The Shark Men live in an undersea kingdom on Mongo; they're ruled by King Kala.
They are a race of green-skinned humanoid aliens with pointy ears, slightly pointed heads, and some fish-like features.
Adaptions[]
In the 1936 Flash Gordon serial, the Shark Men capture Flash Gordon and Dale Arden on the orders of Ming the Merciless. They deliver Flash and Dale to King Kala.The main Shark Man was played by House Peters, Jr.
In the 1979 animated tv series The New Adventures of Flash Gordon they are called "Gill-men" instead.
In the 1996 Flash Gordon animated series the "Shark-troopers" are mutants who serve Ming under their Queen Kayla.
2013 graphic novels Flash Gordon: Zeitgeist by Eric Trautmann and Merciless: The Rise of Ming by Scott Beatty depict the Shark Men closely to the original Sunday strips as a race of pointy-eared, sharp-toothed humanoid aliens with some fish-like features, and smooth green or blue-green skin and pointy heads, some even displaying headfins.
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