Space Hero Saturdays ROCKET KELLY "Mr Weather's Revenge"

As a Heat Wave Bakes the Continental US...

...we thought you'd enjoy a Space Hero Saturday story involving something cooling...like glaciers!

Gotta admit, a smiling Sun is not what you'd expect in the final panel of an ostensibly-serious strip!

This never-reprinted tale from Fox's Rocket Kelly #4 (1946) was credited to "Ted Small", a Fox in-house pseudonym used on all the Rocket Kelly stories (despite several obviously-different writers and artists) along with a number of one-shot features!
Illustrated by Arnold Hicks, this story is from the third (and final) version of the strip, after being a WWII aviator with a souped-up fighter-bomber...then a WWII aviator who accidentally ends up aboard an alien spacecraft...to an ex-WWII aviator whose genius father gives him his own creation to fly around in and keep the Earth safe.

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Space Hero Saturdays FANTASTIC COMICS "Space Smith and the Mummified Meteor Vacuumites"

If that title doesn't lure you into reading this post...

...I'll eat my Cosmic Transtator!

Enjoy this even weirder-than-usual installment of Space Smith by the legendary Fletcher Hanks from Fox's Fantastic Comics #6 (1940)!

Say what you will about Fletcher Hanks' sometimes-iffy technical proficiency, but his stories are never dull!

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I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!

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Fletcher Hanks
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Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "Beyond the Sun"

If a Hero is Judged by the Quality of His Arch-Enemies...

...Captain Midnight has just made a quantum leap from "space pirate" to "ruler of an entire planet"!

Scientific note: though it was known to the scientific community since the 1930s that Saturn, like Jupiter was a gas giant, science fiction/fantasy stories continued to show them as large planets similar to Earth, but with heavy cloud cover that prevented observation of the surface!
Illustrated by Leonard Frank, Fawcett's Captain Midnight #64 (1948) introduces Cap's second (and final) alien arch-enemy, Xog: Ruler of Saturn!
You'll see more of him next month!

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Space Hero Saturdays MAJOR INAPAK: SPACE ACE

Buckle On Your Blaster Belts, Kiddies...

...as we hurtle through the depths of outer space (and learn invaluable scientific facts) with the one-and-only Major Inapak and kid stowaway-turned-sidekick, Robin John!
Our tale begins in the far-distant year of 2031...













Sadly, there were no further adventures of Major Inapak and Robin John/"Master Rocketeer"!

Illustrated by Bob Powell and scripted by Powell, Gardner Fox or the two in collaboration.

We presented background info about Major Inapak and Inapak Chocolate Drink  HERE and HERE!

You may note the cover doesn't have a price on it!

It wasn't sold on newsstands or in candy stores!
It was likely handed out at licensing trade shows to show merchandisers how publisher Magazine Enterprises could produce a tie-in comic with their products, just as DC and Marvel do today!

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Space Hero Saturdays SPACEBALLS: THE ANIMATED SERIES!

With the news of the upcoming Spaceballs 2: the Schwartz Awakens...

...we're presenting something most space sci-fi fans don't even know exists...Spaceballs the Animated Series, which came and went in 2008-2009 without making much of an impression!

Created and executive produced by Mel Brooks (who also reprised his roles as President Skroob and Yogurt), the show adapted the movie in its' first two episodes, making a couple of changes (like Lone Star isn't a prince so he can't marry Princess Vespa) for the ongoing series.
Some movie cast returned to voice their characters again, including Daphne Zuniga (Princess Vespa), Joan Rivers (Dot Matrix), and Dom DeLuise (Pizza the Hutt).
The other roles were filled by sound-alikes.
The biggest drawback is the computer-generated animation that's only a step above the limited animation of the 1960s Marvel Super-Heroes Show (which has the excuse of being animated directly from photostats of the detailed original comic art by Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, etc).
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The TV Teaser for the series' premiere!

Episode One: Dark Helmet's Revenge 

Episode Two: the Schwartz Strikes Back!

After you've watched them, go to Secret Sanctum of Captain Video to see the final show of the series, spoofing Marvel Comics!

Space Hero Saturdays WITCHCRAFT "Hero of the Venus Flyer!"

Being a Space Hero Can Be as Easy as Being in the Right Place at the Right Time...

...and as difficult as being willing to die to save others!

Illustrated by Gene Fawcette and scriped by an unknown writer, this tale appeared twice within a year, first in Avon's WitchCraft #6 (1953), then in Avon's Strange Worlds #18 (1954), where, due to a miscalculation in pagination, the last page of the story ended up on the inside back cover, in black-and-white!

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