King Features then turned to Alex Raymond, one of their staff artists, to create the story. However, the syndicate was unable to reach an agreement with Burroughs. At first, King Features tried to purchase the rights to the John Carter of Mars stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Buck Rogers comic strip had been commercially very successful, spawning novelizations and children's toys, and King Features Syndicate decided to create their own science fiction comic strip to compete with it. The first Flash Gordon comic strip (1934). 17.3 The New Adventures of Flash Gordon (1979).17.1.3 Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940).13.2 Flash Gordon in the Caverns of Mongo (1936).
