Two other Flash Gordon films were made at Universal. And, in 1939, the studio cast Crabbe as Nowlan’s hero in the more modest serial Buck Rogers.

"Flash Gordon" character is from a bygone era of comic strips. Comic, Cards and Collectables hosting Saturday visit from lead actor in 1980 movie.

The Buck Rogers comic strip ran from until 1967, but the success of the strip created Buck’s biggest sci-fi action-hero rival, Flash Gordon. While Buck was published by the National Newspaper ...

Mad Cave's new Flash Gordon #1 is a fun and rollicking read, one that gives the ultimate space adventurer the modern reboot he deserves.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has won out in spirited bidding for the '30s comicstrip "Flash Gordon," negotiating with Hearst for the rights to make a live-action film.

Buck Rogers isn’t quite as well-known as Luke Skywalker, Captain James T. Kirk or Flash Gordon, but people are more familiar with Buck Rogers than John Carter, Hal 9000 and The Doctor from Dr ...

Flash Gordon, the foundational space superhero, is returning to comics for the first time since 2003. Artist Dan Schkade is leading the reboot.

Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon were certainly not the only means by which ordinary Americans learned their nuclear lessons in the years before Trinity; there were science fiction books and magazines and ...

No matter how bad “Buck Rogers” gets, it’s at least still better than Flash Gordon. Forced to choose between the two, this is the better way to get your cheesy Sci-Fi fix.

“Flash” originally was a science fiction newspaper comic strip drawn by Alex Raymond in the 1930s and was created to compete with another sci-fi strip, “Buck Rogers.” “Flash” was first ...

After starring in his own comic strip serial, Buck Rogers rapidly became the most popular science fiction hero of the 1930s, eventually rivaled by Flash Gordon.

A mainstay in science fiction culture and an influential touchstone since its genesis as a Sunday comic strip back in 1934, creator Alex Raymond's "Flash Gordon" crashed the scene 90 years ago as ...