September 23, 2025 • 32 mins
Today's Adventure: In the Pit of Peril, Flash tries to save Azura from a hoard of vengeful dwarves, Tahl has proclaimed himself King, and Zarkov loses the last of his invisibility power to try and find Flash.
Originating Radio Broadcast Date: September 21 and 28, 1935
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Gale Gordon as Flash Gordon; Maurice Franklin; Bruno Wick
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Originating Radio Broadcast Date: September 21 and 28, 1935
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Gale Gordon as Flash Gordon; Maurice Franklin; Bruno Wick
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we
are going to bring you this week's episode of the
Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon. But before we get started,
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Speaker 2 (01:01):
You can find the podcast, along with all of our
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Speaker 1 (01:06):
At Great Detectives dot net. But now, from September twenty
first and September twenty eighth, nineteen thirty five, here are
chapters twenty one and twenty two of the Interplanetary Adventures
of Flash Gordon.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Presenting the amazing interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon. Last week,
Flash Gordon, growing more and more visible, followed Queena Zero
when she was captured by the desk Walks and taken
to hooko their King Well Zarkov rescued Dale Iden from
the Flaming cottage, and they destroyed the invisibility machine to
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prevent the Blue Magic Men from using it. In the meanwhile,
calm the Hawkman and had the soldiers show him the
iron door leading to the Pit of Peril, which Azura
and Flash had disappeared. He ordered them to open the
iron door. Paul arrived and questioned Kahn's authority. Then Tall
declared that as Azua was dead, he was a new ruler.
Con refused to acknowledge him ruler until it was definitely
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proved that Flash was dead. When the iron door was opened,
neither Flash nor a Zura answered. When their names were
called back in the tunnel, King Hoko ordered a Zura
taken to the fiery pit and burned to death.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
These thrilling adventures come to.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You as they are pictured each Sunday in The Comic Weekly,
the world's greatest pictorial supplement of humor and adventure. The
Comic Weekly, each page printed in full colors, is distributed
everywhere as an integral part of your Hearst Sunday newspaper.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Now we continue the story, and a.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Pit of fire with a sewer, we'll roast the magic
of Hoko kill me if you choose, but do not
to you, do not touch you. Why should we not
give you some of your own medicine? Have you not
torture us? Have you not continued to torch for us
by keeping us a knee dog? You are men? I
am only a defenseless woman. Defenseless. Yes, no, your omens.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Are not with you. Listen to me.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
I will bargain with you. Fucking whoever heard of our
prison or bargaining? Listen to our men. She will bargain
with me. Then I will trade with you, trade with me,
one of you to pray?
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Is your freedom?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Freedom? My freedom for yours? What do you mean? You
will return me to my blue magic people says, and unharmed.
I will open the iron door to you and give
you back your freedom. I let you go. You will
let us out of air, treat her own in the daylight,
treat your go and come and we seeve where we
these I will and you won't have your soldier skills off.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
No, no, I promise, Well what you say, will you
return me to my people?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
No? You won't, No, I will not. This is the moment.
I've been waiting for the other for years. I've thought
of getting you in my power.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
Now that I have you, I'm going.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
To put you out away of good mercy O, go
mercy little the text for Bercy get along on a
fiery call.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
As Hoko, king of the Death Dwarfs Forces Queen Asura
had spear point out to the bubbling flames, spitting coloring
of an underground volcano. Flash Gordon awfully visible the sides
on a desperate attempt to save the witch Queen and
backers there save the Dwarfs, screaming rage and terror as
a blonde wild man drops into their midst.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I'll picture you're a monster.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Help him kill a tire?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yeah, what a to do? Let me down? Let me down?
Speaker 9 (04:49):
You better let you down right into the boiling and burnomish.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
What do we do now? The group between us and
the courage is the undre.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Fash not yet come on my back, round my neck
and the whole time, what are you going to do? Fast?
Speaker 9 (05:04):
I was on the college practice for nothing. I'm going
to use Hoko's peers a vaulting call. Hang on, here
we go.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And with those words, Flash Gordon swings Azora and himself
up and soars over the heads of the enraged warts.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Oh free, Now, if only we can get out that
iron door.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
We can ask these dwarfs, let's run for it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
In the meantime, doctors art Off and Dyo Warden arrive
at the Palace walls.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Here we are at the palace Dale.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yes, doctors, where should I hire our horse?
Speaker 7 (05:47):
I lead him over there until we can't see how
the lands like, Oh, Doctors.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I do hope we are too late.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I hope Flashes rush Flash to use his head.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Dale.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
He will not willingly risk his life for nothing. If
he is dead, it is only because he died fighting
for his life. What's that his son is going down?
It must be the changing of the guard. Right up
to the gate, they will only see you, And when
they get you inside, I will slide off your horse
and follow you wherever they take you, all right to darker.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I don't care what they do to me.
Speaker 10 (06:17):
If only I can say Flash, Oh God.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
They see that I mean me. They let it down
the garden.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Good, right out into the palace yard.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Oh, why the girl, where did you come from?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Where is Flash Gordon? Take me to him at once?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
What?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Take me to Flash Gordon at once?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Did you hear? Comrade?
Speaker 8 (07:00):
He wants to be taking the flash?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
D all right, girl, come this way, you'll get your wish.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
What is the probe me?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I do not know, Dale, and.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
I do not like the way he said that. Wait
until we get around the corner. I will grant this rifle.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Ah, yeah, yeah, give me back my rifle.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Girl, I haven't got, I haven't got. That is enough
out of you. Get down of the horse quickly, Daale.
