More Last Kiss fun from Tony Isabella & Diego Jourdan Pereira!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Murphy Anderson from the story “All Aboard for the Moon” in Rangers Comics #64, April 1952. (Fiction House.)
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SCENE: Astronauts working on the Moon.
ASTRONAUT: Put your backs into it, team! The sooner we finish building this moonbase...the sooner we can join the 238,900 Mile High Club!
1952 Art: Murphy Anderson Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
djp_LK729_Murphy Anderson_Ranger Comics #64
ASTRONAUT: Put your backs into it, team! The sooner we finish building this moonbase...the sooner we can join the 238,900 Mile High Club!
1952 Art: Murphy Anderson Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
djp_LK729_Murphy Anderson_Ranger Comics #64
Read all the Burroughs trash I could get for free…
The Moon Maid, by Frank Frazetta:
https://i.imgur.com/uO3IHBq.jpeg
The 1929 silent film Die Frau Im Monde is interesting for the very familiar looking rocket launch details. Turns out the film maker asked actual German rocket scientists for ideas. The film was removed from circulation by the Nazi party and faded into obscurity for decades.
Of course the rest of the film is just delightful nonsense.
You will hear that story repeated quite a lot– but it is bogus. Check when the Nazi control actually started working on rockets and it was in the 1940’s and the guy who invented the liquid fuel rocket and the staged rocket system during the late nineteen teens on through the mid forties period was Robert H. Goddard.
The Nazi Party did not have any power in 1929 to affect the movie.
In WW2 Wernher von Braun was working on the Nazi rocket program but did not want to go to Russia after the war so he and the V2 design team made a mad dash to get to the American Zone to avoid the Soviets. He wanted to work with Goddard and the Americans.
in the late 1920’s there were not any German Rocket Designers and even in the US Goddard had a New York Times editorial demanding his removal from teaching for his outlandish and “known wrong” opinions about rockets, but with a few others they continued working until Goddard died in 1945.
The 1929 movie drew on Goddard’s work in creation of the rocket and controls.
And the New York Times made a formal and official withdrawal of the earlier editorial lambasting Goddard– the retraction was in 1969.
And forty years after the movie Americans walked on the moon.
Today’s Last Kiss got me thinking…
The world of “Have Spacesuit – Will Travel” by Heinlein has not come to pass. Quite a disappointment.
“I love Skyway Soap because it’s as pure as the sky itself.”
DJT exeplifies the following quote from HSWT:
“I wonder how harmless such people are? To what extent civilization is retarded by the laughing jackasses, the empty-minded belittlers?”
And now the the majority of U.S. voters have chosen the empty minded belittler to be President. Sigh…
OXO helmets? Is that a different version of oxygen, or just a prelude to joining the club?
Once again I am in awe of the things I learn from Last Kiss. it was fascinating. It isn’t only in rocket science that the experts were wrong. Perhaps reading science fiction and comics should be required in all university courses.
Here’s a better link to “Moon Maid” complete with statuary.
https://imgur.com/gallery/moon-maid-eNpZB