Flash Gordon "Signal Pistol" Ray Gun Green with Red Trim (Louis Marx & Co., 1935)....

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Flash Gordon "Signal Pistol" Ray Gun Green with Red Trim (Louis Marx & Co., 1935). Cast in gleaming pressed steel just a year after Alex Raymond's comic-strip debut, this early Signal Pistol captures the dawn of space-opera toys in striking light green enamel, highlighted by fiery red accents on the muzzle and body fin. A squeeze of the chrome trigger still drives the internal striker with a metallic zap, ready to defend Mongo from Ming's legions with Depression-era firepower. Eighty-plus years of backyard adventures have left an honest, time-earned ageing: wide swaths of paint wear reveal bare metal beneath the green finish, scattered dings speckle the barrel and grip, and the chrome crest bears gentle denting and period tarnish-yet the body decal remains crisp and legible.
As one of the very first licensed Flash Gordon toys-and among the earliest ray guns ever sold-this color-variant Signal Pistol stands out for collectors who crave prewar tin artistry and Golden-Age comic provenance. Melding high-polish deco styling with pioneering play-value, it invites you to holster a genuine 1930s artifact that helped launch generations of sci-fi imagination.

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