There is no time to lose.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I'm done. Know what do we do?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Get rid of this animal? First? Yeah, get along.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Now we will tie this guard up and hide him
so we cannot give the alarm too soon.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah. Give you your cloak, Dail, here it is now.
First we will take him. Put it in his mouth.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
He can't speak, now, that's fine.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Now Now tie his arm a little more round there,
that's right, and now his feet hither, yes, one more not? Oh,
dear open that door, Dail, How we will put him
in that classet? Help me with his sweet tails. Now
we will stretch the pelly for fleash cotton.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
At this moment, Paul the Chief Magician is highly elated
that the way things have turned out.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
So you thought you were ruling that blue magic lant that.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Can I can hardly believe that flash Gordon is dead.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Well he is.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
No one can live in that pitter peril, and I think,
as you're a flash Garden take her down there.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
More than likely she intended to push him in and
Planleador after him, but he was too quick for her
and dragged her with him.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
As you're a thought you were smart putting flash Garden
at the head of her armies when your hawkman attacked that.
So she was well, I'm still alive, but where is
your and her ex commander in chief?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
That's what I would like to know. Well, what are
you going to do with me?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Taul?
Speaker 10 (09:00):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (09:00):
What am I going to do with you? That is
the question. As long as you don't believe as You're
and Flash Garden are dead, I must hold you prisoner
until you change your mind.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I shall never be sure until I see their body.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Fool, I mean you see buddies consume by fire? Oh God,
bring that prisoner down to the tail black again and
to think I am King cow the first I am
King hal Do you understand God as you see Can the.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Gods acknowledged me to be that king?
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I hear them who went by me? No, general, I
leave your majesty, no one.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
I am sure some run brush at me. One of
you must have.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
You're sorry, your majesty, but none of us went by you.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
You know better than to admit it. And let us
get the prisoner in his cell.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Yes, your majesty of.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Getting that tell time, why not? There's nothing left to
fight for.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Ray, Yes, your majesty, thank God.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
At the end of the corridor, see that no one
gets near the prisoner. Will give him time to meditate
and the follies of being a follower of a large car.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Come.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
God, let us away to the Hall of State.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
I must have my kingship proclaimed throughout blue magic land.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
God, Hey the cock, where are you? I can't see
you coming around in front of the cell. I yeah,
around in front of your set. What oh more of
that invisible way that you used on flash?
Speaker 11 (10:39):
Yes, you brush past hall coming down the corridor.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yes, he stepped into my path just as I was
going back where is flash?
Speaker 11 (10:48):
The tell me he and Quinazura went through the iron
door that leads into some pit of peril that haven't
been seen since they.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Are both dead. I have the iron door opened. I
called a flash. There was no answer. Is western night thought?
Poor sales? How can I break the use to her?
Speaker 11 (11:05):
He will take it hard, dot Com Wait until we
are absolutely sure.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
You'll think there maybe a chance flashes ste a life.
Speaker 11 (11:11):
Yes, I can't help feeling that it was a trick
of chance that I received no answer when I call
his name?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
What do you mean? What's going on here?
Speaker 8 (11:17):
What's all that talking?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Why? I'm just talking to myself? God? You don't see anyone,
do you?
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Well?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
If you keep it up, I'll have yourself headed good.
It would be more comfortable. Thanks for the suggestion, and
don't be humorous.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Ain't powers so here?
Speaker 11 (11:30):
I then you are saying, con well, I think is
the flash? Wouldn't still be a that iron door? After
all the time, Gift there were tunnels and corridors, and
that's hit. He's too much of an explorer for that.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
You'll think they have been looking around in some part
of the peach, and so I was unable.
Speaker 11 (11:44):
To hear you yes, that's just what I think, and
I couldn't prove it then, so I surrendered to wait
my time.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I can help you now, as long.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
As the electrical judge holds out, I would be able
to search for Flash.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Oh tell me where is this iron law? I don't
know exactly, but you had been there? Yes, how did
you get to it? I will take him there my
lass up one of the darks. We're getting dusk. I'm
not sure of the path. Ah. If I could only
get out of here, patience, car I can do it.
It can reconnoiter me and report to you. What is
the general direction this let's up?
Speaker 11 (12:16):
Let you north. He went through the north gate toward
the hills. But which hill had the iron door?
Speaker 7 (12:21):
I don't know the Akan I will look for the
iron door and find Flash, or I will find his
dead body.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
While his friends are planning to search for him, Flashes
running down card after carda toward the iron door, followed
by Azora and pursued by the tribe of dwarf Hory.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
This way I'm hurrying it fat that I can't say.
It can't be very last, but it's got endless. Had
just Flash It was me Kevin have to take a
blind and land against the wall.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
This is a great time to think of that, as.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
I've been thinking of it. Each corner we browned and
those little scenes are kilosterous.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
We came off distance. If we get to that iron
door where they.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Honey, Flash put down, that turns.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I see it. The iron daughters are. We've made it.
We've paid Flash the matter wall end.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
No, no, the door is bard from the outside.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh it is. That makes a cover.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I'll beaton. See if anybody told us a semi god, yes,
Hell is your queen and gooda.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
No use. Here come the dwarf and behind me. I've
hold them off as.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Long as I can.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Brandishing the spear of the dead Dwarf King Flash Gordon
places himself between Queen Asaora and the howling mob of
half sized men closing in on them.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
As they stand that the bar iron door.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
There come with dwarves. Azora bend behind me. I hope
them off as long as I can.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
You're a brave man, Flash, but I'm afraid there are
too many for you.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Quite a few less pigments walking around. By the time
they get me.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
A Zora, I'm sure have dead Flash. They seem to
be in a confidence I don't pay.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
A text I don't know I which said hurry up
and come out of the huddle. The suspense is worse
than the actual python.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I'm going to pound on that door again.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Somebody must be out there.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Help ta your queen, Oh God, behave your voice is
or it's no use.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I guess you are right.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I know I'm right this time.
