Men Into Space

After a hard orbit of wranglin' satellites and fighting off Commie claim jumpers, a spaceman just wants a relaxin' smoke.

Wow, a free sundae or even a banana split!... Wait a minute, oh jeeze, only the coupon is free!

One of my all time favorite Gold Key covers

From August 1966, by Vic Prezio.
 Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 A.D. #15

click pic for the LARGE version!

Comicbooks from WWII

If you're of a mind that showing cartoon images of people who want you to die horribly is somehow wrong, maybe you'd better not look at these. Seriously.


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Fibber Is Taken For A Ride

from 1946

Original Wilson painting for SPACE FAMILY ROBINSON #22

Note the actual sparseness of the background. To me, anyway, he always managed to convey more detail than is actually there..from June 1967

 
 

INFORMATIVE COMIC BOOK PAGES- Army Surveyors

During the last half of its long run, the Dell Four Color series began placing , on its last page or so, an educational short often related to whatever that particular issue was about.Gold Key continued this for their first few years too. Since so many of the series were Westerns, there were alot of Western facts put forth for the boomer kid with his cap gun and coonskin cap.

from FC#1116, drawn by Albert Micale.

Plastic Musicians

These 4 inch high figures sat on my best friend's mantel when we were kids. Four decades later, after I mentioned how much I liked them then, he gave them to me for my birthday.