NY Comic Art Convention Advert - Jack Kirby (1976)

Art from Marvel's 2001 A Space Odyssey comic adaption which has been appropriated for a New York Comic Con advert but I'm not sure of the year  I've seen it dated as 1971 which is rubbish because we didn't know about Star Wars back then.  Logic says 1977.  Does any one know better?

based on info in the comments' section then I'll edit to 1976. Thank you

Steve

Captain America by Jack Kirby (1976)

Steve.

Wheelie in the Stars - Nicholas Fisk (1976)

Art byJohn Rose (1979)

?

 

RIP Nicholas

 

Steve

Spaceship Medic by Harry Harrison

What an absolute peach of a cover by Peter Jones for this Puffin edition from 1983

And here is the 1976 (?) version from the same publisher.  Artist Tony Roberts

 

1970 Faber Hardback cover design by Gask & Page

 

1970 Doubleday edition Artist unknown

Steve

Z for Zacharia by Robert C O'Brien (1976) Cover by Boris Vallejo

Z for Zachariah 1976 edition with a cover by  Boris Vallejo.  Not really a spacesuit but a lovely painting all the same.  Its a great book by the way

 

 

Steve

Space 1999 Iced Lolly TV Advert - (1976)

Lets start 2016 with something impressively obscure

 

Which is from the TV advert for the Lyons Maid Space 1999 iced lolly.  Art by Frank Bellamy, apparently.  Go here;

http://thoseweleftbehind.co.uk/category/ice-lollies/

for this and much more.  I'm not sure I ever had one of these but I do remember the Dalek Lollies featured further down the page.


Happy New Year to you


Steve

Out of this World (1976)

Atmospheric sound effects from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop originally released 1976.
Cover artist unknown but feel free to educate me if you know the answer.

Steve

Brian Lewis - A Gallery

I blogged some of Brian Lewis' work back in December 2010 without even realising it.

This cover illustration was from 1976 and was artist unknown by me until this weekend when I stumbled across another piece of Brian Lewis' work; Googled the man and realised his talents had haunted my childhood with out my being aware.

This image is from deep within the pages of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Octopus Books 1978) a Christmas present from back then that I still treasure and look at to this day.

And then there's this little lot.....

1957

1951

1957

1958

1958

 

All a bit before my time but it shows how long Brian was at it and the very high standards he maintained throughout.

And then there was his on going Jet Ace Logan comic strip work.  Jet-Ace Logan was a space pilot with the RAF, 100 years in the future.

And other one off comic stuff like...

Space Tug was featured Countdown Comic somewhere around 1971.

 

We've barely scratched the surface of Brian's work but there's only so much of it I can show you on this site so go look the fellow up on the internet; Enjoy the art and feed the dreams.

Steve

Space 1999 - Brian the Brain (1976)

Brian the Brain is the ninth episode of the second series of Space 1999 and sees one of the more unusual spacesuits variations.

.

I like a bit of clever recycling of props and costumes but what disturbs me about Koenig's back pack is that whatever it is, there's another one pained grey and stuck to the wall directly in front of him. 

 

 

Steve

The Young Scientist Book of Space Flight (1976)

The Young Scientist Book of Space Flight is a much loved book from my childhood and might go some way towards explaining why I find all of this sort of stuff interesting.  Published by Usborne in 1976, it was a mixture of space fact and speculation and contained any number of experiments and projects designed to entertain a generation deprived of anything more than 3 TV channels or home computers and the internet.  And yet interestingly I felt I was living in the future far more back then than I do now, which is probably thoughts for a different more political blog than this one.

Any how, what follows are some of the more entertaining illustrations which are still surprisingly sharp considering how much I wore them out with my eyes. 

 

I first mentioned this book a few weeks back in my post about Plymouth (1991) and how the customised space helmets in the TV pilot reminded me of images from a kids book, well this is it below.

And now the money shot, or at least half a money shot if such a thing can exist. At the end of the book is a two page spread where everything we've learned comes together in a panoramic view of the future.  Here's just the fist page, which contains most of the action.  I lost hours starring through this window.  Marvel at the future font, the certainty of the words, the jet pack, the moon buggy and the heraldic icons adorning those spacemen, living and working on the moon

That's so good its almost pornographic and that's why you only get to see half of it.


Steve

Six Million Dollar Man - Mission To Mars set (1976)

 

If you had one of these then you could dress him up to have a Bionic Adventure.  He'd look like this...

 

Although a much loved toy from my childhood I never actually had this particular set.  Its very cool.

 

Steve

Star Trackin 76 (1976)

Ronco Presents.....Space Disco!

 

I have no more words other than to say sorry for inflicting this on you.

Steve

Tomorrow's Pantomime - Decameron (1976)

Saw this today in an Oxfam Store.  The band were called Decameron.  The album was called Tomorrow's Pantomime and it was their fourth LP, released in 1976.  Obviously it caught my eye enough to note the names and research them online.  I've never heard of them or anything by them so I'm not sure it they are my cup of tea or not but I do like the use of the Journey to the Far Side of the Sun / Doppelganger helmet.  This has popped up in some obscure places over the years but this has to be one of my favourites...and one of the last.

 

Steve

In the Dust of the Stars (1976)

In the Dust of the Stars is an East German film from 1976.

IMDB says;

After a six year journey, the Spaceship Cyrno lands on the planet TEM 4 from where they had received a call for help. Strangely enough, the Temers deny having sent this message. As commander Akala prepares the spaceship to leave they get an invitation from the rich ruler of TEM 4 to be a part of a lush party. Not only do the opulent food and the seductive dancers cloud their minds, but also the drugs mixed into their food manipulate their consciousness. Only navigator Suko was left behind on the spaceship for security reasons and makes an unexpected, terrible discovery.

Oooohh!  I've never seen this but it sounds good to me; being foreign and from off of the 70's and all that.

 

Steve

Something for the Weekend 9

Stacy Dorning as Zova in the 1976 episode of Space 1999


Steve

Futureworld (1976)

Futureworld is the sequel to Westworld so you want to like it but its not good.  It's also the worst kind of sequel in as much that it cheapens and damages the original by association so we should probably just pretend it never happened.

All that said it's been a good twenty years since I last saw it and formed that opinion so if anybody wants to tell me I'm wrong and why its much better than I remember, I'm all ears..or should that be eyes.

Steve