I found out these Roger LeLoup comics are available in English under the title Yoko Tsuno and have ordered the first six from a Canadian seller. This is the kind of thing I would love to have created myself, hope it reaches real kids and sparks their imaginations and interest in learning about the sciences! Most of them just star Yoko and another character unlike the two above (which fit in with the current series as later numbers).

Tarkintino reminded me some other comic adaptions of classics that had really nice covers:

Allow me to indulge in a bit of nostalgia.

Spring 1973 - I was in high school and had a part-time job as a busboy that paid $2 an hour. With three newsstands in walking distance of school and money in my pocket, I started expanding my purchases beyond my Marvel Zombie habits. I bought DC and Charlton comics, Warren and Skywald horror magazines, and the science fiction digest magazines. I kept this up for about a year before I concluded that I couldn't keep up with it all and stopped buying a few things. First, I dropped the DC horror anthologies edited by Murray Boltinoff, and then I dropped all the SF mags except for Amazing Science Fiction and Fantastic Stories. They were published by the same company and both edited by Ted White, and I liked his editorials and his taste in fiction and art. I kept buying those two until I went cold turkey on fannish things in mid-1978.

So thanks to Phil Stevenson-Payne's "Galactic Central" website, here's a look at what I was buying and reading then.

Apparently I started slowly; this is the only one I have that's dated February 1973:



In March I found one more:




And one more in April:





And again in May:






And once more in June:







To Be Continued!

Love the covers to old SF magazines/digests - and to old SF/fantasy paperbacks from the '50s through the '80s, but that's another story altogether. This Amazing SF cover in particular caught my eye, as I really love the late '60s/early '70s pop art poster style - very eye-catching.