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Issue: Four Color #173
Publication Date: November 1947
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Issues: #173 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Flash Gordon
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell Magazine [circle]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 2 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose 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.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Adventure in Opto

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Flash Gordon; Dale Arden
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFlash Gordon Comic-Book Archives #1 published August 2010
as Four Color #173 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Adventure in Opto

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Flash Gordon; Dale Arden; Chee; Keen; Vango; Regent Optik; Petito; Katonk; Dr. Zarkov
First Line: Flash, you're deliberately flying into their line of fire.
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFlash Gordon #1 published June 1965
as The Eyes of Opto [Story on Interior Page(s)]-19 pages
In Content Item: FlagFlash Gordon Comic-Book Archives #1 published August 2010
as Adventure in Opto [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 51
Disclose 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."

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