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Originally Posted by deecee4

Where I was at it ran seemingly forever in either the NY daily news or staten island advance. I actually never read it much.
Flash...not sure how I knew about him. Dont remember the filmation cartoon and when I saw the movie on hbo in the mid 80s, I knew it was an adaption. I would only guess that I saw the character mentioned in something Star Wars-related...like a tv program or scholastic book about Star Wars. But yeah, I seemed to be aware of him early on...even knew about the Flesh Gordon parody as a kid lol.

Aye, my first experience of Flash Gordon was the Defenders of the Earth cartoon in the 80s and that also had Phantom in it. Then the 1980 movie with it's Queen soundtrack. Then re-runs on TV of the Buster Crabbe serials from the 30s. And I had computer games of my ZX Spectrum of Defenders of the Earth and an unrelated Flash Gordon one. lol There was also the Billy Zane Phantom movie and I remember renting a Phantom game on my Sega that was based on a cartoon in the 90s. lol

And aye I knew of the Flesh Gordon too. It was often joked about in the school playground for some reason like it was some big naughty thing we weren't supposed to know about but did. lol