperor of Mongol,
who commanded Dale Arden to marry him, an order that
Flash be killed.
Speaker 2: But Flash escaped through.
Speaker 1: The help of Emperor Ming's beautiful daughter Ara, who fell
deeply in love with him and proposed marriage. This Flash refused,
saying he loved Dale Arden. Flash then met soon the powerful,
huge bearded Prince of the Lionmen and Prince Baron, a
former member of Emperor Ming's court. Joined by doctor Zarkov,
these four friends plotted to overthrow the government of Emperor
Ming and rescue Dale Arden. They were almost successful, but
at the last moment, with victory practically within their grasp,
were recaptured by Emperor Ming's soldiers, and the four friends,
together with Dale Arden, were condemned to a fate far
worse than death. Securely bounds, they were placed on a
gyro ship and sent as slaves to the prison city
of Hawkmen. Now we continue the stories. The prison ship
carrying our friends, roars.
Speaker 3: Through the stratosphere on the way to the prison city
of the Hawkmen.
Speaker 1: In the cell room, Flash and Prince Bone work feverishly
on each other's bonds.
Speaker 3: And you got the knock on tride Venton. It is
almost loosened flesh. Just another twist.
Speaker 2: There, our art freeze.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 3: Now, I'll set you free.
Speaker 5: If we work fast, we may be able to release
dark Up and Baton and get control.
Speaker 2: Of the ship.
Speaker 6: Good.
Speaker 7: As soon as thou canst loose my bonds, I will
help thee capture the guard and take these keys when
he makes his grounds. There there ropes on, don art,
I hear the guard approaching with your hands behind your
back like this, and lie still until he bends over
to give us food.
Speaker 3: Then we'll overpower. Right now, there he comes.
Speaker 6: Here is your food prisoner.
Speaker 3: Now, friend Zone, I have him past.
Speaker 6: Petty kis from my color.
Speaker 3: I'll give you something else from about you now I
got his skie. Soon now to save Tale, Paran and Zaka.
Speaker 8: But still the devil.
Speaker 3: What was that? We must first something I will write
toon Yes and no, friend, I'm okay. D here prince
soon and Iron here and you are free?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 7: And how did thou gain the liberty?
Speaker 1: Friends?
Speaker 2: The crash broke the lock at our tael door. Come quickly,
you must go in the control cabin and see about
the girl.
Speaker 3: Yes, hurry this way, sail all right still, yes, I
will right there.
Speaker 8: Cast your girl.
Speaker 6: Let go of me. I got to call me on
the space uphone.
Speaker 3: And this comming with my regards, he won't.
Speaker 6: Be able to transmit your message for quite some time.
Speaker 2: Last, let's get out of here.
Speaker 6: Let the others go soon. I need your great fans
to help me or remove the valuable scientific apparatus from
the sheep gun flash Coundale.
Speaker 2: We have no time for m with your bar.
Speaker 6: Too drench those space or grafts from their sockets. I
will take this space comfort.
Speaker 7: What else would stou like to have removed?
Speaker 4: Friends?
Speaker 6: That is enough for districts. Come on outside, where are
our friends?
Speaker 4: Barren and Flesh and Dale?
Speaker 6: They must have gone into the forest over Yanga. What
is that rushing sound by the Greek god?
Speaker 4: Call to a fair hawkman? Run friends, run for your lifings.
Speaker 1: Tenants flying lances held in readiness, A squadron of savage
hawkmen hurtle from the skies. They seize Thorne and zark
Off and sweep them into the air. While in the forest,
numb with horror, Flash, Dale and Barren watch their friends
carried away toward the city suspended in faith, the prison
city of Hawkmen.
Speaker 3: There they go with Soon and knack Off, and.
Speaker 2: That friend is the end of them.
Speaker 9: What do you mean, Baron?
Speaker 2: No man captive with the Hawkman has lived to tell
about it.
Speaker 3: How terrible you'll see about that barn. It's hopeless, Flash.
Speaker 9: Look, this city gives high in heavens, held up by
a powerful light, sem.
