SPACE FAMILY ROBINSON Gold Key and extras info guide
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON
ISSUE:
1
DATE:
December 1962
TITLE:
THE CHALLENGE OF GORKO
COVER:
Creatures from other worlds peril the crew of Earth's first space station!
ALIEN:
The Gorko!
BACKUP
STORY: SPACE FAMILY ROBINSON-RESCUE ON ASTEROID 48
Narration
to RESCUE ON ASTEROID 48: High above an asteroid belt, thousands of miles from their space station home, Tim and Tam Robinson search the skies for a missing
space probe rocketship from earth...
NOTE:
June looks very old with gray hair; Craig has gray hair on the sides near his ears, looks very old; the
kids look very young. They do not appear
to be lost in space at all. In fact, they
find missing astronauts held prisoner underground in caves by red clay sub-humans and help them get away.
SPACE
DANGERS: A galactic mass hits the airless asteroid.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON
ISSUE:
2
DATE:
March 1963
TITLE:
LOST IN SPACE
COVER:
LOST IN SPACE, the Robinsons struggle to survive the hazards of the universe!
NARRATION:
In the outer regions of the solar system where the Robinson family operate Earth's first space station, a violent cosmic explosion rocks their experimental
home...
NOTES:
Craig and June are drawn much older; Craig has some gray or white in his hair here; Tim and Tam are
drawn much younger and look like they
are 11 and 12; Earth control has a white haired man who relates bad news. Silvery gray space suits. Later in the story, Craig wears a T-shirt;
LANGUAGE
BARRIERS: Notice that the space family either use maxi or mini language translators; sometimes when
they encounter alien races, the races
use telepathy, know English already, or have their
own method of translating and communicating;
SPACE
DANGERS: SS1 heads at a fiery star;
LIFE
FORMS: A giant mosquito attacks Lonas's home planet Syltron
ENEMIES:
Dr. Argo and Creta and her lizard women guards are all lizard humanoids--who want to DISSECT Tim and Tam in an underground lab.
ALLIES:
Survivor of Argo's experiments who escaped--Lonas of planet Syltron who came to Argo's planet six
months ago. Skinny body, bald
elongated head, small eyes and nose, one rounded foot like DOCTOR WHO's THE SENSORITES. He is extremely tiny.
WRITTEN
INFO: (from the front cover): SpaceMobile--launched from their space station home, The Robinson's
"family car," the space mobile of supersonic speed, is used
by young Tim and Tam Robinson for
space explorations. Two identical spacemobiles are
housed aboard the space station. One can be fired from a stabilizer, while the second one enters the
opposite side. Mounted on top of the
control panel is a "space language"
translation machine. The tele
screen gives the pilot a close up view
of his destination. The storage area, between the engine and the pilot's compartment, contains space helmets, food, clothing, a small machine shop, and space
tools. Four landing rockets and three
retractable legs, mounted on the underside
of the spacemobile, allow the craft to land gently on rough terrain. (from the back cover): Space Station: Taking time out from their scientific duties aboard
Earth's first space station, the
Robinson family enjoy the pleasures of their
sun deck and garden. The hydraulic conveyance in the spacemobile garage functions automatically. It "lifts" incoming spacemobile aboard and then
positions it for launching. Supply
rockets, sent up from Earth, are scooped up by
a magnetic, movable hatch. Moving at great speeds, split second timing is required for the rocket
rendezvous. In the observatory-lab,
scientists June and Craig Robinson study the mysteries
of space, chart new galaxies, and record space data for our planet, Earth. June Robinson, in the ultra modern kitchen, holds a roast that cooks instantly
by electronics. Most meals are prepared
by the mere push of a button. The recreation
room contains screens for TV and Movie viewing, games, and exercise equipment. Earth's first space station is truly a "home" away from home.
QUOTES:
CONTROL
MAN: "Gentlemen...the results are positive. Earth Station Number One is
Lost in Space! There is nothing we can do! If there
is a solution, the answer is out there...with the Robinsons."
ALIEN LONAS: "These giants are from
Earth!"
TIM: Poppin' planets! We're probably using
up a month's supply of their food in one sitting!
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON
ISSUE:
3
DATE:
June 1963
TITLE:
PERIL ON PLANET ZERO
COVER:
A thought-control machine leads the Robinsons to PERIL ON PLANET ZERO!
NARRATION:
Earth's first manned space station, its gyro control broken, drifts aimlessly...millions of miles from its own solar system...Lost in space, the Robinson
family works around the clock in an
attempt to repair the radio scanner for Earth contact...then,
one afternoon...
LOCATION:
Two million miles from Earth's solar system.
CIRCUMSTANCES:
The Robinsons make contact with Earth who send out a rescue team of two ships.
