Al Williamson by Berni Wrightson

Young Berni starts this off with an amaz'n portrait of one of his idols, and he has Al dressed like his favorite subject at the drawing board---Flash Gordon, so I thought this would be an appropo intro to everything Flash Gordon Williamson did for Union Carbide(???)  The plastics mogul dinnae want the Mongo mogul, apparently, but without Ming there's no zing