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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 15, 2024 0:25:18 GMT -5
From my own personal collection-- (pardon the bag & board)--
Space Western #43, April, 1953-- Capitol Publications (Charlton)
Cover art by Stan Campbell
Was this a tribute to some earlier cover or was there something later that was a tribute to this? It looks very familiar but I don't think I've seen this specific comic before now.
It bears a striking similarity to "The Spirit Section" Sunday paper insert splash page from August 3, 1952-- about 8 months prior. That one was done by Wally Wood. |
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Post by k7p5v on Jun 15, 2024 4:54:58 GMT -5
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Post by MWGallaher on Jun 15, 2024 5:32:02 GMT -5
SPACE ADVENTURES #43, Charlton, December 1961 Art by Vince Alascia  As a new retiree from NASA, I felt obligated to participate in this round with this early comic book tribute to America's first man in space, NASA's Alan Shepard. As the cover nicely illustrates, Shepard's flight followed a ballistic trajectory: it was launched into the heavens to reach into space and then slowed to allow gravity to pull him and his Mercury capsule right back to its splash-down (in fact, this cover is taken directly from the splash page of the interior non-fiction story, "A-Okay"!). |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 15, 2024 5:43:17 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 15, 2024 19:45:02 GMT -5
Space War #12, August 1961. Cover by Rocco Mastroserio.  |
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Post by tonebone on Jun 17, 2024 8:37:05 GMT -5
Interesting... err... tailoring on the lady's spacesuit. |
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Post by kirby101 on Jun 17, 2024 8:42:52 GMT -5
Interesting... err... tailoring on the lady's spacesuit. Spare air tanks? And the fabric on SD is so thin, you can see his muscle definition. |
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Post by jester on Jun 17, 2024 10:01:19 GMT -5
Weird Fantasy #19, cover by Joe Orlando 
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 17, 2024 10:01:34 GMT -5
Interesting... err... tailoring on the lady's spacesuit. I never thought of that, maybe I was distracted.  |
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Post by james on Jun 17, 2024 16:10:31 GMT -5
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Post by foxley on Jun 17, 2024 16:27:04 GMT -5
Sorry james, but that's not a comic book or collected volume. It's a pulp magazine.  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 17, 2024 20:48:16 GMT -5
Interesting... err... tailoring on the lady's spacesuit. Spare air tanks? And the fabric on SD is so thin, you can see his muscle definition. Flotation device for splashdown. |
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Post by kirby101 on Jun 17, 2024 21:05:56 GMT -5
Spare air tanks? And the fabric on SD is so thin, you can see his muscle definition. Flotation device for splashdown. Thought they looked familiar  |
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Post by foxley on Jun 18, 2024 3:21:47 GMT -5
Rags
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jun 18, 2024 4:14:37 GMT -5
codystarbuck
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