Editing Flash Gordon (section)

==Novels==
===''[[Big Little Books]]''===
The ''Flash Gordon'' strip was adapted for the ''[[Big Little Book series|Big Little Books]]'' series by the [[Whitman Publishing Company]] in 1934; the books follow the strip stories very closely and were designed with a captioned illustration opposite each page of text. The series ran for 14 installments from 1934 until 1948. The books were:
*"Flash Gordon on the Planet Mongo" (1934) 
*"Flash Gordon and the Monsters of Mongo" (1935) 
*"Flash Gordon and the Tournaments of Mongo" (1935)
*"Flash Gordon and the Witch Queen of Mongo" (1936)
*"Flash Gordon vs. the Emperor of Mongo" (1936)
*"Flash Gordon in the Water World of Mongo"	(1937)
*"Flash Gordon in the Forest Kingdom of Mongo" (1938) 
*"Flash Gordon and the Perils of Mongo" (1940) 
*"Flash Gordon and the Tyrant of Mongo" (1941)
*"Flash Gordon and the Ice World of Mongo"	(1942) 
*"Flash Gordon and the Ape Men of Mor"	(1942)
*"Flash Gordon and the Power Men of Mongo" (1943)
*"Flash Gordon and the Red Sword Invaders" (1945)
*"Flash Gordon in the Jungles of Mongo" (1947)
*"Flash Gordon and the Fiery Desert of Mongo" (1948)

===''Flash Gordon in the Caverns of Mongo'' (1936)===
The first novel based on the strip, ''Flash Gordon in the Caverns of Mongo'', was published in 1936 by [[Grosset & Dunlap]]. The credited author was Alex Raymond, but Doug Murray claims the novel "was almost certainly ghost-written".<ref name="dm2" /> Like the pulp magazine of the same year, it failed to launch a series.

===Avon Books===
In 1973, Avon Books launched a six-book series of adult-oriented Flash Gordon novels: ''The Lion Men of Mongo'', ''The Plague of Sound'', ''The Space Circus'', ''The Time Trap of Ming XIII'', ''The Witch Queen of Mongo'' and ''The War of the Cybernauts''.<ref name="sfafsas">Tim Cottrill, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Charles Waugh ''Science Fiction and Fantasy Series and Sequels''. Garland, 1986. {{ISBN|0824086716}} (p.177)</ref> Although the books were credited to Alex Raymond, the first three were written by SF writer [[Ron Goulart]] (under the [[Pen name|house name]] "Con Steffanson") and the other three novels were by [[Bruce Cassiday]] (the first under the "Steffanson" name, and the latter two under the pseudonym "Carson Bingham").<ref name="sfafsas" />

===1980 film novelization===
A [[novelization]] of [[Flash Gordon (film)|the 1980 film]] was written by [[Arthur Byron Cover]], and published in the United States by Jove Publications and in the United Kingdom by New English Library.

===Tempo Books===
In 1980, Tempo Books released a series by [[David Hagberg]]: ''Massacre in the 22nd Century'', ''War of the Citadels'', ''Crisis on Citadel II'', ''Forces from the Federation'', ''Citadels under Attack'' and ''Citadels on Earth''. Except for the names of the hero and his co-stars of [[Dale Arden]] and Dr. [[Hans Zarkov]], this series had little to do with any other version of Flash Gordon.