Sugar Jets Cereal (1954)

 

Sugar Jets Cereal! More sugar than your body needs in easy bite-sized bits.

Sugar Jets cereal was introduced in 1953, but here is a 1954 box. Its mascot for years was Major Jet. I have collected a bunch of ads, premiums, and comic strips about this cereal since I loved the "space age" design. So here is my collection so far.

I do have to recommend this 1958 Sugar Jets commercial for its space age appeal and the commercial for the Lindberg Space Station model you could send away for.

Sugar Jets - Your Breakfast for Tomorrow (1958 Commercial)

https://youtu.be/MHGhW4hPXcs?si=P6-8-Bb2ulcJzScQ

Back of the cereal box:

Some advertisements of the time

A giveaway premium: Major Jet's Rocket-Glider

Major Jet's Magic Googles

Next is Major's Jet's Magic Paint Set. I had blogged about these cereal premiums back in 2013.

"Yes, the universe of tomorrow may seem as small as the world of today!"

Finally here is some of the advertisements/comic strips that used to appear in the Sunday comics.

Thank goodness for Major Jet and his Jet Helicopter!

Mournful Mouse and the Space Trip (1963)

 

I am not really scraping the bottom of the barrel as much as taking the time to post the most obscure stuff in my space book collection. I collected almost any pre 1980 children's book about spaceflight. I preferred the non-fiction but picked up some strange fiction and comics along the way. (Giant carrots from the Moon anyone?)

So Mournful Mouse and The Space Trip is part of a series of books. This was the only one about rockets or space. It was the author's self-published effort. The two sizes of type on each page are odd. It seems (to our modern eyes) THAT THE OTHER VOICE IS YELLING.

A simple story: a mouse boy finds a sky rocket, accidently gets launched to the Moon, and makes it home for the picnic (with a stomach-ache.)

I do not understand the Mournful Mouse character either.

Schmock, Helen H. Illustrated by Schmock, Helen H. Mournful and The Space Trip. (The Adventures of Mournful Mouse, Book 3.) Ludington, MI: J & H Publishing. (16 p.) 1963.