Speaker 9 (14:34):
But I was a fool not to listen to you
Azora in the first place. It's all my fault that
we're in this tough spot. I know apologizing won't save
our lives, but I want you to know I'm sorry.
I've risked your life. I only wanted to capture you
as a hostage in order to conquer Tall and your army.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I believe you flash. While apologies are in order, i'd
like to ask your forgiveness. But the way I've treated you,
it was only because I loved you. Now I remind
you of the saying all's fair in.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Love and war.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
It's only fair to remind you of Orda that I
I love day Laden and I always will.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
I know that, But for once and for all, I
beat her out. What do you mean from the drugs
to attack it. You may love day Larton, but I shall.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Be the one to die.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
In the meanwhile, back at the palace, General Tall brings
a squad of guards to the cell of Khan the Hawkman.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
R Well, Prisoner Khan, what are you to say for yourself?
Just if this cell isn't as comfortable as it might be, Tall,
you are pleased to Yes, one would think you were
a guest of honor instead of a prisoner.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Not from these quarters, they wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Perhaps you can leave that cell, never to return to it.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
By what means you still believe.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Flash Garden and Asura are alive?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I told you I shall never believe Flash Gordon Devin'
I see his body?
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Yes, well, it may not be long before we shall
have that pleasure. Is that so?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yes? That is so?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Prisoner Khan, you forget that I am now king of
a blue magic land?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Are you saying you are? Doesn't make you a king?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
No?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
And listen, God, am I or am I not?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
King?
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Paul King? Tall King? Call the Oh you hear, Prisoner Khan?
Speaker 8 (16:26):
The guards acknowledge me to.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Be that king.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
They may say so to your face, but I'll wait
till they don't behind your back. But what does this
handful of gods do call you? King, Taul? They aren't
the whole army, They aren't the whole kingdom.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
From the whole army. I'll show you, prisoner, I'll show
you who acknowledges me to be king? Here, God down
the call for review, and you open up the cell.
We'll bring the prison now with us. And now, prisoner,
come out of that cell.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Never to return.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
General, that depends, and don't army, General God bring the
prisoner this way all much?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
May I ask where you are taking me?
Speaker 6 (17:09):
You see, you soon find out wherever we're going.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
It will be better on that sell back there, Honestly, Tall,
if you're going to run this sumter, you might begin
by improving your cell block. Well, what's the matter? Can't
you hold a polite conversation?
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Art?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Why we're on the parade ground?
Speaker 8 (17:27):
God give this signal to start the review?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
What's all this for? Toll? Do you want the army
to get a good look at me so they'll recognize
me in case I try to escape? On you are
a brave soldier. Praise from General Tall is praise indeed.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Even though you are a prisoner and face death at
any moment. You are no coward on this review. We
saw you for me, Yet I am having the entire
army passed me.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
For us for two reasons. One is to show you
that the troops will salute me.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I s chem I see that, Tall, you are getting
the royal salute? What is the other reason?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
And you guess?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I never guess, Well, Taul, what is the other reason
for this review?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
To give you an opportunity to become acquainted with your.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Troops with my troops. I don't understand you.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
I am offering you the post of commander in chief
of mi ARMI if I will do what? If you
will swear allegiance to me as King.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Paul, first you can call off your review.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Tall, I'll not swear allegiance to me, most emphatically, no,
very well, God stop the review. Take the Brinton the
back to me, tell and keep him.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
There for the rest of his life.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Meanwhile, in another part of the palace, zark Off, the
scientist returns to day Lardin, who has been awaiting him.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Well, I Amdale, doctor Zarkov.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I was beginning to see they captured you.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
How could they? They cannot see me?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
That's true, but I was afraid that you'd started to
become visible. Right now? What did you find out? How
it smashed? Did you see him?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I did not see him, Dale.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Well, then we have a search for him, Doctor Zarkov.
Let's hurry. You won't be invisible forever.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
I have been searching for Flashdale, That is why I
have been so long in returning.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Two persons are better than one when it comes to searching.
Perhaps you find him with me helping.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I hope.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
So, Dale, where did you look for Flash in a
Zoris quoset?
Speaker 7 (19:31):
Flash is not in the palace, Dale, How do you
know that I found Kann a prisoner in the cell block.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
He told me that Flash captured as you rot it is.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Oh, that's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Wait until you hear the rest tale he founded.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Though you had tragic news, I.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Have sad news. Just how tragic it is? We shall
not know until we find Flesh.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
What do you mean, doctor Arkle.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
It seems that after Flesh captured the witch Queen, he
carried her off through an iron doors somewhere in the hills.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Oh, Khan was only able to give me a general
direction to follow in my search.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
But it has been of no use I have an idea,
Doctor Zarco. Yes, while you're still invisible, let's free Con.
Then he can help us.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Search an excellent idea. We are only a short way
from the shell block.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Come along, Oh, I do hope we find that iron
door on the hill.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
So do I down these stairs there?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Why should Flash? They have hurried which queen into the hill.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
They were being pursued by the Blue magic soldiers, and
Flash made for the first avenue of escaped.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
But the iron door bars from the outside. They cannot
come out of the tunnel.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Then we must hurry and open that door.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Yes, ha, listens, it must be a squad of God's
coming to concil here. Get right the pillar.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
They must not see you, and.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Perhaps no wish you'd accept my offer?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Ton never ily, just to only one man, King, Flash.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Open the cell. I get in there, prisoner.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Forward, fallen marks. All right, come along, Dale, we came
just in time.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Calm Colm, Yes, are you all right?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yes? Perfectly? All right? Where's I am here? Con? I
will open these cells? Are did you find Flash, Gordon? No,
that is why we have come back for you.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Dale.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Thought you might recognize the hell if we got you outside,
I'll do my best come along.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Back in the sunnel of the death Dwarts flash, Gordon
is violently resisting the attack.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Come on you.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Slashing off wonderful.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I hope I don't get tired before they do.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
I'm sure my men will sue me here by pall
not bad to come as the count man.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
This is one time when Paul counterpear too soon.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Come easy. I'm afraid j you counting on that door.