Speaker 2: What are we going to do now? Let's go back
to the rect ship.
Speaker 3: You may be able to pick this.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid the ship is beyond repair flag, but perhaps
it won't do any harm to.
Speaker 6: See Flash, I see a roughly sound.
Speaker 3: Why it's for rocket ship bearing down on it's going
to lend It made a perfect landing. I wonder who
the pilot is.
Speaker 2: A girl is getting out. He's holding a ray pistol.
Speaker 3: Why, Princess Ura, Well, Princess, this is a surprise.
Speaker 10: Fellows you to give you your last chance, Flash, Ordne, what
do you mean see part of this day? Laden? He
knows what I mean. I suppose you still want yes
marrying me and the empire is yours and your friends
goes free.
Speaker 9: And if I refuse, the hawkmen with my aid will
kill all of you.
Speaker 10: You shall never marry this girl Dale Art.
Speaker 3: Then, my dear Princess, if I must make a choice,
I choose Dale and death.
Speaker 2: That good for you. Flash, you'll signed our death warrants.
Speaker 3: I don't care as long as we are together. And
that's just how I do.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he will, you have made your choice. I go
to the hawkmen.
Speaker 2: Well, there goes the hoty beauty. In an hour, every
hawkman in Mongo will be after it.
Speaker 1: Prince Baron's prophetly comes through. He Flash and Dale are
captured by the Hawkman and dragged before the throne of
their king, Mighty Voltant. There the prisoners find Or leaning
on the arm of the great throne while King vault
and explains.
Speaker 4: To her, the Lord of Mongol, allow you to judge
and faid of one of these prisoners. Yellows belong to me.
Speaker 10: I will take you yellow hair. You makes you say
for us, gunning me?
Speaker 1: Hmmm.
Speaker 10: Incidentally, by torturing him, I can also torture dear skill.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, I beg you kill me.
Speaker 2: But stay a flash.
Speaker 8: Let the girl stay with me.
Speaker 4: You're in love with you?
Speaker 3: In love with him? Why just because I date the
plastic knife.
Speaker 10: Doesn't mean I love him?
Speaker 5: No, he's got you.
Speaker 10: You impressive, majesty.
Speaker 6: You are unn ah.
Speaker 8: I have read it, but you have desern But I
kissed you with your faith value. But I see I
was wrong. You have an unn your appreciation of men.
Speaker 10: Thank you, interested, majesty.
Speaker 3: I can also appreciate compliments.
Speaker 8: I shall show you how your friends have failed to
stand the rigors of the torture gamebirds.
Speaker 5: I don't care much the tortures, your majesty, but I
guess you can't help doing what the Emperor's daughter tells.
Speaker 8: Us to Emperor's daughter, I gave orders in this today,
but now it's your faith.
Speaker 2: Yes, interested majesty, I shall.
Speaker 8: Make you my wife as soon as the High Priest
can make happage.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, down in the porture chambers, Flash and
his friends have been put to work choking the great
atom furnaces of the Hawkman. Driven nearly mad by the
terrible heat and the anxiety of wondering what is happening
to Dale, flashes all for rebelling. He throws a shovelful
of flaming radium out of guard. The captain of the
Guard reaches for the switch which will electricute Flash by
passing the current through a wire fastened to his leg iron.
But doctor Zharkoff rushes up, and please do.
Speaker 6: Not kill him, captain. He is what andy pet us use.
We will make him work, and see that he does.
Speaker 3: If he's dark anymore trouble, he will die.
Speaker 6: Thank your captain, get back to work the rest of you.
Speaker 3: Flame, thanks, doctor Zakoff, But I just assumed die.
Speaker 2: Sails lost and patient Flash Dharkoff and I have a plan.
Come over here behind his lead walls.
Speaker 3: What are you going to do, Barren, I shall keep
watch for the guards.
Speaker 2: Get to work. Dakoff quickly, here, lacks, break these.
Speaker 6: Wires off your manner coats and wrap them around your shovels.
Speaker 2: All right, now, what he's gonna do?
