The Man In The Moon - Charlie Drake (1964)

This is the cover of The Man In The Moon, the 7" 45rpm EP record featuring Charlie Drake, The Michael Sammes Singers and Johnnie Spence And His Orchestra.  This vinyl release featured the hit songs from Robert Nesbitt's Space-Age musical, which ran at the London Palladium from December 23rd 1963 for the Christmas season.  (That's roughly the same time that the British public were catching there first glimpse of Doctor Who's Daleks!)  Now I wasn't around back then but I am just old enough that everything above means something to me and I actually know, broadly speaking, who all of those names are, but then I am developing a latent taste for cheesy old tunes of yesteryear.


Steve         

The Expanse - Gallery (2015) and onwards

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Outer Space Men (Various)

Some very cool modern toys based on some very cool 60's toys.  Good explanation and description here:  http://glyos.wikia.com/wiki/Outer_Space_Men  And here if you have some loose change: https://theouterspacemen.com/

 

 

Steve

Dean Ellis Gallery (various dates)

Marvellously talented artist


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Bubble Funnies Mini Comic 3 - Captain America (1981)

14 page promotional comic with cover art by Herb Trimpe.

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Pathfinders to Mars (1960)

The second sequel to Target Luna and following on from Pathfinders in Space, Pathfinders to Mars contained the following episodes in its 6 week run; The Imposter, Sabotage in Space, The Hostage Lichens!, Zero Hour on the Red Planet and Falling into the Sun

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Pathfinders in Space (1960)

Pathfinders in Space was the first of three sequels to the TV serial Target Luna shown earlier in the same year on British television via the ATV network.  The 7 episodes were entitled; Convoy to the Moon, Spaceship from Nowhere, Luna Bridgehead, The Man in the Moon, The World of Lost Toys, Disaster on the Moon and Rescue in Space.  The plot involved Professor Norman Wedgewood and his team planning a second rocket mission to the Moon. More importantly for this blog, the spacesuits looked like this....

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Peter Jones Cover Gallery (0000)

There is so much of Peter Jones artwork that I love, especially his work on the Larry Niven books, but for the purposes of this blog, here's some with spacemen in them

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Man and the Moon - Disney (1955)

Man and the Moon is an episode of Disneyland which originally aired on December 28, 1955. It was directed by Disney animator Ward Kimball.

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Man in Space - Walt Disney (1955)

Man in Space is an episode of the American television series Disneyland which originally aired on March 9, 1955. It was directed by Disney animator Ward Kimball.

 

 

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Playmobil Spacemen (2013)

My brother had a lot of Playmobil stuff when he was younger but nothing so fantastic as these from 2013

 

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2000AD issue 2089 (2018)

Cover of a very recent copy of UK weekly comic book; 2000AD.  This is by the great Chris Weston, whose art, design and creativity is staggeringly good

Steve