Woodsy, here's the best of the book -
The Real Book about Space Travel
Hal Goodwin and Clifford Geary (Illustrator)
Published by Garden City Books, Garden City, New York, 1952.
Even though this was a kid's book and only used line art somehow, I still feel the art was, for the most part, uninspired.
But to be fair, the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials were pretty much the only inspiration for youngsters back then. TV series like Tom Corbett and Rocky Jones had yet to come along (okay, Tom Corbett did come out in 1952 but the author may not have seen the series when this book went to print).
The really cool stuff for visionary space flight didn't really come along until after this book was published. Hope you like it.
Ed
Las Vagas
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Thank you. It is always interesting to see something from that early in the history of space flight, from before the Real Thing. What did they get right, and what did they get wrong ?
ReplyDelete1952? There were plenty of pulp magazines out there for them to see. Hugo Gernsback's Amazing Stories, Astounding, Analog, etc etc. Lots of art inspiration available out there for this publisher to have seen.
ReplyDeleteOr these: "Planet Comics was a science fiction comic book title published by Fiction House from January 1940 to Winter 1953. It was the first comic book dedicated wholly to science fiction...It was a spinoff of a pulp magazine in this case Planet Stories."
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