They've probably given us up as dead long ago.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
As long as I have life, I can fight.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
Come and.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Meanwhile, Con and Zak off and they all reached the
outer gates for the hill.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Which one? Well, it's either what why I can see
you Zaka.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Yes, you've become visible, so I have is a good thing.
We got these robes off the guards. Well, it is
do or die from now on. No more reconnoitering until
I build another machine.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Oh, I do hope we can find that iron door.
Which hill is it? Can?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Let me see? It's either that one or that one
over there.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
I suppose you take that one, can Dale, and I
will ride the other one. Sorry, well take this rate,
we still can't. Thanks goodbye, Princess Dale.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
And good luck Thanks Con. Same to you.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Now, let us see here.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Look out, here comes an officer of the guard.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Quick tale, pull up the hood of your robe. Any
news that, Captain, We are just in from the country.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
You only that an invisible shadow has carried the queen
off of the tunnel of the Deathwark.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
The tunnel of the Death Wark?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Oh, where is it? Over there?
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Can we save Flash? Doctor Darko?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
What this dark off?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Why are yeah? That's that was him? Come on, Dale,
there is no time to lose.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Oh, we must say Flash, hurry, hurry.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Luck is with us so far we are heading for
the right hill.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Yes, there's the iron door. I can see it from here,
so it is.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Hey, I must want you.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Nobody has ever come out of that door a life
you had better week outside.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
No, doctors, I'd rather die with Slash than live without him.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Well, here we are, she designed guest to all who
enter here.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Listen, someone's parting on the door.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Now it's not oh, doctors, arcos, we will soon know.
Stand back, Dale, I am going to open the door.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I run all them off.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Yes, kiss me goodbye before we dies.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Oh, Slash, nice as you're come out quickly, Ka, come out.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I will finish off these creatures day he'll die. You
don't know how glad I am.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
To see you so cut with flash Gordon. I hate treats.
You get ne huzzy.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
You don't understand there it was Azua's last wish. We
thought we were dying.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
I wish you both had dail this way to our
heid dot Quinajua, you.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Are our prisoner.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
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Speaker 4 (25:39):
I have one in front of me right now.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
It's a colorful picture of the Santa Maria with sail set,
and below it is an inscription which reads as follows.
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Speaker 4 (25:49):
It's that sale from.
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the same time. Another chapter in the Amazing Interplanetary Adventures
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of Flash Court.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Welcome back. At least this one ends with our hero
and peril. Of course, it might be a case where
Flash's most immediate danger is neither General Tall or the
Blue Magic Man, but Dale Larden. You might think her
reaction was over the top, but remember this is based
on a mid nineteen thirties comic strip series, and yeah,
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that's the sort of thing that would happen on the
last panel of the strip. I did chuckle a bit
when the guard bought CON's explanation that he was talking
to himself.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I mean, you just had Con rescued by someone who
was invisible.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
A few episodes ago, I thought Flash's apology was heartfelt
and reflected that he was a bigger person and can
Admitti made a mistake. What Asura offered was not really
an apology, but did show supervillabline psychology. Normal people who
might use the all'sphear in love and war axiom have
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limits that stop for short of kidnapping someone, putting them
under mind control to get their affection, and turning them
against their friends.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
There are whole YouTube.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Channels dedicated to discussing people like Azora, though the use
of that saying is one of those minor pet peeves
in those stories that are supposed to be sent in
distant planets that are far too earth like. And of
course you have to say in defense of the series,
Flash Gordon is early and this is not for some
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deep into sci fi audience. This is for a popular
audience that reads the funny papers. So you don't want
to make things to aliens. So you have horses on
this world and that aphorism, and you have Zarkov reading
the sign which implies the Blue Magic Men use English.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Or some other language.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Zarkov could read, I mean he's a genius, but I
doubt he learned the Blue Magic language by osmosis. And
of course you even see this in modern Sciphi, and
I'm a little less forgiving of it there because we
have had decades of sci fi and it's like, you
don't expect an alien world to sound exactly like Earth,
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you know, maybe if it's an Earth colony, you have
people running around using Earth aphorisms and doing Earth things
who have no relation to Earth, and it takes me
out of the story. And of course you do have
the cute explanation every now and again, like in Star
Trek six about the Klingons loving Shakespeare and saying that
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Kirk needed to hear Shakespeare in the original Klingon, And
maybe that's what's going on here. The saying all's fair
in love and war originated in the novel Frank Farley
from eighteen fifty. Maybe I just need to read that
in the original Blue Magic Men. For my part, I'd
do my little bits to make this seem a little
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bit more alien for modern audiences. For example, for the
audiogram for the previous episode, we had you know, Azora
steering at strange alien writing with an eerie effect and
I felt I could get away with that because in
that episode only Azora read the sign. But at any rate,
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At Great Detectives dot net. But now, from September twenty
first and September twenty eighth, nineteen thirty five, here are
chapters twenty one and twenty two of the Interplanetary Adventures
of Flash Gordon.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Presenting the amazing interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon. Last week,
Flash Gordon, growing more and more visible, followed Queena Zero
when she was captured by the desk Walks and taken
to hooko their King Well Zarkov rescued Dale Iden from
the Flaming cottage, and they destroyed the invisibility machine to
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prevent the Blue Magic Men from using it. In the meanwhile,
calm the Hawkman and had the soldiers show him the
iron door leading to the Pit of Peril, which Azura
and Flash had disappeared. He ordered them to open the
iron door. Paul arrived and questioned Kahn's authority. Then Tall
declared that as Azua was dead, he was a new ruler.
