Hi Woodsy
Growing up I was lucky to inherit some amazing annuals and also go to great 2nd hand book sales, the latter gave me a knowledge of old sci-fi that took me years to catch up on.
The imagery of Space Kingsley drew me directly to Things to come. The Lion annual was a poor version of Dan Dare to me but the action of that cover still blows me away for its realism!!
I know I've seen Space Kingsley models on your site, have any readers been inspired to build pre-1960's sci-fi models?
Regards
Mark J
English South Coast
Gorgeous artwork!
ReplyDeleteThere's some pre-1960's modelling later today Mark!
ReplyDeleteYes- and am currently thinking about building a small Flash Gordon spaceship.
ReplyDeleteRon Jobson, who did part of the Kingley Annuals was a good artist (he did the larger pictures, not the strip cartoons) and also did wartime posters featuring aircraft.
I do like the annual cover artwork :)
ReplyDeleteMe too, gorgeous covers Mark. That 1958 Lion Annual cover shows more a less what the Star Wars AT AT was to become 20 years later!
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