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Showing posts with label Destination Moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Destination Moon. Show all posts
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Monday, June 18, 2012
Captain's Library: DESTINATION MOON
No, you're not confused.
We already presented the comic book adaptation of Destination Moon.
It turns out that Space: 1999's pilot episode "Breakaway" was not the only movie or TV show to have multiple versions in other media (though it still holds the record AFAIK!)...
The George Pal movie Destination Moon has no less than three different versions published in comics!
Here's the second one, from Strange Adventures #1 (1951)!
The final version, published in Youthful Publications' Captain Science #1 (November 1950) is a short text (with pix) adaptation!
It sounds like this this piece was taken directly out of the presskit.
The full-length Fawcett Comics version (which we ran HERE) also came out in 1950, when the movie was released.
DC Comics' Strange Adventures #1 is cover-dated August/September 1951 and was probably done as the film was being re-released to second-run theatres (A common practice in the pre-VCR/DVD/Internet era).
Friday, November 4, 2011
Captain's Library & Theatre: DESTINATION MOON Conclusion
Four people.
One spaceship.
A race to the Moon to beat the Communists.
(Now you know where Stan Lee and Jack Kirby got the basic premise for The Fantastic Four!)
Surviving a perilous journey, the world's first astronauts reach the Moon and are about to land...
Trivia: John Archer (wealthy industrialist Jim Barnes) played wealthy playboy Lamont Cranston for a season (1944-45) on The Shadow radio show!
Dick Wesson (Joe Sweeney) made his film debut in Destination Moon. He acted in numerous war and western flicks, usually playing a "fish-out-of-water" comedy relief character. Dick became a writer-director-producer with numerous credits including Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Maude!
Here's a couple of nifty treats for you...
First, the trailer for the flick...
..then the movie itself...
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Captain's Library; DESTINATION MOON Part 2
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| The second (1958) reprint of this tale. Art by Charles Nicholas & Vince Alascia. |
"We must beat the Commies to the Moon!"
That's the mandate wealthy industrialist Jim Barnes is given by the US government to build a prototype spacecraft designed by Professor Cargraves.
But, when they're told to postpone the test flight, Barnes, Cargraves, military liason General Thayer, and engineer Joe Sweeney launch the ship...
That's the mandate wealthy industrialist Jim Barnes is given by the US government to build a prototype spacecraft designed by Professor Cargraves.
But, when they're told to postpone the test flight, Barnes, Cargraves, military liason General Thayer, and engineer Joe Sweeney launch the ship...
Lunar landing!
Crisis!
Conclusion!
(but no bug-eyed aliens)
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Captain's Library: DESTINATION MOON Part 1
Remember when the future was fantastic?
One of the main reasons was movie producer George Pal, who refused to go "Flash Gordon", and presented flix using then-state-of-the-art sfx and the most accurate theories about outer space science could offer at the time, like this Oscar-winning movie from 1950!
Witness the journey...tomorrow!
Script by Otto Binder, pencils by Dick Rockwell, inks by Sam Burlockoff.
The movie is loosely based on Robert A Heinlein's 1947 novel Rocket Ship Galileo.
Heinlein was also a co-writer of the movie's screenplay.
In addition, Heinlein wrote an adaptation of the movie's script, which was published in Short Stories Magazine. and a behind-the-scenes article "Shooting Destination Moon" for Astounding Science Fiction.
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