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Cover Illustration to “The Time Trap of Ming XIII.” Courtesy of Oasis Family Media. Flash Gordon, the “space opera” science fiction hero, has appeared in many media. Beginning with an artistically-aware comic strip by master comic strip artist Alex Raymond, Flash has appeared in radio, television, and film series (including a Filmation animated production), a 1980 feature-length film, and multiple comic books. In the early 1970s, “Flash Gordon” was also a series of novels which balanced Flash’s vintage pulp origins with more contemporary and complex science fiction stories. The first four books are credited to Alex Raymond and Con Steffenson (the latter being the pen name of Ron Goulart), but were actually entirely the work of Steffenson/Goulart. The novels have recently received a new incarnation as audiobooks by Oasis Family Media as part of its “Paperbook Classics” series. The series is read by gifted voice artist Johnny Heller, who imbues aspects of perfo ....
Flash Gordon s Ming the Merciless is a discriminatory stereotype , says UK film censor The BBFC said having Swedish actor Max von Sydow as a villain of East Asian appearance could be deemed downright offensive 21 December 2020 • 9:30pm Max von Sydow with Sam Jones in Flash Gordon Credit: Universal Pictures To the generation that grew up watching Flash Gordon, Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless was one of the great screen villains. He was also a “discriminatory stereotype”, according to the British Board of Film Classification. The censor has added the warning to its rating for Flash Gordon, saying the casting of a white actor in the role could be considered “dubious if not outright offensive”. ....