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Six Days on Luna One (1965) Part 2
To continue with this fantastic space art book from 1965. Above is the 1963 Hungarian cover. I have...
a week ago
To continue with this fantastic space art book from 1965. Above is the 1963 Hungarian cover. I have not been able to find the book yet. There is so much here I run out of comments.
This is a translation into Russian of a 1963 Czech book. The 1963 book's title was:
Šest dnů na...
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Quick's Flying Saucers and Rocket Ships (1953)
A couple of rare (ish) punch-out books from 1953. I had tried to find copies for a while but finally...
1st Aug 2026
A couple of rare (ish) punch-out books from 1953. I had tried to find copies for a while but finally it cam together. I really like the space graphics and the space helmet on the back. I also want my own "Robot Man" mask to wear. Lots of cool space toys.
Jones, Jim and Virdone,...
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Buster Brown Goes to Mars (1958)
This comic is a promotional comic from Buster Brown shoes. If you went into a shoe store and tried...
3rd Jul 2026
This comic is a promotional comic from Buster Brown shoes. If you went into a shoe store and tried on Buster Brown shoes you would get a comic book with the name of the store stamped/printed on it. Buster Brown (and his dog Tag) were a feature of 1950s and 1960s shoe store. In...
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Captain Ray-O-Vac’s Adventure and Game Book (1952)
Sorry for the sporadic postings, I should have some lined up for the next couple of months. Mostly...
19th Jun 2026
Sorry for the sporadic postings, I should have some lined up for the next couple of months. Mostly there will be comic book premiums and punch out books.
To start how about "Flashlights in Space...!" This was a comic premium from Ray-O-Vac batteries company. There was not much...
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True Comics, December 1948. (“Rocket Trip to the Moon” )
Something old about a trip to the Moon. Celebrating trying another trip to the Moon here is a...
10th Apr 2026
Something old about a trip to the Moon. Celebrating trying another trip to the Moon here is a non-fiction story from 1948. Stuck in an obscure comic book it tells the story of spaceflight to come.
True Comics. No. 80, December 1948. (“Rocket Trip to the Moon” p. 10-15.) Chicago:...
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My Weekly Reader 1958-1959
March 3, 1958
Happy New Year's! I picked up a set of My Weekly Reader so I thought I would share...
1st Jan 2026
March 3, 1958
Happy New Year's! I picked up a set of My Weekly Reader so I thought I would share some with you as I have a chance to scan them. Some of these are from My Weekly Reader Picture Reader. This was the version for 1st graders. The next is from the My Weekly reader...
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Spacewalks: Poems for the Moon Age (1971)
So to keep up with my strange postings, today is strange (bad?) space poetry. I like the drawings...
5th Dec 2025
So to keep up with my strange postings, today is strange (bad?) space poetry. I like the drawings that are VERY late 60s with spacecraft and other images mixed together. I also like his approach to using our Space Race as an inspiration to think about what people had done and...
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To The Moon By Rocket Ship (1940)
A bit of obscure ephemera today. In 1940 the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia had a program they...
8th Nov 2025
A bit of obscure ephemera today. In 1940 the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia had a program they called "To the Moon by Rocket Ship." It was a program for adults and children describing the science of what it would be like to go to the Moon. It also explored the formation of...
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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...
11th Oct 2025
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...
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Babar's Moon Trip (1968)
Babar's Moon Trip was a pop-up book I had never come across before. It seems influenced a little by...
13th Sep 2025
Babar's Moon Trip was a pop-up book I had never come across before. It seems influenced a little by the space race and the American efforts to get to the Moon.
They face problems like: not achieving escape velocity for the Moon, failure of stage separation, failure to adjust...
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