The origin of one of science fiction's seminal supervillains, and the
arch nemesis of Flash Gordon, is explored in this softcover collection
of Dynamite Entertainment's critically acclaimed Merciless: The Rise
of Ming four-issue mini-series!
Set decades before the would-be interplanetary conqueror turned his
attentions upon an unwitting Earth, Merciless chronicles the
formative years of Prince Ming, heir to all he surveys and the
fabulous peoples of distant Mongo, a planet politically divided by its
divergent species and as physically fractured as the ring of shattered
moons orbiting it. Disillusioned by his father's rule and anxious to
begin his own dynasty, Ming engineers events to seat himself upon the
imperial throne of Mongo, sooner rather than later. Armed with
mindboggling weapons of planetary destruction, Ming the Merciless
won't settle for anything less than dominion over his world... and
every galaxy in the known universe!