In case anyone missed the comments to
The Future Never Become, Paul has pointed out that one of the models pictured on the cover of the book is the Zorglumobile from the Spirou et Fantasio comic strips. (It's the red vehicle with the four rotors, to the right of the boy's head.)
He also found this movie on YouTube of a flying model! Thanks, Paul.
Now if only someone would make a radio-controlled flying model of the SpaceX Nuclear Pulse.
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READ THE ESSENTIAL PROJECT SWORD COMICS HISTORY BY SHAQUI LEVESCONTE & KIM STEVENS
the definitive guide to vintage thunderbirds toys - steve's thunderbirds vintage toys
PROJECT SWORD SPACEX TIMELINE
- 1968 SPACEX LT10 CONCEPT
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER REAL THING
- 1969 LUNAR CLIMBER & MOONSHIP
- 1968 PROJECT SWORD ANNUAL
- 1968 TV21 #168 PROJECT SWORD PHASE 2
- 1968 PLEASURE CRUISER CONCEPT
- 1968 CENTURY 21 TOY MANUAL
- 1967 SCOUT 1 CONCEPT
- 1967 NUCLEAR FERRY TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1967 SWORD TOY AD
- 1966 SPACE GLIDER CONCEPT
- 1966 HOVERTANK IN COMIC
- 1966 NUKE PULSE NEEDLEPROBE IN COMIC
- 1966 ZERO X FILM DEBUT
- 1966 MOONBUS IN COMIC
- 1966 SPACE PATROL 1
- 1966 P3 HELICOPTER IN COMIC
- 1966 SAND FLEA AND SNOW TRAIN
- 1966 MOBILE LAUNCH PAD IN COMIC
- 1965 SPACEX MOONBASE CONCEPT
- 1965 APOLLO FIRST UK TOY AD
- 1962 NOVA CONCEPT
- 1962 MOONBUS CONCEPT
- 1961 MOON PROSPECTOR CONCEPT
- 1953 MOLAB CONCEPT
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PROBE FORCE 3 VARIATIONS
PROJECT SWORD, SPACEX AND APOLLO MOON EXPLORING LIST. KEY SS = SIMILAR TO SWORD, SB = Similar box
- T Moon Prospector artwork box
- T Moon Prospector Photo Box
- T Moon Ranger
- Tarheel (T) Space Glider USA
- Sears 3 Stage Rocket Base USA
- Century 21 (C21) Moonbase Playset UK
- C21 Zero X
- C21 Nuclear Ferry
- C21 Cape Kennedy Set
- C21 Apollo Saturn Rocket
- C21 Space Glider
- C21 Moon Ranger
- C21 Booster Rocket
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- C21 Probe Force 1
- C21 Probe Force 2
- C21 Probe Force 3
- C21 Re-Entry Taskforce 1
- C21 Re-Entry Taskforce 3
- C21 Re- Entry Taskforce 2
- Century 21 Scout 1
- Century 21 Scout 2
- Century 21 Scout 3
- C21 Rocket Launcher - SS
- C21 Mobile Bridge & Combat Tank - SS
- C21 Moonship - SS
- C21 Lunar Climber - SS
- C21 Topo Gigio Camper - SB
3 comments:
Just read your follow-up comments, Toad, and I'm glad the library has some Spirou titles, even though they're later stories by Tome and Janry. What's pretty frustrating is that the publisher's website appears to be seriously on the blink, for they have quite a few Franquin stories available and google shows there is supposed to be an online shop on that site.
On this list here
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~z14/euro-comics/spirou_and_fantasio.html
everything up to Nr 16 is by Franquin, who in my humble opinion far surpasses Hergé as a comic strip artist. It's all much better observed, and detailed and more alive. His Gaston Lagaffe series is very funny, and his later Idées Noires (Black Ideas) are excellent too. It's a pity so few of it is available in English...
Maybe contact the publishers and see how far you can get? http://www.eurobooksindia.com/
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Paul
And then I had a better look at that list, and the Zorglub story was actualy published in the US. If there's one I'd recommend to try and get then it's this one. Extracts here:
http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/605731.html
Publisher no longer in business, but there's copies available online.
Alternatively, learn french...
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Paul
Seems the library has just the one title. But that's one more than I dared hope for.
Wish I was smart enough to learn French ... it's taken me a lifetime to learn meself sum inglish tho.
Thanks for those links. looking into it ... I want to see what these are like. I feel I've missed out on something good.
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