Flash Gordon

At a strategy meeting in Tropica, Flash and his friends plan to recapture Vultan's mile-high Sky City now under control of Ming's robot guards. Flash and Thun return to Mongo City where they team up with Ergon, Leader of the Power. Ming dispatches his trusty aide Urzeen to Tropica to capture Dale and bring her back for his bride. Flash and his party stow away on a supply rocket ship to sky city where they immobilize Ming's energy shield that protects sky city. Vultan and his winged warriors and Prince Barin and his forestmen attack and recapture Sky City. It takes the verve of Flash and the genius of Ergon to re-connect the faulty anti-gravity beams, saving the falling city just before it slams into the ground. With Sky City secure, Flash hastens to Mongo City to free Dale from Ming. As the chapter ends Flash unexpectedly meets Ming, who freezes Flash into a solid mass of ice crystals.

With flashing flame swords, Flash and the now-revealed Prince Barin fight one another on a suspended high wire over the blazing green fire in the final game of Ming's tournament of death. Princess Aura saves the two fighters and they escape with Dr. Zarkov in their newly repaired earth rocket ship. Enroute to Arboria, Ming's space patrol hits Flash's rocket ship and he lands in Tropica, a virtual Garden of Eden. Flash saves Tropica's Queen Desira from a tree-dragon attack and he and his friends are invited by the queen to be guests of this lovely, tropical country. Desira's scheming cousin Braznor drugs the queen and prepares to take over the country. Flash and friends rescue the queen and they break for freedom astride giant horse-like gryphs. Flash and his friends escape a giant lizard-like monster and survive an attack by the dreaded rock termites. As the chapter ends we see Flash and party mysteriously suspended in midair and drawn as if by a magnet into the dark depths of the deepening cavern.

Flash, his memory erased, and Queen Azura board a great war chariot, drawn by two fierce dragon-like creatures, to lead the army of three-taloned, purple robed witch men into battle against Prince Barin's green-clad forest hunters and King Vultan's winged hawkmen. The witchmen crush the opposing forces and take Prince Barin and Vultan prisoner. Zarkov's scientific wizardry frustrates Queen Azura's plan to keep Flash under her spell as Gor Daahn as he restores Flash's memory. Azura's anger knows no bounds as she unleashes the monstrous fire king, talors, to stop Flash from fleeing her kingdom. With the help of one of Zarkov's wondrous ray weapons, Flash overpowers talors and escapes. As he departs Syk he is surrounded once again by Ming's forces and as the chapter closes Flash hears Ming warn him of this being their last meeting.

Flash and Queen Fria cleverly gain entry in the lair of the eight-foot giants who have captured Dale and Dr. Zarkov. As Flash engages Brukka, Chief of the Giants, in a fight, Queen Fria frees the others from their ice pit prison cells. Flash and friends flee the caverns of the giants and gain their freedom by leaping to a swift river far below the giant stronghold. As the party rafts down the unknown river they encounter the horrifying spectacle of the glacier monster, a huge three-tentacled electrified river eel. Flash eventually short-circuits and destroys the glacier monster, gaining freedom at last. The party concludes its visit to Frigia as it boards a rocket railroad for the trip back to Arboria.

Flash and his friends arrive in Arboria and are greeted by a huge swarm of flying, poisonous squirlons. Dr. Zarkov is bitten by a squirlon as the party swings through the tree forests in an attempt to escape the airborne rodents. Prince Barin, Thun and Vultan are reunited with Flash and his friends and all undergo the unknown dangers of the deep caverns, the river dragons and Ming's metalmen's attack before they finally find the rare antidote that saves Dr. Zarkov from the near-fatal squirlon wound.

The hawkmen capture Flash, Thun, Barin and Aura and fly them to King Vultan's mile-high, suspended sky city where the winged monarch announces he will marry Aura and sends Flash and his friends to slave in his atomic furnaces. Back at the palace Emperor Ming commands Dale to marry him and advises Dr. Zarkov that earth's days are numbered. In a spectacular sky battle Vultan's hawkmen are no match for Ming's rocket forces, who blast the hawkmen's sky city into rubble. Ming rescues his daughter Aura as his metalmen capture the city. This chapter ends with sky city in ruins and Vultan, Barin, Thun and Flash departing for Arboria where they will map their revenge on Ming the merciless.

To save the planet Earth from complete destruction, Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov fly into outer space where they crashland on the strange and mysterious planet of Mongo. As the three are taken prisoner by the Gillmen they meet other captives: Prince Barin of Arboria and Thun the Lion Man. Escaping their captors Flash and his friends find themselves hunted by the cruel Princess Aura and her women warriors across dangerous swamps. The heroes soon come face-to-face with the evil Ming the Merciless...