Con refused to acknowledge him ruler until it was definitely
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proved that Flash was dead. When the iron door was opened,
neither Flash nor a Zura answered. When their names were
called back in the tunnel, King Hoko ordered a Zura
taken to the fiery pit and burned to death.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
These thrilling adventures come to.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You as they are pictured each Sunday in The Comic Weekly,
the world's greatest pictorial supplement of humor and adventure. The
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Speaker 4 (02:48):
Now we continue the story, and a.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Pit of fire with a sewer, we'll roast the magic
of Hoko kill me if you choose, but do not
to you, do not touch you. Why should we not
give you some of your own medicine? Have you not
torture us? Have you not continued to torch for us
by keeping us a knee dog? You are men? I
am only a defenseless woman. Defenseless. Yes, no, your omens.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Are not with you. Listen to me.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
I will bargain with you. Fucking whoever heard of our
prison or bargaining? Listen to our men. She will bargain
with me. Then I will trade with you, trade with me,
one of you to pray?
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Is your freedom?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Freedom? My freedom for yours? What do you mean? You
will return me to my blue magic people says, and unharmed.
I will open the iron door to you and give
you back your freedom. I let you go. You will
let us out of air, treat her own in the daylight,
treat your go and come and we seeve where we
these I will and you won't have your soldier skills off.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
No, no, I promise, Well what you say, will you
return me to my people?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
No? You won't, No, I will not. This is the moment.
I've been waiting for the other for years. I've thought
of getting you in my power.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
Now that I have you, I'm going.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
To put you out away of good mercy O, go
mercy little the text for Bercy get along on a
fiery call.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
As Hoko, king of the Death Dwarfs Forces Queen Asura
had spear point out to the bubbling flames, spitting coloring
of an underground volcano. Flash Gordon awfully visible the sides
on a desperate attempt to save the witch Queen and
backers there save the Dwarfs, screaming rage and terror as
a blonde wild man drops into their midst.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
I'll picture you're a monster.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Help him kill a tire?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yeah, what a to do? Let me down? Let me down?
Speaker 9 (04:49):
You better let you down right into the boiling and burnomish.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
What do we do now? The group between us and
the courage is the undre.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Fash not yet come on my back, round my neck
and the whole time, what are you going to do? Fast?
Speaker 9 (05:04):
I was on the college practice for nothing. I'm going
to use Hoko's peers a vaulting call. Hang on, here
we go.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And with those words, Flash Gordon swings Azora and himself
up and soars over the heads of the enraged warts.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Oh free, Now, if only we can get out that
iron door.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
We can ask these dwarfs, let's run for it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
In the meantime, doctors art Off and Dyo Warden arrive
at the Palace walls.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Here we are at the palace Dale.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yes, doctors, where should I hire our horse?
Speaker 7 (05:47):
I lead him over there until we can't see how
the lands like, Oh, Doctors.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I do hope we are too late.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I hope Flashes rush Flash to use his head.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Dale.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
He will not willingly risk his life for nothing. If
he is dead, it is only because he died fighting
for his life. What's that his son is going down?
It must be the changing of the guard. Right up
to the gate, they will only see you, And when
they get you inside, I will slide off your horse
and follow you wherever they take you, all right to darker.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I don't care what they do to me.
Speaker 10 (06:17):
If only I can say Flash, Oh God.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
They see that I mean me. They let it down
the garden.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Good, right out into the palace yard.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Oh, why the girl, where did you come from?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Where is Flash Gordon? Take me to him at once?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
What?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Take me to Flash Gordon at once?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Did you hear? Comrade?
Speaker 8 (07:00):
He wants to be taking the flash?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
D all right, girl, come this way, you'll get your wish.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
What is the probe me?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I do not know, Dale, and.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
I do not like the way he said that. Wait
until we get around the corner. I will grant this rifle.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Ah, yeah, yeah, give me back my rifle.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Girl, I haven't got, I haven't got. That is enough
out of you. Get down of the horse quickly, Daale.
There is no time to lose.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I'm done. Know what do we do?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Get rid of this animal? First? Yeah, get along.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Now we will tie this guard up and hide him
so we cannot give the alarm too soon.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah. Give you your cloak, Dail, here it is now.
First we will take him. Put it in his mouth.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
He can't speak, now, that's fine.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Now Now tie his arm a little more round there,
that's right, and now his feet hither, yes, one more not? Oh,
dear open that door, Dail, How we will put him
in that classet? Help me with his sweet tails. Now
we will stretch the pelly for fleash cotton.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
At this moment, Paul the Chief Magician is highly elated
that the way things have turned out.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
So you thought you were ruling that blue magic lant that.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Can I can hardly believe that flash Gordon is dead.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Well he is.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
No one can live in that pitter peril, and I think,
as you're a flash Garden take her down there.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
More than likely she intended to push him in and
Planleador after him, but he was too quick for her
and dragged her with him.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
As you're a thought you were smart putting flash Garden
at the head of her armies when your hawkman attacked that.
So she was well, I'm still alive, but where is
your and her ex commander in chief?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
That's what I would like to know. Well, what are
you going to do with me?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Taul?
