Friday Fun ROWAN & MARTIN'S LAUGH IN "Five Year Plan for the Moon" & "...as Used by Our Astronaughts in Space!"

Though largely-forgotten today...

Wraparound cover of #12

Artist Unknown

...this 1960s comedy-variety TV series was ground-breaking in a number of ways.

Besides the show's anti-Establishment content, which was always a source of contention with NBC network censors, it had an amazing amount of tie-in merchandise...including a MAD-style magazine!
In 1969, with the first Moon landing about to occur, the mag took a couple of looks at the space program...

...and...

By the time these features appeared in the final issue of Laufer Publishing's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (#12 in 1969), the use of images of the actual performers from the show had been reduced to the cover and a couple of one-pagers based on long-running gags like the "Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award".
Laufer Publishing was best-known for the legendary 1960s-70s teen magazine Tiger Beat!,...

...which continues to this day as a website, though not a print magazine!

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MEOW!

My Groovy Life with Tiger Beat's Teen Idols!

Kirby Reading Room SECRET CITY SAGA "When Titans Trash!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Cover penciled by Steve Ditko and inked by John Byrne

Still unable to communicate with Chicagoans who can't speak their long-dead language, our heroic Ninth Men are about to be incarcerated by the police when a Gazaran teenager (who came out of suspended animation before either the benevolent or malevolent Gazarans were revived) enters the scene...

And we're only halfway through this mini-series!

To Be Continued...

Next Tuesday!

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Kirby: Genesis

A retelling of elements of the Secret City Saga which also combines other Kirby projects like Galaxy Green, Captain Victory and Silver Star!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder MONKEY PLANET Part 2

When Last We Left Our Stranded Protaganist...

Cover of 1st British hardcover edition

The diary of Ulysse Merou, journalist with an interstellar expedition from Earth, is found floating in space by other astronauts.

It recounts how the team landed on a planet in the Betelgeuse system discovering both primitive humans and a society of intelligent apes utilizing technology equal to late 20th Century Earth!

Captured by the simians, who don't realize he's not one of their primitive humans, Merou is taken to a major metropolis...

To be concluded...

...Next Wednesday!

Written and illustrated by Ernő Zórád, this 1981 Hungarian one-shot adaptation of the original French novel by Pierre Boule has never been officially-published in English.

But, thanks to the fine work of Kyriee (Scans), Swatura Od (translation) and Avoros (scripting), we're finally able to understand this tale in English.

Thanks, guys.

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Planet of the Apes

by Pierre Boulle

The novel (Monkey Planet) that the movie (and the graphic novel) were based upon!

There was never a novelization of the movie itself!

Kirby Reading Room SECRET CITY SAGA "When Titans Trash!" Part 1

We Rejoin the Ninth Men...

...wait, we're starting with a flashback...specifically to THIS scene?

OK, let's go to a recap...

Now, that clears it up, right?
Even if it doesn't, just go with it...

We'll Find Out What That is...

Thursday!

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Kirby: Genesis

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