PLANET:
Raynoid---a planet that the ice planet wants to raid
LIFE
FORMS: white snow men like guards; a flat mouthed hairy faced alien--Doctor Krangak who uses ice men to
get Tim and Tam; Krangak uses a
thought control device on Tim and Tam; he wants the designer of the defense ray on Raynoid;
OF
NOTE: Exploratory vehicle is numbered 718. Tim, Tam, and a scientist from Raynoid rescue Craig who has
made his own brand of mischief for
the ice men on planet zero. Dr. Krangak falls into
his own machine and is zapped by it. Tim and Tam use Krangak's own rocket to scorch the area the ice men are in...but Craig nearly gets burned, too!
Several days pass between the time the
Earth contact is made and Tim and Tam take
off in a space mobile to explore.
INSPIRED:
GUN ON ICE PLANET ZERO on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and perhaps FLAMING ICE on VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON
ISSUE:
4
DATE:
September 1963
TITLE:
PREHISTORIC PLANET
COVER:
Captured by cave men on a primitive planet, the Robinsons must battle a prehistoric beast to escape!
NARRATION:
(text version from BRITISH ANNUAL) Lost and adrift in space, their gyro control, damaged beyond repair, the inhabitants of Earth's first space station
anxiously awaited word from Earth
Control...
CIRCUMSTANCES:
A rocket carrier with repair parts is on its way. It lands on a planet after the whole of space blossomed into blinding red flame and the Robinsons go after
it. The explosions, cosmic and
unknown ripped across the heavens, downing
the repair rocket. The Robinsons go after it to the planet.
LIFE
FORMS: Cavemen, bird like half dragon, half bird; Clancy gets lost; a Tyrannosaurus Rex which the cavemen
call the Kaska;
The cavemen also worship the golden rocket.
NARRATION:
Was June Robinson being hopeful or were they destined for many more strange and weird adventures in the wilderness of the universe before once more they saw the
familiar sights of the Sun and Moon, of
Venus, Mars, and Jupiter and the rest. They
would be a wonderful sight indeed, after having been lost in space for so long.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON
ISSUE:
5
DATE:
December 1963
TITLE:
THE MIST OF DELUSION
COVER:
A fantastic mirage, a space giant, unworldly creatures-all confront the Robinsons in THE MIST OF
DELUSION!
NARRATION:
Across the far reaches of outer space the Robinsons are still striving to bring Earth's first manned space station back to its own solar system...back from
adventures beyond belief!
SPACE
DANGERS: Space ice cloud of mist; the Robinsons encounter illusions like being back on Earth--a
deserted Earth,
LIFE
FORMS?: a giant alien 20 feet tall, smaller blob like goblin like aliens called Trogs; jungle is the
source of the space mist; Tim sets
the jungle on fire;
ALLIES:
Ptor-Liom from planet Pondra-20 foot giant who can communicate by thoughts; Ptor-Liom is stranded on this planet of mist; June relays a message to his planet.
GEAR:
Language translator headsets (there are also mini translators); Tim uses an alien anti gravity rifle gun on the Trogs, killing them as they float into
space; Tim notes this gun looked like
one used by the blue people in the planet Orious--a
kind of immobilizing ray gun; Pondran Patrol Ship is still smaller than SS1 even though the Patrol Ship holds giants;
NOTE:
Similar to FLIGHT INTO THE FUTURE?
CLOSING
NARRATION: The Robinsons are hopeful of reaching their destination, but what lies ahead of them, as they travel through the vast, unknown sky, no one knows.
SPACE
FAMILY ANNUAL: This tale appears as a text story. Illustrations which follow the tale and the other text stories are different, very different from the comic
versions. The Trogs look very
different, blobbier and red on the bottom and green
throughout but more on top. Tim's spacesuit is yellow for most of the annual, cover and interior art. The inner cover wrap around seems to come from THE PIT OF
DOOM.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON
ISSUE:
6
DATE:
February 1962
TITLE:
THE DUPLICATES
COVER:
A ruthless outcast with a fantastic duplicating machine captures Tim Robinson and creates an army for the conquest of space!
NARRATION:
(Text version) This was a shower of asteroids whose presence was not recorded in any of the astrogation charts or astronomical tables that Craig Robinson had
ever studied. Of varying sizes and
thousands upon thousands in number, they were
a complete mystery to the Robinson family travelling in their great space station, torn adrift from its orbit as Earth Space Station One to hurtle endlessly
through the uncharted cosmos always
searching hopefully for the Solar System they had
left so far behind them. (Yes, that second sentence is a run on!)
ALIENS:
Zytroxians-green faces, pushes out mouths--one is called Zurko, another Kug and another Elg; these
three were banished by the peaceful
Zytroxians five years ago to this planet; Zurko
uses Tim and Spacemobile duplicates to attack and take over the planet Zytrox; The Robinsons stop Zurko;
ALLIES:
Freedom fighters against Zurko are Aila and her father Tytro, leader of the freedom fighters in abandoned subway workings. Nerkim, another;
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON
ISSUE:
7
DATE:
April 1964
TITLE:
THE DANGEROUS JOURNEY
COVER:
Jet-men and a fierce fire monster confront Tim and Tam Robinson in THE DANGEROUS JOURNEY!
