Saturday, August 14, 2010

D2-029 The Far Side of the Moon (27-Jan-1958 to 15-Mar-1958); D2-030 Behind the Flying Saucers (17-Mar-1958 to 3-May-1958) & D2-031 Movie-Making on Pluto (5-May-1958 to 21-Jun-1958)

Today 64th Independence Day of India.

Today enjoy 3 Flash Gordon Daily Strips.

Art: Dan Barry
Summary: Finally getting a chance to leave Mongo as the planet’s orbit takes it near Earth (see D2028 The Time Pendulum), Flash, Zarkov and Dale accept an invitation to take part in an Earth expedition to explore the hidden side of the moon.

Wasting no time in joining the expedition, the trio soon touch down on the lunar surface, but shortly thereafter Dale sees something moving in the darkness and decides to follow a trail that ends in an improbable lunar lake...


Summary: Finishing his report about the moon entity (see D2029 The Far Side of the Moon), Flash is transferred to the giant ‘Project SS’, a science satellite orbiting Earth where all nations’ data about flying saucers are being pooled and fed to a giant electronic brain in an effort to determine their origin.

As dignitaries from all countries assemble for the grand ceremony marking the disclosure of the data, a cloaked space vessel in the vicinity sends out a saboteur to infiltrate the gathering and blow the station to pieces before the truth is revealed...



Summary: Joining Zarkov at the New York Spaceport, Flash is invited to join a scientific expedition to Pluto, on condition that the film company who has financed the entire trip is allowed to accompany the crew and shoot a film on the frozen planet.

Touching down on Pluto with the film crew and stars in tow, Flash and his team struggle to get the upper hand, but everybody’s attention is momentarily turned when strange creatures start emerging from the frozen drifts...


Collect it and many more D2 - Here

(Source of summary: www.ipcomics.net)
These are from Emile's e-collection. All credits go to her & "Allen Lane" who scanned and first shared at net.

19 comments:

  1. You are wonderful!
    Happy independance day and thank you very much. I love Dan Barry, he's a great artist. When I was a child I read "Guy L'éclair" in "Le journal de Mickey". Tympani, space circus, Kag the conqueror, Rob and Bey's wonders of Mongo, Mezmo.. are for ever, deep in my mind like a talisman..


    "D2-029 The Far Side of the Moon" is not complete. 16 strips are missing I think.

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  2. प्रभात भाई , मुझे यह तनिक भी आभास नहीं था की आप देशभक्ति से सम्बंधित पोस्ट में इतने दक्ष हो , आपकी लेखनी क्या उभर कर आती है इन देशभक्ति से लिपटी हुई पोस्ट में ! इतिहास की पूर्ण जानकारी , एक सच्चे देशभक्त की तरह लिखना , क्या पुरातन इतिहासिक सामग्री का भंडार , यह सब देख कर मेरा शब्दकोश समाप्ति की और अग्रसर है, बस चलते चलते इतना कहना चाहूँगा की
    "भारत माता के इस सपूत और सच्चे देशभगत प्रभात को इस 'आजाद प्रेत' का प्रणाम !

    विशाल

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  3. Thanks for the strips. Happy Independence day to all Indians who visit the blog.

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  4. thanks prabhat.keep going.i m waiting for more phantom frews.
    :Dr. Arya

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  5. please do something about these spam comments. I believe google has announced some way to deal with them.

    Thanks for the Flash strips.

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  6. @alesius
    By mistake I deleted all data from external disk along with Flash Gordon strips last week. (:
    Soon I'll recover and check. Thanks to Emile we are getting these. It's possible there were some strips missing. If not I'll replace and give info in current dated post.

    In childhood Dan's Flash Gordon (Indrajal Comics) attracted me towards this hero. Hoping some day could find Sunday strips also.

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  7. @AZAD
    शुक्रिया| इसका श्रेय दादी, माताश्री और पिता जी को जाता है जिनसे इतिहास, आध्यात्मिकता और देशभक्ति की कहानियाँ बचपन से सुनता आया हूँ| एक मजेदार बात बताऊँ, मेरी शिक्षा विज्ञान और वाणिज्य से संबंधित थी| लेकिन सिर्फ स्नातक स्तर की पढ़ाई के बाद इतिहास की तरफ ध्यान आकर्षित हुआ|

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  8. @Raka
    Whenever it'll be possible to share a Frew, I'll. We are searching 2nd part of one Frew. If find, min 2 more will be posted. :)

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  9. @The Phantom Head (TPH)
    Sorry I was busy! Just started comment moderation for this and History blog where spam were coming.

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  10. Hi Prabhat,
    Thank you for taking the trouble to upload so many comics!
    Would you, by any chance, have the Flash Gordon comic strip, S100 - "The Greatest Art Theft" (6/20/65 to 10/10/65)? I have been searching for this particular strip since a long, long time.
    I had read a few panels of this in my childhood (I believe it was serialized in some magazine, perhaps the Illustrated Weekly) and have been intrigued to read the rest of it, ever since.

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  11. @The Ghost Who Browses Sadly I don't have any Sunday Daily Strip. If there would be any chance, it would be posted at priority basis especially for you.

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  12. Thanks Prabhat for this collection.
    It is getting more and more interesting.
    Please have a look to the Flash story D 029----it has "header broken" problem and panel no. 14 is unable to get loaded.
    BTW Flash D 016 (posted earlier)---panel no. 9 etc. also has the same problem.

    Please keep on posting Flash. It will be great if you could post Sundays as well.
    Praveen

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  13. Prabhat, where can I find your wonderful post on Independence day, which Azad has mentioned ?
    Praveen

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  14. @praveen My files are also broken, I'll try to search and replacing link.

    I don't have Sunday strips at present, but searching.

    About AZAD, it's posted at http://hmindia.blogspot.com/. This blog is specially for history related topics.

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  15. hey... you guys have known about this problem for a while, i see...
    i've been coming back to see if it wasn't a question of connectivity/corruption in transit... a couple of my problems actually were. but so far: "Flash_Gordon_D2-029-13" and "Flash_Gordon_D2-037-13"
    are the only files i cannot get to extract cleanly. unlucky 13 for Flash, huh? ;)
    i'm on a mac... if that makes any difference to y'all (and with .rar, you should know that it does) well, when:
    1. using stuffit deluxe, it'll decompress 00-12 and then quit. with
    2. "unrarX v2.2" it expands everything but page 13. then with
    3. stuffit archive manager, i'd expand just #13 into its own folder...
    that would give me 1/2 images.
    if someone can find those two pages and rescan... or maybe a win expander that loves .rar... we can get'em fixed.
    otherwise, i just read them like cliff-hangers or bad jump-cuts, for which this era of filmmaking is infamous.
    happy new year form the states, & thanks for all the other goodies & goodness!

    best,
    odd!z

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  16. @oddiz27 Thanks for attracting attention! Links of D-2: 29 & 37 are replaced. New files contains missing 13th page.

    By the way 13th is one of the Lucky number for me. :)

    Keep visiting. Not only D2-113 to 152 are coming, 4 missing strips (D2 - 68, 69,71,73) will be posted. A collector has provided new scans. There are few panels missing. But we have Spanish strips. Those will be posted after translation with help of some more HARDCORE fans.

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