Buster Crabbe's chief claim to fame, aside from his Olympic gold medal, rests in the trio of movie serials in which he played the popular science-fiction hero Flash Gordon. Crabbe was the only actor to play the roles of Tarzan (in one movie), Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, the top three pulp action heroes of the 1930s. Crabbe carved out a career that would also include more than 100 B-movies and programme Westerns, a television adventure series, and a sucessful physical fitness enterprise. All of this and more is detailed in this book.