Wednesday, December 12, 2012

More FLASH GORDON (1980) International Posters

Man, there was a lot of promotional and advertising art created to sell Dino de Laurentis' Flash Gordon movie in the various world markets. The artwork at top is particularly interesting to me because it's an original painting that doesn't use any of the familiar art elements seen on most of the other International posters, but does include the comic strip's Prince Thun of the Lion Men (there is a Thun in the movie - briefly - but he doesn't have a tail) and other characters and creatures that don't appear in the movie at all (including what appears to be the witch queen, Azura).

I wish I had a better scan of the second poster - the rope-swinging Flash is pretty dynamic.

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