Strange Adventures #240 (1973)

Strange Adventures #240 from February 1973.  That's the last of the Strange Adventures archive of spacemen covers and what have we learnt?  Well regardless of whats going on around them in the real world or what innovative design is being cooked up in the movies, your average comic artist is perpetually drawn to a the classic fishbowl style of space helmet simply because it allows him to illustrate the human face and its many expressions.  Although I'm not entirely sure which one this is meant to be.

Name checking of the artist in the comments below by Mister Snitch!  Many thanks, Sir. 


Steve

Strange Adventures #238 (1972)

Strange Adventures #238 from October 1972.  Look!  little tiny spacemen.  Green boots, red trousers and a white top?  There's no excuse for that, whatever your size.


Steve

Strange Adventures #230 (1971)

Strange Adventures # 230 from June of 1971.  Get that Moon Sphinx!

Steve

Strange Adventures #150 (1963)

Strange Adventures #150 from March 1963.  I have little more to add to that except to say that it's a bit of a lovely looking cover, this one. And I'm strangely drawn to the colour scheme of the suits.


Steve

Strange Adventures #140 (1962)

The Prisoner of the Space-Patch, eh? and with added hyphenation to suggest that a Space-Patch is a particular thing. I'm impressed by the madness of it all and can't help wondering why the menace of the Space-Patch has not been exploited by other sci-fi writers over the years.  It's a rather splendidly tricky dilemma that can't even be fixed with a good poke from a broom handle!

Well that was Strange Adventures #140, for you.  Out in May of 1962 and with a spacesuit design that's beginning to acknowledge reality over ideas perpetuated from 50's cinema.

Steve

Strange Adventures #93 (1958)

Strange Adventures #93 from June 1958.  Now that's a cover that should be far better known than it is.  A classic as yet to be discovered.  Well done that cover artist, who ever he may be.  I will name check him here just as soon as I find out who he is.

Read the comment below by Mister Snitch! for possible naming of that artist.  Many thanks, Sir.  Really appreciate the feedback.

Steve

Strange Adventures # 64 (1956)

Strange Adventures #64 from January 1956 brings us one of our earliest examples of apes in spacesuits.  There's a bit more of this sort of thing around here than I previously thought so I think I'll add us an; Apes in Space, label so we can keep track of them all

Steve