Flash Gordon adj.

Meanwhile, Mr. Crabbe will go ahead with his adventure films—‘Red Barry,‘ ‘Buck Rogers’ and ‘Flash Gordon’ stuff the kiddies like so much.

When the broadcast one of his wars of the future over the radio last Sunday night and had heat rays and meteorites and all that Flash Gordon stuff busting and killing people it really got folks scared.

Why don’t you put to use Scientific Illustrations in or out of stories in the mag…. Cut out the Tarzan, monsters and Flash Gordon illustrations. Please use ideas at least a little more scientific.

I’d always heard that the guys who read this Flash Gordon stuff, were nuts, so I didn’t say nothin’.

The genuine astronautical interest, incidental suspense and thoroughly realistic effects achieved by the team…[pulled] off what was really an extremely difficult feat—to present the subject of space-travel plausibly, accurately and entertainingly to an audience more used to regarding it as ‘Flash Gordon’ stuff.

FF: There were some pretty strange characters in the Star Trek series. An alligator man, a subterranean stone creature, all sorts of Flash Gordon stuff. Wise: Yeah, they were kind of Flash Gordon. We’re being a little more reserved.