(Continued from
1961)
Story by AL STENZEL / Art by LOU FINE
BOYS' LIFE / January 1962
BOYS' LIFE / April 1962
BOYS' LIFE / May 1962
BOYS' LIFE / July 1962
BOYS' LIFE / August 1962
As should be obvious,
SPACE CONQUERORS! had stagnated quite a bit around this point, and in my opinion, had not been quite as exciting since
George Evans' departure. All that was about to change between months. But first, a trio of bonuses, all from the
August 1962 issue.
Art by Lou Fine, Neal Adams & Dik Browne, respectively.
Ironically, after several instances of months without the strip, the new era begins without a break-- right here! Fans of
FORBIDDEN PLANET take note... the "Galaxy One" era of
SPACE CONQUERORS! has arrived...
BOYS' LIFE / September 1962
BOYS' LIFE / November 1962
BOYS' LIFE / December 1962
(Continued in
1963)
Copyright (C)
BOYS' LIFE Magazine
Restorations by Henry Kujawa
For more fun & info:
Sleestak's blog post about
SPACE CONQUERORS!
Smurfswacker's blog post about
SPACE CONQUERORS!
Planettom's blog post about
SPACE CONQUERORS!
Read the
Bob LeRose page at
Wikipedia
Read about the history of
Johnstone & Cushing at the
Hogan's Alley site
Read the
Lou Fine page at
Wikipedia
Something I find interesting in all the iterations of SPACE CONQUERORS! is that Al Stenzel sometimes went years before giving the names of the characters. That is, if I had the assignment of writing such a strip, it'd be hard not to start with "Our rocket is on launchpad, with the skipper, Doc, Sparks the engineer, and Bill.." or whatever. Not so with these. So for years it's just 3 or 4 guys without names, having adventures in space, until somebody slips and actually refers to somebody by name or nickname.
ReplyDeleteHow interesting in the last panel that they had to wait until night to shoot the big dipper. In space, it's always night.
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