Speaker 10 (09:00):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (09:00):
What am I going to do with you? That is
the question. As long as you don't believe as You're
and Flash Garden are dead, I must hold you prisoner
until you change your mind.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I shall never be sure until I see their body.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Fool, I mean you see buddies consume by fire? Oh God,
bring that prisoner down to the tail black again and
to think I am King cow the first I am
King hal Do you understand God as you see Can the.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Gods acknowledged me to be that king?
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I hear them who went by me? No, general, I
leave your majesty, no one.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
I am sure some run brush at me. One of
you must have.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
You're sorry, your majesty, but none of us went by you.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
You know better than to admit it. And let us
get the prisoner in his cell.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Yes, your majesty of.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Getting that tell time, why not? There's nothing left to
fight for.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Ray, Yes, your majesty, thank God.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
At the end of the corridor, see that no one
gets near the prisoner. Will give him time to meditate
and the follies of being a follower of a large car.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Come.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
God, let us away to the Hall of State.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
I must have my kingship proclaimed throughout blue magic land.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
God, Hey the cock, where are you? I can't see
you coming around in front of the cell. I yeah,
around in front of your set. What oh more of
that invisible way that you used on flash?
Speaker 11 (10:39):
Yes, you brush past hall coming down the corridor.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yes, he stepped into my path just as I was
going back where is flash?
Speaker 11 (10:48):
The tell me he and Quinazura went through the iron
door that leads into some pit of peril that haven't
been seen since they.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Are both dead. I have the iron door opened. I
called a flash. There was no answer. Is western night thought?
Poor sales? How can I break the use to her?
Speaker 11 (11:05):
He will take it hard, dot Com Wait until we
are absolutely sure.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
You'll think there maybe a chance flashes ste a life.
Speaker 11 (11:11):
Yes, I can't help feeling that it was a trick
of chance that I received no answer when I call
his name?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
What do you mean? What's going on here?
Speaker 8 (11:17):
What's all that talking?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Why? I'm just talking to myself? God? You don't see anyone,
do you?
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Well?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
If you keep it up, I'll have yourself headed good.
It would be more comfortable. Thanks for the suggestion, and
don't be humorous.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Ain't powers so here?
Speaker 11 (11:30):
I then you are saying, con well, I think is
the flash? Wouldn't still be a that iron door? After
all the time, Gift there were tunnels and corridors, and
that's hit. He's too much of an explorer for that.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
You'll think they have been looking around in some part
of the peach, and so I was unable.
Speaker 11 (11:44):
To hear you yes, that's just what I think, and
I couldn't prove it then, so I surrendered to wait
my time.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I can help you now, as long.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
As the electrical judge holds out, I would be able
to search for Flash.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Oh tell me where is this iron law? I don't
know exactly, but you had been there? Yes, how did
you get to it? I will take him there my
lass up one of the darks. We're getting dusk. I'm
not sure of the path. Ah. If I could only
get out of here, patience, car I can do it.
It can reconnoiter me and report to you. What is
the general direction this let's up?
Speaker 11 (12:16):
Let you north. He went through the north gate toward
the hills. But which hill had the iron door?
Speaker 7 (12:21):
I don't know the Akan I will look for the
iron door and find Flash, or I will find his
dead body.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
While his friends are planning to search for him, Flashes
running down card after carda toward the iron door, followed
by Azora and pursued by the tribe of dwarf Hory.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
This way I'm hurrying it fat that I can't say.
It can't be very last, but it's got endless. Had
just Flash It was me Kevin have to take a
blind and land against the wall.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
This is a great time to think of that, as.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
I've been thinking of it. Each corner we browned and
those little scenes are kilosterous.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
We came off distance. If we get to that iron
door where they.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Honey, Flash put down, that turns.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I see it. The iron daughters are. We've made it.
We've paid Flash the matter wall end.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
No, no, the door is bard from the outside.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh it is. That makes a cover.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I'll beaton. See if anybody told us a semi god, yes,
Hell is your queen and gooda.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
No use. Here come the dwarf and behind me. I've
hold them off as.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Long as I can.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Brandishing the spear of the dead Dwarf King Flash Gordon
places himself between Queen Asaora and the howling mob of
half sized men closing in on them.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
As they stand that the bar iron door.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
There come with dwarves. Azora bend behind me. I hope
them off as long as I can.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
You're a brave man, Flash, but I'm afraid there are
too many for you.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Quite a few less pigments walking around. By the time
they get me.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
A Zora, I'm sure have dead Flash. They seem to
be in a confidence I don't pay.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
A text I don't know I which said hurry up
and come out of the huddle. The suspense is worse
than the actual python.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I'm going to pound on that door again.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Somebody must be out there.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Help ta your queen, Oh God, behave your voice is
or it's no use.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I guess you are right.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I know I'm right this time.
Speaker 9 (14:34):
But I was a fool not to listen to you
Azora in the first place. It's all my fault that
we're in this tough spot. I know apologizing won't save
our lives, but I want you to know I'm sorry.
I've risked your life. I only wanted to capture you
as a hostage in order to conquer Tall and your army.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I believe you flash. While apologies are in order, i'd
like to ask your forgiveness. But the way I've treated you,
it was only because I loved you. Now I remind
you of the saying all's fair in.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Love and war.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
It's only fair to remind you of Orda that I
I love day Laden and I always will.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
I know that, But for once and for all, I
beat her out. What do you mean from the drugs
to attack it. You may love day Larton, but I shall.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Be the one to die.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
In the meanwhile, back at the palace, General Tall brings
a squad of guards to the cell of Khan the Hawkman.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
R Well, Prisoner Khan, what are you to say for yourself?
