A Trip Through Space with Elsie the Cow (1957)

 

This was a promotional comic from Borden's dairy staring their mascot Elsie the Cow. It contains 16 pages of "Space-Fun, Games, Puzzles, Cut-Outs." Their is not much story but it was illustrated well. I choose to included the whole comic for your pleasure.

A Trip Through Space with Elsie the Cow. (Borden promotional comic) The Borden Co. 16 pg. 1957.

Young Technician December, 1957

 

This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space race.

Young Technician. December, 1957.

Santa's Rocket Sleigh (1957)

Merry Christmas from Dreams of Space! Here is an oldie but a goodie: Santa's Rocket Sleigh. It actually does not have that much space content but it is very seasonal and I love the cover.

The story is really around the idea that the reindeer thinks there must be a better way to deliver toys. Santa assigns one of his elves to come up with a solution.

Santa's Rocket Sleigh. By Florence Storch. Illustrated by Elizabeth Webbe. Chicago : Rand McNally. 1957

 And just in case you have been looking for a slightly different seasonal song, here is one from the back of the book.

Farms of the Future (1957)

 

This is my 700th post and I have a treat for you.

I found a Farms of the Future calendar for 1957. These were distributed by the Shell Chemical Company.  I blogged about Your 1958 Shell Fertilizer Coloring Book here 3 years ago on Dec 22, 2017 but the illustrations were in black and white.

https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2017/12/your-1958-shell-fertilizer-coloring.html.

I think they did these incredible space-age calendars for several years. The full color illustrations by Don Bloodgood and Forrest Shaffer of a future that never came are wonderful. While not intended for children, they have a child-like character to them. Each month has a "scientific" description of how this future might be possible. 

Between robot farm workers, arctic farms, and radioactively accelerated seeds maybe we are lucky we are not living in THAT future😖