Captain's Library STEPHEN COLBERT'S TEK JANSEN "Return to Space Academy!" Conclusion

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...sent to Space Academy for retraining after his last mission went horribly wrong, Tek Jansen, in his inimitable style, stumbled upon...danger!

There are, in fact, three more tales in this storyline, which we'll return to in the (obviously) future!

But there's another standalone Case File with a kool twist ending waiing for you at Atomic Kommie Comics on Saturday as part of (obviously) Space Hero Saturdays!

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Captain's Library STEPHEN COLBERT'S TEK JANSEN "Invasion of the Optiklons!!!" Conclusion

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...manly Tek Jansen rescues several dozen beautiful green alien women from the diabolical Psychotto!

After doing what Space Heroes tend to do after rescuing beautiful green (or blue, or orange, or purple, he doesn't discriminate) women, Tek is ordered back to HQ by his boss, Over-Seeress Brainia!

When he sees a cheering crowd at the landing pad, Tek naturally assumes they're there to greet him after another successful mission!

But they're really there to greet the Chief of the Optiklons, who bring advanced technology to end disease, hunger, poverty, and numerous other problems!

Tek believes this is some sort of trick, but is ordered to not interfere...

Though Tek returns to Atomic Kommie Comics on Saturday for (obviously) Space Hero Saturdays, that'll be a separate short story.

This particular plotline continues next Wednesday in (what else)...

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder at Atomic Kommie Comics!

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Captain's Library & Theatre MEN INTO SPACE "Dust and the Depths"

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...a four man-expedition led by this stalwart young fellow, USAF Coloney Edwar MacCauley, has reached the Moon!

They discover underground caverns where, during a moonquake, one of the astronauts sacrifices himself to enable the others to climb out safely.
The three survivors return to the ship, then decide to do another probe into the cavers below...

This adaptation of the conclusion of the 2nd episode of the series, "Moon Landing" is almost totally-different than the aired episode!

It's much more ambitious in scope and would've required far more eleborate SFX than what was shown on TV.

We suspect that, due to the lead time to produce the comic (about three months from scripting to illustrating to printing), comic scripter Gardner DuBois worked from an early draft of the episode from James (Shogun) Clavell.
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Captain's Library MEN INTO SPACE "Moon Landing"

As the Artemis Moon-Shot Finally Prepares for Launch...

...we're going to show you how we planned to do it even before we sent a single human being into space with the comic adaptation of a TV series from 1959...

To Be Concluded...Thursday!

The Men in Space TV series ran for one season of 38 episodes, the equivalent of three seasons today on broadcast or streaming services, on CBS in 1959-60.

It eschewed typical space-opera stereotypes and plotlines, and presented a realistic "Day after Tomorrow" scenario utilizing info provided by the US Air Force, the then-newly created NASA, actual rocket scientist Dr Werhner von Braun, and designer/futurist Chesley Bonestell!

The story from Dell's Four Color Comics: Men into Space #1083 (1960), adapting the second episode "Moon Landing" scripted by James (Shogun) Clavell was scripted by Gaylord DuBois and illustrated (pencils & inks) by Murphy Anderson!

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