Just if this cell isn't as comfortable as it might be, Tall,
you are pleased to Yes, one would think you were
a guest of honor instead of a prisoner.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Not from these quarters, they wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Perhaps you can leave that cell, never to return to it.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
By what means you still believe.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Flash Garden and Asura are alive?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I told you I shall never believe Flash Gordon Devin'
I see his body?
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Yes, well, it may not be long before we shall
have that pleasure. Is that so?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yes? That is so?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Prisoner Khan, you forget that I am now king of
a blue magic land?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Are you saying you are? Doesn't make you a king?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
No?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
And listen, God, am I or am I not?
Speaker 4 (16:19):
King?
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Paul King? Tall King? Call the Oh you hear, Prisoner Khan?
Speaker 8 (16:26):
The guards acknowledge me to.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Be that king.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
They may say so to your face, but I'll wait
till they don't behind your back. But what does this
handful of gods do call you? King, Taul? They aren't
the whole army, They aren't the whole kingdom.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
From the whole army. I'll show you, prisoner, I'll show
you who acknowledges me to be king? Here, God down
the call for review, and you open up the cell.
We'll bring the prison now with us. And now, prisoner,
come out of that cell.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Never to return.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
General, that depends, and don't army, General God bring the
prisoner this way all much?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
May I ask where you are taking me?
Speaker 6 (17:09):
You see, you soon find out wherever we're going.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
It will be better on that sell back there, Honestly, Tall,
if you're going to run this sumter, you might begin
by improving your cell block. Well, what's the matter? Can't
you hold a polite conversation?
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Art?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Why we're on the parade ground?
Speaker 8 (17:27):
God give this signal to start the review?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
What's all this for? Toll? Do you want the army
to get a good look at me so they'll recognize
me in case I try to escape? On you are
a brave soldier. Praise from General Tall is praise indeed.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Even though you are a prisoner and face death at
any moment. You are no coward on this review. We
saw you for me, Yet I am having the entire
army passed me.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
For us for two reasons. One is to show you
that the troops will salute me.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I s chem I see that, Tall, you are getting
the royal salute? What is the other reason?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
And you guess?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I never guess, Well, Taul, what is the other reason
for this review?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
To give you an opportunity to become acquainted with your.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Troops with my troops. I don't understand you.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
I am offering you the post of commander in chief
of mi ARMI if I will do what? If you
will swear allegiance to me as King.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Paul, first you can call off your review.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Tall, I'll not swear allegiance to me, most emphatically, no,
very well, God stop the review. Take the Brinton the
back to me, tell and keep him.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
There for the rest of his life.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Meanwhile, in another part of the palace, zark Off, the
scientist returns to day Lardin, who has been awaiting him.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Well, I Amdale, doctor Zarkov.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I was beginning to see they captured you.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
How could they? They cannot see me?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
That's true, but I was afraid that you'd started to
become visible. Right now? What did you find out? How
it smashed? Did you see him?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I did not see him, Dale.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Well, then we have a search for him, Doctor Zarkov.
Let's hurry. You won't be invisible forever.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
I have been searching for Flashdale, That is why I
have been so long in returning.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Two persons are better than one when it comes to searching.
Perhaps you find him with me helping.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I hope.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
So, Dale, where did you look for Flash in a
Zoris quoset?
Speaker 7 (19:31):
Flash is not in the palace, Dale, How do you
know that I found Kann a prisoner in the cell block.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
He told me that Flash captured as you rot it is.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Oh, that's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Wait until you hear the rest tale he founded.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Though you had tragic news, I.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Have sad news. Just how tragic it is? We shall
not know until we find Flesh.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
What do you mean, doctor Arkle.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
It seems that after Flesh captured the witch Queen, he
carried her off through an iron doors somewhere in the hills.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Oh, Khan was only able to give me a general
direction to follow in my search.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
But it has been of no use I have an idea,
Doctor Zarco. Yes, while you're still invisible, let's free Con.
Then he can help us.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Search an excellent idea. We are only a short way
from the shell block.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Come along, Oh, I do hope we find that iron
door on the hill.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
So do I down these stairs there?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Why should Flash? They have hurried which queen into the hill.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
They were being pursued by the Blue magic soldiers, and
Flash made for the first avenue of escaped.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
But the iron door bars from the outside. They cannot
come out of the tunnel.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Then we must hurry and open that door.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Yes, ha, listens, it must be a squad of God's
coming to concil here. Get right the pillar.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
They must not see you, and.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Perhaps no wish you'd accept my offer?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Ton never ily, just to only one man, King, Flash.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Open the cell. I get in there, prisoner.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Forward, fallen marks. All right, come along, Dale, we came
just in time.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Calm Colm, Yes, are you all right?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Yes? Perfectly? All right? Where's I am here? Con? I
will open these cells? Are did you find Flash, Gordon? No,
that is why we have come back for you.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Dale.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Thought you might recognize the hell if we got you outside,
I'll do my best come along.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Back in the sunnel of the death Dwarts flash, Gordon
is violently resisting the attack.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Come on you.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Slashing off wonderful.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I hope I don't get tired before they do.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
I'm sure my men will sue me here by pall
not bad to come as the count man.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
This is one time when Paul counterpear too soon.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Come easy. I'm afraid j you counting on that door.
They've probably given us up as dead long ago.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
As long as I have life, I can fight.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
Come and.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Meanwhile, Con and Zak off and they all reached the
outer gates for the hill.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Which one? Well, it's either what why I can see
you Zaka.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Yes, you've become visible, so I have is a good thing.
