Kings Quest
Kings Quest is a comic-book mini-series from Dynamite Entertainment featuring together "The Phantom", "Flash Gordon", "Mandrake the Magician", Prince Valiant and Jungle Jim, all characters selected in the 100th anniversary of the King Feature Syndicate as the "homemade" action heroes team of the Syndicate comics.
It follows the similar 2013's "Kings Watch" and 2015 "King: Mandrake the Magician" miniseries published by Dynamite Entertainment that already brought the characters together.
- The stories are written by Ben Acker & Heath Corson and drawn by Dan McDaid.
- Various variant covers are released for each issue.
Issue overview
Regular covers
Variant covers
Black & white variant covers
Plot Summary
- Part 1 (= KINGS QUEST #1) :
After a crash of their spaceship, shot down by the forces of Ming the Merciless, the heroes team - composed by Flash Gordon, "Mandrake the Magician", "The Phantom" (accompanied by The Phantom Junior) plus Prince Valiant - is attacked by giant monsters on the planet "Arboria". After having met a man called James Bradley, aka Jungle Jim, they are fighting the Ming air fleet, being finally helped by the native monsters. Meanwhile, Ming has captured Dale Arden, the Flash Gordon's bride, and claims that she has henceforth become "his Empress Dale Arden of Earth".
