- Complete Monster: See here.
- Dueling Works: With Buck Rogers, the other definitive science fiction comic of the Thirties.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: In an arc starting in June 1940, Flash is rescuing Dale from Ming's palace, disguised as a "power man". His disguise consists of a skintight red bodysuit with a cowl, yellow belt, gloves and boots, and a lightning bolt on the ches— HEY WAIT A MINUTE!
- Mainstream Obscurity: While popular and influential in its heyday, the original comics today are best known through Pop-Cultural Osmosis, most prominently through the 1980 film.
- Once Original, Now Common: Flash Gordon is one of the most influential works on the genre of science fiction, helping to invent many of its most enduring tropes. Over the next century, many, many other works have taken those tropes and run wild with them, leaving Flash looking quaint.
- Reality Subtext: As World War II loomed on the horizon, strips featuring Ming's concentration camps appeared. Eventually, they dropped the subtext altogether and just had the heroes come home to fight Hitler.
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