Comic Book Short Story~The Space Lorelei

Story & Art :George Roussos

from Fantastic Worlds #6 (November 1952)

The Art Of Harry Clarke

Harry Clarke (March 17, 1889 – January 6, 1931) was an Irish stained glass artist and book illustrator. Clarke's work was influenced by both the Art Nouveau and the budding  Art Deco movements.


Here are some of his illustrations for Poe's books.

Somewhat more pleasant images for an edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales:

Joe Lucky

During the 40s and 50s, Jack Benny's sponsor for his radio (and TV ) show was Lucky Strike cigarettes. Back then they worked the ads ito the show, and the Sportsman Quartet sang a different ditty each week extolling the virtues of said ciggy. There was a multi -episode plot line where announcer Don Wilson was hiding in shame for mis-speaking the slogan "Be Happy Go Lucky"

Here is a magazine ad from the early 50s featuring Jack Benny and the Lucky Strike mascot.

Typewriter Eats Girl

Comic Book Short Story~Blabber Mouse in "Belling The Cat"

from Funny Stuff #42, FEB 1949

by Rube Grossman

Cyborg

Painting by FRED FREEMAN, originally appearing in the July 11, 1960 issue of LIFE Magazine.

The creature unreeling an electric cable as he explores a distant planet is a man prepared for  space as some scientists propose. Electrodes and other attachments would control many of the physical functions normally initiated by the brain, such as heart-beat, regulation of body temperature, and breathing. Electrodes planted in the pleasure centers of the brain would help him to pass the tedium of space travel. Dubbed a "Cyborg" (cybernetic organism), he may well exist in the near future for U.S. space agencies have authorised serious research towards his creation.

Saturday Morning Comics~Men Into Space

Men Into Space was  an American science-fiction television series broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 by CBS which depicted future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. The black-and-white filmed show starred William Lundigan as Col. Edward McCauley.

  DELL did a comic book adaption ;Four Color #1083 (March-May 1960)


Here is the first of three stories in that issue, based on the first episode of the series.

Script:Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils:Murphy Anderson

The series was not set in a specific era, but clues throughout the scripts indicated that it took place in the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, with the first moon landing somewhere around 1975. Props were occasionally futuristic (such as a forerunner of today's real-life LCD TVs) but the show's earthly clothing and environs, including automobiles, telephones and other machines, were decidedly 1950s.