Title: Not worth your while.
Product review: This book was the start of a series based on the old Flash Gordon science fiction stories. None of these books had authors listed, each of them being written by a team of writers organized by the publisher (I later discovered that this first volume was written by David Hagberg, who later wrote a number of popular spy novels). I thought that they would start off by retelling the original story of Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, Dr. Zarkov, and Ming the Merciless. Unfortunately, they did not. I found the stories very boring. In fact, this first volume was terrible. The author has no feeling for either true science fiction, space opera, or camp science fiction.
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