Reading Room ROCKET TO THE MOON Part 1

Here's a comic story adapted from a sci-fi high adventure novel...

...see if you can guess which one?

Hint: the comic's name is not the same as the novel's!

Note: May be NSFW due to racial stereotypes common to eras of both the original novel and the comic.

Be here tomorrow, when the story lives up to its' title!

And, if you haven't figured out what novel this story is adapted from, we'll show you the cover of the book!

This 1951 one-shot comic from Avon Comics was scripted by Walter (The Shadow) Gibson and illustrated by Joe Orlando and Wally Wood.

Happy Easter!

Here's a cover we, unfortunately, didn't have time to incorporate into our Exciting Easter collection--this year.
But fear not, Atomic Kommie Comics™ will add it for next year.
(We're big suckers for puppies & kittens!)
Happy Easter, everyone!

Cover Gallery: SPACE ACTION

Here's the complete cover collection for Ace's Space Action...

Art by Lou Cameron

...which share something in common with the covers for Lost Worlds and Fantastic Worlds  besides being science fiction-themed (We showed those covers HERE)!

Art by Matt Fox and/or Lou Cameron

The answer?

None of the covers relate to any of the stories inside the books!

(But they're kool, eh?)

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Nerdist Spaceman Store

...which uses the cover art from Space Action #2 that they adapted into a huge print on the wall of the Nerdist TV show set!

Best of Reading Room RACE FOR THE MOON "Garden of Eden"

From the final issue (#3) of Race For the Moon comes a tale with spectacular Jack Kirby/Al Williamson artwork combining both realistic 1950s spacesuits and architecture and way-out technology and alien costuming.
Note that the female, Anizaar, looks a lot like Zsa Zsa Gabor in the then-current flick Queen of Outer Space, but in a kooler costume than the simple ones shown in the movie!  
Trivia: Zsa Zsa didn't play the title role! "The Queen" was Laurie Mitchell!
The story itself is a clever reworking of several science-fiction tropes common to the era (1958).
See of you can identify them all...

I dunno...while I'm certainly on the humans' side, that last panel sounded like a rather nasty threat...

Best of Reading Room RACE FOR THE MOON "Face on Mars"

Perhaps the most famous story from Race for the Moon...

From #2. Art by Jack Kirby and Al Williamson. Script by Jack Kirby.

Why is it so famous?
When the Viking satellite reached Mars in 1976, it took this photo...

Remember, this was the era of Chariots of the Gods?, and to many, this was confirmation that aliens had either come thru the Solar System and stopped off not only on Earth, but Mars, as well, or were from Mars initially!
And, there were those who remembered this little comic tale from their childhood.
The truth was a bit more mundane. Click HERE for NASA's explanation.
There are those who say it's a cover-up, that there is life on Mars, and that "the face" is a relic of their existence.
Judge for yourself.