Perry Rhodan, the German sci-Fi pulp comic series, must be one of the most prolific lines in sci-fi pulp. Having just looked at the cover gallery there are over three thousand editions! Its following must go back years and be massive in its home country.
This is the cover gallery link https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Titelbildgalerie_PR_1_-_99
Here are just two of the covers that caught my eye, simply because they contain my old mucker the Dyna-Soar, a design I knew well as a kid because Century 21 Toys released a lovely plastic version as part of their Project SWORD range of spaceships.
Do you read Perry Rhodan?
Read all 16 issues that were published in Finnish in the mid-Seventies, and as an avid fan was sad to have such a great storyline cut abruptly. Never guessed at the time there was so much more in store!
ReplyDeleteWow Arto, you actually read them! Great stuff.
DeleteI know Perry Rhodan only from the wonderfully cheesy film made about the character, Mission Starsdust, with Pierre Brice and Essy Persson. One of my favorite guilty pleasures, although I’m sure Rhodan fans hate it with a passion! SF_Z
ReplyDeleteSorry, Lang Jeffries, not Pierre Brice. Aka 4,3,2,1... morte. 1967.
DeleteSo there's a film too! Blimey SF!
DeleteDon't really know Perry Rhodan, but didn't he fight Godzilla ?
ReplyDeleteNo, that was his brother, storm chaser Gene Rhoden
ReplyDeletehttps://www.tempesttours.com/blog/tag/Gene+Rhoden
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/weather-photographer-gene-rhoden-captures-a-developing-tornado-on-film-near-stuart-nebraska-on-june-9th-2003-stuart-is--353391901988348150/
Oh very droll. Or should I say perry droll!
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