FLASH GORDON QUESTION

[gene]

Since it is now the 65th anniversary of the "Flash Gordon" comic strip, I have a question that I've never been able to get an answer for. It is "where did Dr. Zarkove come from-was he a friend of Flash? And..was he Ming's alter ego?"
I also loved the 1930's serial version-all those impossible , Jules Verne-style spaceships that made a noise like an old off-tuned radio!
And...Dale Arden was a real babe...too bad they didn't have thong bikinis in those days!

[According to Pliny]

I knew this once.

I think Dr. Zarkov was the inventor of the spaceship that took Flash, Dale and himself to the planet Mongo(I think that was the name of Ming's planet)

[ChiefScott]

True 'nuff, PB.

[Polycarp]

And, seeing himself as Columbus, Zarkov christened the ship he built the "Mongo Santa Maria"??

(Satan made me do it!)