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Showing posts with label Space : 1999. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space : 1999. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Captain's Library & Theatre: SPACE: 1999 "This Insect Earth" Conclusion & "Return to the Beginning"
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| Art byArnaldo Putzu |
...the synopsis below covers everything you need to know up to this point!
The next story arc takes them to Mars, still over a thousand years in the future!
This tale from the British Look-In magazine was written by Angus P Allen and illustrated by John M Burns (who had worked on Lady Penelope, and other Gerry Anderson-based strips, but is best known for his art on Judge Dredd and Dan Dare).
This tale from the British Look-In magazine was written by Angus P Allen and illustrated by John M Burns (who had worked on Lady Penelope, and other Gerry Anderson-based strips, but is best known for his art on Judge Dredd and Dan Dare).
Yesterday, we mentioned another version of the "Moon returns to Earth in another time period" plot, so here it is...
"Return to the Beginning" as presented by Power Records!
"Return to the Beginning" as presented by Power Records!
It's the second and last Power Records story (besides "Breakaway") adapted into comic form.
(The other Space: 1999 audio stories weren't illustrated.)Art by Rich Buckler, Russ Heath, Mike Netzer, Alan Weiss, and Dick Giordano (and possibly other Continuity Associates/Crusty Bunker personnel).
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Captain's Library: SPACE: 1999 "This Insect Earth" Part 1
In England, instead of a comic book, Space: 1999 appeared as a weekly strip...
...beginning with this story that appeared the month the show debuted on TV, September, 1975!
Actually, you'll see the conclusion tomorrow!
This serialized tale from the British mag Look-In was written by Angus P Allen and illustrated by John M Burns (who had worked on various other Gerry Anderson bases strips, but is best known for his art on Judge Dredd and Dan Dare).
Note: the Year One episode "Another Time, Another Place" (which also featured the Alphans landing on an Earth, albeit a parallel Earth) had not yet aired, so a story about a return to their home world wouldn't be unlikely.
In fact, Power Records also did a "return to Earth via time travel" tale, but had the Alphans going into the past where they encountered Noah just before the Great Flood!
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Captain's Library: SPACE: 1999 "Breakaway" (Power Records) Conclusion
We have already seen...
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| Art by Rich Bucker and Dick Giordano |
Problems plague the upcoming Meta Probe mission and newly-appointed commander of MoonBase Alpha, John Koenig, discovers the "official" story to be a pack of lies with the "virus" ravaging the personnel actually being magnetic radiation from the nuclear waste pits on the far side of the Moon.
And there's another, unexpected, problem besides the deterioration of human brains and bodies...
The writer who adapted the screenplay is unknown, but the art is by Rich Buckler, Dick Giordano, Frank McLaughlin, and Neal Adams' Continuity Studios team.
There were two lp albums from Power Records of Space: 1999 stories.
The first one featured three adaptations of Year One stories: "Breakaway", "Death's Other Dominion" and "Mission of the Darians".
Only "Breakaway" was adapted into separate comic book form with a 45 rpm record.
The second lp album, despite having Year Two cover photos (including Maya and Tony Verdeschi), consisted of two Year One adaptations; "Dragon's Domain" and "End of Eternity" and two original tales; "Return to the Beginning" (adapted into comics form with a 45 rpm lp record) and "It Played So Softly on the Ear" which were both based on the Year One format.
Oddly, though rocketry pioneer Wernher Von Braun gave the show a commendation, noted science fact/science fiction author Isaac Asimov railed against the series' scientific inaccuracies in a couple of newspaper and magazine articles, HERE and HERE.
"Breakaway" is probably the single most-adapted tv show episode or movie in history!
In English alone, there's no less than three different comic book versions (all of which we've presented), plus a novelization, a short story that appeared in the first British Space:1999 Annual, as well as the story being adapted into EC Tubb's epic EarthFall novel which, after the incidents of "Breakaway", did an "alternate-universe" story covering decades, and finally returning a second generations of Alphans to Earth!
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Captain's Library: SPACE: 1999 "Breakaway" (Power Records) Part 1
We previously presented the audio version of the pilot episode...
...but, since we've received several requests for the tale in standard page format, here it is!
Tomorrow: The Explosive Conclusion!
The writer who adapted the screenplay is unknown, but the art is by Rich Buckler, Dick Giordano, Frank McLaughlin, and Neal Adams' Continuity Studios crew.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Captain's Library: SPACE: 1999 "Adam & Eve-Mark II"
This is not a sequel, or related, to the Year 2 ep "New Adam, New Eve"...
...since it was written and drawn for the 1975 Space: 1999 Annual and clearly takes place in Year 1!
Ah, the old "they have no immunity to our germs" ending!
It worked for H.G. Wells, it works here...
Illustrated by John Burns, who rendered a number of other Gerry Anderson series in comic strip form, this story appeared in the 1975 Space: 1999 Annual, a hardcover containing short stories, comic strips, text features, games, and photos.
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