To start off we need to fly before we can "rocket" so here is a Disney comic based on their "Man in Flight" documentary.
It was an episode on the Disneyland television show. It aired on March 6, 1957.
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Man_in_Flight
It was released also as a comic book: 1957, Dell no.836. (Yes I know this is a pretty beat-up copy)
It was also converted into a school text, (which I blogged about here: http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2016/09/man-in-flight-1959.html )
Most of it (obviously) is about the story of airplanes and flight. But as part of the series it showed how aerospace exploration was leading to jets and rockets in the near future. This front page makes it explicit:
Since the style of the film mixed animation with real life, the style of illustrations also cahge panel to panel and page to page.
"But eyes are still on tomorrow..."
And a lovely final panel. More Disney in space next week!
Happy"blogiversary" to me!
This is beginning my 8th year of blogging about these space books. In the next month or 2 (according to Blogger stats) I will be up to 1 million pageviews! Currently I am at around 980,000 but usually get around 15-20 thousand pageviews per month.
Google Analytics may be more realistic (currently
186,836 users have had 507,322 pageviews) so I just missed celebrating the 500,000 mark 😎
I will be sharing some "Disney in space" stuff this month to celebrate.
Thanks for the comments and the continued interest. I am really happy to know there are others out there who find this stuff amazing.
A very simple and short posting but one with history!
Lowe's Punch-out and Coloring Models: PT Boat, Space Craft, and Six-shooter Toy revolver (1963). James and Jonathan, Inc. 6 pp. "2219" is the third in a chain of punch-out and coloring books "recycling" the "boy with rocket" illustration and the punch-out rocket model itself. Check out below:
First is this one: TV Space Riders Coloring Book (1952)
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2014/04/tv-space-riders-coloring-book-1952.html
or was this first? Zedo Into Space (1952) which also included the same rocket:
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/03/zedo-into-space-1952.html
Another of those non-fiction children's books that everyone seemed to have but most are forgotten:
I, like many, subscribed (via my parents) to the "Life Science Library". These arrived about every other month with a wonderful new science book written at a very general level.
These were nicely illustrated and almost authoritative enough to use as a source for my grade school reports.
This one was originally published in English in 1964 and updated in 1969. But what I am sharing is the 1969 edition that was translated to Hebrew and published in 1970. Since I mostly post the illustrations, I wanted to share how these books were world-wide in their impact.
Just to help orient you here is the English table of contents:
But as I said here are a few of the wonderful and nostalgic illustrations:
They started with explaining the concept of staging rockets.
A nice cross-section of a V-2 type of rocket
Illustration of the Nova rocket program and possible capsule configuration
Showing how satellites were used to to explore the planets and how the photographic data was transmitten back and converted by computers.
A nice history of space suit concepts
An excellent cross-section of an Apollo suit.
The next stage in space?
The books also had illustrations at the side of the text. Here are a few of my favorites including what life on other planets might be like based on conditions found there.
On a visit to the stars (1967). 16 pg. Size: 21cm x 27.4 cm.
From the seller who said: "The story of the cosmonaut German Titov for the little ones."
I dig the beautiful illustrations and love the color choices. I enjoy finding these ephermeral books (especially these old paperbacks).
These double page spreads are hard to share, so I have cut some in half so you can see them better.
I really like this final spread of pages! Happy 2017!
