Beginning: a long-lost space epic of a federation of alien worlds, cyborgs, a secret Earth defense force, and flying saucers...
...years before Star Trek, Six Million Dollar Man, or UFO were broadcast over the airwaves!
What...or who...is at the end of the corridor?
Find out...
Next Wednesday!
With a real-life space program well under way, this book-length tale from
Dell's Four Color Comics #1253 (1962) was an attempt to "update" the sort of space opera popular with comic and pulp fans of the 1940s-50s like
Speed Carter: SpaceMan and
Space Squadron by setting it in the near-future instead of 50 or more years later.
Writen by Ken Fitch and illustrated by Jack Sparling, who used the then-current Mercury astronauts' spacesuit designs, but Chesley Bonestell's already-outdated spacecraft concepts (probably because the finned ships looked cooler than the actual Atlas and Redstone rockets NASA was using) as reference.
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