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Although this is still under copyright, inclusion here qualifies for Fair Use under US Copyright law because:

It is used for a non-commercial and hopefully educational purpose.
It is representative of the work:

It shows the two main characters, Flash and Dale, along with the primary villain, Ming the Merciless.

It shows the characters in a classic situation: Ming forcing Dale to marry him and Flash trying to rescue Dale.

It also shows Flash (and Thun) evading one danger only to be thrust in to another, a common theme throughout the run.

It is only a small part of the overall work, i.e. an excerpt from a single day's installment.
It should not affect the commercial viability of the copyright (IMHO it should enhance it).

[edit] Licensing

This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Flash Gordon" :

To illustrate the subject in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([1]),

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

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current	23:50, 28 January 2006	1,536×627 (444 KB)	BayBoy (Talk \| contribs)	(Excerpted from March 4, 1934 Flash Gordon strip. {{fairusein\|Flash Gordon}})