Space Heroine Saturdays AURORA OF JUPITER "Man Who Wanted a World!"

There are Space Heroines as well as Space Heroes...

...so we present our first Space Heroine's one and (sadly) only appearance in the back of the obscure PL Publishing one-shot Captain Rocket Comics #1 (1951)!

Ironically, future sci-fi/fantasy novelist Harry Harrison both scripted and rendered this tale, which might have inspired later characters such as Barbarella!
The art combines several different styles on different pages so it could've been a rush job with a group effort to meet the deadline, which matches Harrison's recollections that he had some assistance on a couple of stories.
PL Publishing was an American publisher who printed and distributed their books in Canada.

As a result, very few copies of any of their eight short-lived titles ever reached fans in the US!

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Space Hero Saturdays SPACE FALCON "Pirates of the Stratosphere"

If you're a Golden Age or sci-fi comics fan, or just following Space Hero Saturdays, you know about SpaceHawk...

...but I seriously doubt you've even heard of Space Falcon!

If you don't know who Space Falcon is, it's quite understandable.

His only, never-reprinted, appearance was in PL Publishing's first and only issue of Captain Rocket (1951)!

In fact, PL was one of the least successful comic publishers in history, lasting less than a year and producing only eight titles, none of which ran more than three issues!
However, the creative who scripted and illustrated this tale, Harry Harrison, is probably better-known to you due to his later literary work: the Stainless Steel Rat novel series and the movie Soylent Green, based on his novel Make Room! Make Room!

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Harry Harrison (1925-2012)

Noted sci-fi-author Harry Harrison passed away this week...

...and while he's best-known to the average person for the movie Soylent Green, based on his novel Make Room! Make Room!, sci-fi aficionados (myself included) love his Stainless Steel Rat and DeathWorld series.

But many sci-fi fans are not aware of his almost decade-long stint as a comic book professional, doing everything from writing to editing to penciling and inking over 150 stories in almost every genre from horror to war to romance to Western.

(Oddly, he never did a super-hero story!)

In tribute to his passing, our brother blog, Seduction of the Innocent™ is running one of his horror tales "Terror of the Vampires Kiss".

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