We got these robes off the guards. Well, it is
do or die from now on. No more reconnoitering until
I build another machine.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Oh, I do hope we can find that iron door.
Which hill is it? Can?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Let me see? It's either that one or that one
over there.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
I suppose you take that one, can Dale, and I
will ride the other one. Sorry, well take this rate,
we still can't. Thanks goodbye, Princess Dale.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
And good luck Thanks Con. Same to you.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Now, let us see here.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Look out, here comes an officer of the guard.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Quick tale, pull up the hood of your robe. Any
news that, Captain, We are just in from the country.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
You only that an invisible shadow has carried the queen
off of the tunnel of the Deathwark.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
The tunnel of the Death Wark?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Oh, where is it? Over there?
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Can we save Flash? Doctor Darko?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:47):
What this dark off?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Why are yeah? That's that was him? Come on, Dale,
there is no time to lose.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Oh, we must say Flash, hurry, hurry.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Luck is with us so far we are heading for
the right hill.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Yes, there's the iron door. I can see it from here,
so it is.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Hey, I must want you.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Nobody has ever come out of that door a life
you had better week outside.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
No, doctors, I'd rather die with Slash than live without him.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Well, here we are, she designed guest to all who
enter here.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Listen, someone's parting on the door.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Now it's not oh, doctors, arcos, we will soon know.
Stand back, Dale, I am going to open the door.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I run all them off.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Yes, kiss me goodbye before we dies.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Oh, Slash, nice as you're come out quickly, Ka, come out.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I will finish off these creatures day he'll die. You
don't know how glad I am.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
To see you so cut with flash Gordon. I hate treats.
You get ne huzzy.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
You don't understand there it was Azua's last wish. We
thought we were dying.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
I wish you both had dail this way to our
heid dot Quinajua, you.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Are our prisoner.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Did you get your colored poster stamps in the Comic
Weekly last Sunday? The Comic Weekly, as you know, is
the picture section of the Hearst Sunday newspapers, and each
week it contains a half page of wonderful full color
poster stamps of animals, ships, American history, famous persons, flags,
and many other interesting subjects. Each poster stamp is two
and one half inches long by one and three quarter
(25:35):
inches wide, six times as large as a regular three
cent stamp.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
I have one in front of me right now.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
It's a colorful picture of the Santa Maria with sail set,
and below it is an inscription which reads as follows.
Santa Maria Columbus is a flagship.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
It's that sale from.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Spain with the Penta and the Nina on August third,
fourteen ninety two and landed on the Bahama Islands on
October twelfth, fourteen ninety two.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Every stamp is different.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
All you have to do to become a member of
the new Poster Stamp Collectors Club is cut out these
poster stamps each week and taste them carefully in your album.
The official album of the Poster Stamp Collectors Club should
now be available at all leading stores, so be sure
and get your poster stamps in the Comic Weekly section
of your Hearst newspaper next Sunday and next week at
the same time. Another chapter in the Amazing Interplanetary Adventures
(26:22):
of Flash Court.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Welcome back. At least this one ends with our hero
and peril. Of course, it might be a case where
Flash's most immediate danger is neither General Tall or the
Blue Magic Man, but Dale Larden. You might think her
reaction was over the top, but remember this is based
on a mid nineteen thirties comic strip series, and yeah,
(27:41):
that's the sort of thing that would happen on the
last panel of the strip. I did chuckle a bit
when the guard bought CON's explanation that he was talking
to himself.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I mean, you just had Con rescued by someone who
was invisible.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
A few episodes ago, I thought Flash's apology was heartfelt
and reflected that he was a bigger person and can
Admitti made a mistake. What Asura offered was not really
an apology, but did show supervillabline psychology. Normal people who
might use the all'sphear in love and war axiom have
(28:18):
limits that stop for short of kidnapping someone, putting them
under mind control to get their affection, and turning them
against their friends.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
There are whole YouTube.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Channels dedicated to discussing people like Azora, though the use
of that saying is one of those minor pet peeves
in those stories that are supposed to be sent in
distant planets that are far too earth like. And of
course you have to say in defense of the series,
Flash Gordon is early and this is not for some
(28:52):
deep into sci fi audience. This is for a popular
audience that reads the funny papers. So you don't want
to make things to aliens. So you have horses on
this world and that aphorism, and you have Zarkov reading
the sign which implies the Blue Magic Men use English.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Or some other language.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Zarkov could read, I mean he's a genius, but I
doubt he learned the Blue Magic language by osmosis. And
of course you even see this in modern Sciphi, and
I'm a little less forgiving of it there because we
have had decades of sci fi and it's like, you
don't expect an alien world to sound exactly like Earth,
(29:38):
you know, maybe if it's an Earth colony, you have
people running around using Earth aphorisms and doing Earth things
who have no relation to Earth, and it takes me
out of the story. And of course you do have
the cute explanation every now and again, like in Star
Trek six about the Klingons loving Shakespeare and saying that
(29:59):
Kirk needed to hear Shakespeare in the original Klingon, And
maybe that's what's going on here. The saying all's fair
in love and war originated in the novel Frank Farley
from eighteen fifty. Maybe I just need to read that
in the original Blue Magic Men. For my part, I'd
do my little bits to make this seem a little
(30:20):
bit more alien for modern audiences. For example, for the
audiogram for the previous episode, we had you know, Azora
steering at strange alien writing with an eerie effect and
I felt I could get away with that because in
that episode only Azora read the sign. But at any rate,
(30:42):
it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
and I want to go ahead and thank Ryan, Patreon
supporter since May of twenty twenty three, currently supporting the
podcast at the first mate level of seven dollars and
fourteen cents or more per month. Thank you so much
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