Race for the Moon (1958 Harvey) comic books
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Issue #1
$105.00
View scans- Centerfold detached at one staple. 1" Cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation.
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"Asylum," art by Bob Powell; For thousands of years, an advanced planet had committed horribly insane people to a far-distant planet; But this time a mission is turned back by the now highly-advanced civilization on this distant planet: the planet Earth! "First Man on the Moon," art by Bob Powell. "Supreme Penalty" featuring Chief scientist Frances and Judge Krenk, art by Bob Powell. "Disc Jockey," art by Bob Powell; Sam Webb is a radio station owner and a very unpopular disc jockey who will not take himself off the air; He's so bad that Martians, out of frustration, arrive and forcibly remove him from his post. "So You Want to Go to the Moon" article. "The Invasion," art by Bob Powell; A couple watch a TV news broadcast chronicling an alien invasion and are terrified when Earth's military forces are quickly defeated; Fearing for their lives, they pack and literally run for the hills; They don't hear the news announcer then reveal that the invasion broadcast was an "original tele-screen drama entitled The Invasion From Mars!" Cloverine Salve ad featuring Yogi Berra. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #2
$45.00
View scans- Cover and centerfold detached.
Cover by Jack Kirby and Al Williamson. Stories and art by Jack Kirby, Marvin Stein, Paul Reinman and Al Williamson. Space travel and adventure from Harvey as the 1950s Space Race shifts into high gear. A strange meteor and an old Sputnik satellite leads to humankind's first contact with an alien race. Soviet lunar colonists suspect an errant American of espionage, but he insists he was fleeing from moon-creatures. Scientists discover a stone face on Mars, in a Jack Kirby story written two decades before the discovery of the real-life Face on Mars. Featuring art and cover by comics legends Jack Kirby and Al Williamson. The Thing on Sputnik 4; Turmoil in the Heavens; The Golden Rocket; Lunar Trap; Island in the Sky; Four on Planet X; Why Mars?; The Face on Mars. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #3
$77.00
View scans- Cover detached at one staple. 3/4" tear along edge.
$23.50
View scan- Large piece of front cover missing.
Cover by Jack Kirby and Marvin Stein. Stories and art by Jack Kirby and Al Williamson. Space travel and adventure from Harvey as the 1950s Space Race shifts into high gear. Human moon scouts find a crashed flying saucer and search for its pilot, but soon wish they hadn't. Space explorers find interplanetary outlaw Wiley Breck chained to an asteroid and left to die, but rescuing him has consequences. The Three Rocketeers must recapture a crimelord who escapes a space prison, in a story with terrific Kirby-Williamson art. Featuring art and cover by comics legends Jack Kirby and Al Williamson. The Three Rocketeers: The Long Long Years; Saucer Man; Report from Space; D.P.; The Ruby; Space Garbage; Garden of Eden. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