Speaker 6: You hear what the captain says.
Speaker 9: If you start any law trouble, he will electrocute you
when I give you a sig. Now jump off and
throw your shovel into that radium being over there, and
get myself killed for it.
Speaker 6: I promise you you will not die, do if I
tell you?
Speaker 3: All right now, it's the.
Speaker 6: Coast, clear, Baddy. No one is looking this way now flash,
Come on, men, follow me better death than favorite usually,
then die like the rest. Here's all this week.
Speaker 3: The electric cons ignited the radium.
Speaker 2: All it work.
Speaker 8: It works to escape.
Speaker 3: I'm going to find sale.
Speaker 1: Back in the sumptuous waters of Voltaan, King of the Hawkmen,
He and Bale are awaiting the arrival of the high
Priest to perform the marriage ceremony.
Speaker 8: Pretty little bird, soon you will be the bride of
birth and the night day. But suppose you give me
a little kiss while we're waiting for the I p say,
come here, no, don't stop me, what you repose me? Girl?
Speaker 6: Come here?
Speaker 3: People wait for me?
Speaker 9: You you fat fool.
Speaker 2: Last darling.
Speaker 3: With a yellow fury flash drives.
Speaker 1: He sets to both the jaw the mighty things, staggers
back and following like a mad bull. Thinks her steel,
singing fingers into flashes, thot his left hand reaches for
his dagger, look out for his daggers.
Speaker 3: Smashing left and a crushing right hand.
Speaker 1: Uppercut. You got to kill an ordinary man, knocks the
bolt down into unconsciousness.
Speaker 3: That settles that up nail. Did he hurt you?
Speaker 1: No, Oh, my darling, I fearful.
Speaker 9: Think in your arms, they're so strong, tender He's.
Speaker 5: Arm for a mental holdure and protect you by heaven
they will as long as I have life, My dear, Oh,
wear about him and jock Off and though dark up
and Baron and are working on some scientific gadgets.
Speaker 3: Soon and I separated, looking for you. Come on, we'll
join him.
Speaker 1: Did you kill wildn.
Speaker 3: Alright, I don't know. There's no time to way of
finding out.
Speaker 9: Which way do we go from here?
Speaker 4: Look?
Speaker 3: Holders coming this way, turn to the right, tails down
that on the package. More soges fly.
Speaker 4: We're pop back to.
Speaker 3: The golden squarterstails. We can bother door or hold them
up while we were ringing to escape by the window.
There I back in golden squarters and we've escaped the holders.
Speaker 1: No, no, a firing?
Speaker 8: Why you.
Speaker 7: I have this rain?
Speaker 8: Did paint on you?
Speaker 1: Like it?
Speaker 7: Move?
Speaker 8: And both of you will?
Speaker 3: Don't have the girl? I surrender? Why the line right?
Speaker 6: The story is keeping up on wry tail. I'll say you.
Speaker 1: What is happening to the city of Hawkman first so
perilously five thousand feet above the ground on the planet Mongol.
What's terrifying experiences await our friends? Be sure to listen
in again next week for the continuation of the amazing
interplanetary adventures of Flash Gardens, the same all star American
athletes who will appear in full color pictures next Sunday
on the big thirty two page Comic Weekly supplement of
your Hearst's Sunday newspapers. What a treat is in store
for you in next Sunday's Comic Weekly, or besides Flash Gordon,
you'll find the greatest array of funny people ever assembled
in any magazine, waiting to entertain you. Just think of it.
Bringing up Father, the Little King, Barney, Google, Polly and
her pals, Toots and Kasper, Piet the Tramp, good Old
Skippy and your friends the Kats and Armory Kids, and
Lasted by no means lea that mischievous love of a
little mick him out. Yes, they'll all be there, besides
this Drummond Radio Patrol Jungle Jim, Red Barry and all
your other favorites. Be sure to get this big thirty
two page comic weekly with your Hearst newspaper next Sunday.
And now goodbye until next week at this time when
we'll be back with another amazing interplanetary adventure of Flash
Gordon