Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (1953)

Richard Powers (1952)

Cover art for Ballantine paperback by David B. Mattingly (1983)

Cover in detail

 

Steve

Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter (1957) and covers gallery

Albert Orbaan (1957)

 

Bob Pepper (1972)

 

David B Mattingly (19??)

 Cover in detail

 

Steve

David Starr, Space Ranger (1952) and covers gallery

Lucky Starr is the hero of a series of juvenile/young adult SF books by Isaac Asimov, writing under the pen name Paul French.  The British editions of all six novels omitted the Lucky Starr prefixes and went out as the Space Ranger series, which is what I'm going to use as an excuse for my own ignorance about these books.  Now I'm up to speed lets have a series of cover galleries although obviously it will only be those editions that feature spacesuits.

Cover by Bob Pepper (1972)

 

Darrell K Sweet (19??)

 

 

Steve

The Star Dwellers by James Blish (1978) - Colin Hey

Book by James Blish

Cover art by Colin Hay

 

Sculpture by Grant Louden.

 

To see more of this amazing work, under construction and complete, follow the link through to Grant Louden's rather splendid website http://www.grantlouden.com/sculpture.htm

 

Steve

Lunacon (1987)

Another D K Sweet rendered spaceman and another treat for the imagination.

Though a black and white image, there's some lovely close up detail of the spacesuit design on show here.  We've got the usual 2001 look but there's a touch of the real world Mercury program spacesuits in there as well.  Does any one know if this is an original for Lunacon or a section from previously existing work.

 

Steve

Fencon III (2006) Darrell K Sweet

I do love a Darrell K Sweet spaceman.  There's something very son-of-2001 about them.  Its a suit that looks futuristic through the 1970's and plausible enough to carry on beyond that date. 

 

I think this piece was original for Fencon III but if any one knows different be sure to let me know.  Clean image below.

 

 

Steve

Gog (1954)

Gog is a 1954 film directed by Herbert L. Strock. It is notable for having been shot in colour, widescreen and 3-D. It is the third episode in Ivan Tors' Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI) trilogy, following The Magnetic Monster and Riders to the Stars, the later of which we've already looked at.

Here are some familiar spacesuits we've seen before in quite a number of other genre films.

 

 

Steve