

"You should do the same." Aura realizes Barin is right, and agrees to help them. "I've won the friendship of the Earth people by helping them," he explains. When Aura endangers Dale in the catacombs by setting a Tigron on her, Barin scolds Aura. When he's beaten, he tells Flash that he was forced to fight, and that he was hoping to be killed - he loves Princess Aura, and has no hope of winning her. Flash has to fight for his freedom in a "Tournament of Death", and battles Barin, cloaked as "the Masked Swordsman". (" Chapter 105: The Destroying Ray")īarin, Flash, Zarkov and Thun are put to work in the Atom Furnaces, and are freed when Zarkov saves the Sky City. Barin asks Zarkov to help him overthrow Ming, and they rush to rescue Flash and Dale from the Hawk Men. Ming killed Barin's father when Barin was a child.
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Zarkov in the serial and introduces himself, explaining that he should be the rightful ruler of Mongo. Shortly after, they meet Prince Barin for the first time, who promptly pits Flash against another "white earthling" whose face is hooded and concealed. After being freed they are lowered down a cliff to a secret door where Tree People, Barin's race, are waiting for them. In the 1934 radio serial Prince Barin is first encountered after Princess Aura and Flash Gordon, escaping the Shark Men, become entangled with a tentacular plant. Ming plans to take his grandson away from Barin and Aura, and raise him as a worthy successor to the throne. (" The Tournaments of Mongo")Īura and Barin have a son, Prince Alan.


Barin takes Aura as his beloved, and Ming rewards him with a kingdom of his own, the forest kingdom of Arboria.

The crowd immediately jumps to his defense, demanding that Ming declare both Barin and Flash the winners of the tournament. At the last moment, as he struggles with Flash over a pool of flaming liquid oxygen, Flash kicks off his mask, revealing him as the exiled prince. Regretting his decision but determined to go on, he fights through to the final round. However, he soon realizes that in order to win, he has to battle his best friend, Flash, to the death. He enters as "the Masked Champion", and advances in the contest. He gallantly declares that he saved her because "you are a woman and beautiful - because I can no longer deny the fact that I love you!" (" The Tournaments of Mongo")īarin decides to participate in the tournament, to win the right to claim Aura as his bride. Before the tournament begins, Barin sees Princess Aura fall into the path of King Jugrid's lions, and he leaps to her rescue. (" The Monsters of Mongo")įlash then participates in a "Tournament of Death", to fight for a kingdom and the right to marry Dale Arden. Hans Zarkov, and they work together to overthrow Ming.īarin is sentenced to work in the Atom Furnaces of the Sky City with Flash, Zarkov and Prince Thun, and is freed with the rest when Zarkov saves the Sky City from falling. (" The Monsters of Mongo") Barin befriends Flash Gordon and Dr. When Prince Barin is introduced in the comic strip, he is the leader of a group of rebels, who are hiding in caves and conspiring against Ming. 6 Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All.