NARRATION:
In the vast reaches of outer space, millions of miles from its own solar system, Earth's first manned space station, carrying the Robinson family, moves across
uncharted territory...
SPACE
DANGERS: SS1 almost hits a planet--called Petra.
PLANET:
June and Craig find petrified plants, animals, and alien people--all like stone, then become stone
themselves!
ALLIES:
Arlak from the planet Ixion ruled by evil Kovar. Jatro; aliens dress like court jesters but are handsome and pretty accordingly; Zia--who was to be wedded to
Kovar by force; note when Arlak saves
Zia from the jet-men in the mountain power station,
he looks rather like a much older man than before.
ENEMIES:
Kovar who used a Petra Ray from the mountain on Ixion to keep everything on Petra--including those
who defy him like Arlak---stone. He
and his jet men are killed when Arlak and Tim
blow up the Petra Ray complex after saving Zia.
LIFE
FORMS: a reddish swamp creature like a giant fly-praying mantis-spider! It got Tam for a bit. Also-a 3
mouthed fire breathing dragon with webbed
toes and a reddish color. Tim uses an
explo-pack on it. The area that Arlak, Tim, and Tam encounter it looks a great deal like the TV ROBINSON'S LOST IN SPACE SECOND SEASON PLANET.
CLOSING
NARRATION: Soon after, the Earth space station hurtles on through the unknown...(Tim: We all had a
petrifying experience).
QUOTE:
Kovar: "Attention all jet-men of Ixion! Search out and destroy Arlak and the aliens! Crush them at all
costs!"
BACKUP
STRIP: CAPT. VENTURE-THE MYSTERY PLANET-Scotty and Rex Venture appear naked from the waist up this time.
NOTE:
Still only 12 cents! Pin ups continued.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON
ISSUE:
8
DATE:
June 1964
TITLE:
PERIL ON PLANET 4
COVER:
Searching for their own solar system, the Robinsons find themselves in another dimension, facing new
dangers!
LIFE
FORMS: Giant flying beaked nosed birds. alien saucers, bird monster gets a hold of Tam.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON
ISSUE:
9
DATE:
August 1964
TITLE:
THE CREEPING GREENS
COVER:
A power failure aboard their space station forces the Robinsons to land on a planet inhabited by fierce man eating Klobops!
LIFE
FORMS: Many eyed alien Klobops, plant-tree like; flying manta like creatures.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON
ISSUE:
10
DATE:
October 1964
TITLE:
CAPTIVE PLANET
COVER:
Tim and Tam Robinson seek help for their injured father in a city ruled by sinister metal-headed men!
NARRATION:
Lost in the wilderness of outer space, millions of miles from Earth's solar system, the Robinsons'
space station is bombarded by a
meteorite shower...
NOTES:
Extra heavy duty purple-silver-gray spacesuits with clear square head piece. Tim mentions a Dr.
Connell on Earth. No wrap around pin
up.
PLANET:
Kregara: domes with buildings shielding green people from poisonous atmosphere. Green people have
glinted yellow eyes.
ENEMIES:
The Great Kregar--green faced, long red hair and wearing a hat with two antenna. He will not allow
anyone who comes close to leave. Tim and
Tam, searching for help for Craig--who was
injured by a small meteor fragment in space as he and Tim repaired damages, are put into hypno sleep.
In the LOGAN'S RUN type city, Tim fakes
he is brainwashed and brought to Dr. Adamo.
Kregar and his council are kept alive by Substance K for 200 years. The Hypno Tranced used aliens.
ALLIES:
Dr. Adamo, a green faced man who helps Tim and Tam. He assigns Tim to an Chemico Lab and Tim destroys the Energy Dome. Kregar and his men age and die,
turning into skeletons. CLOSING
NARRATION: Tim approaches the space station. A dangerous crisis is over...and only time will tell
what new and awesome adventures still
lie ahead in the unexplored wilderness of outer
space...
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON
ISSUE:
11
DATE:
December 1964
TITLE:
OPERATION RESCUE
COVER:
The Robinsons join forces with bat-winged men to battle poison-spouting creatures from space!
NARRATION:
The Earth's space station, operated by the Robinson family, has become lost in space. Hunting for some clue to guide it home, it suddenly picks up a
startling signal...
LIFE
FORMS: Bat winged men, a giant mutant like alien tiger beast with tusks is speared by the bat men;
fierce insects hunt in the forest; Akoril
is the eldest son of the honorable Ilikru, mayor
of the city and his wife is Aneeka; the planet's air affects humans from earth and makes them see illusions (ho hum); a ship from Earth is here, abandoned;
a netting canopy over the bat men and
women (called the CHIROPT) city keeps out insects;
PLANETS:
The bat men and women planet; in the same system is a colder planet; on the ice snow planet, the Robinsons find men from Earth;
ALLIES:
Akoril, Aneeka; men from Earth--Capt. Morrow and men passed through a very large dark nebula of cosmic
dust and some of it was highly
radioactive and affected the ship's log--the way to Earth may have been obscured.
OF
INTEREST: Morrow mentions there is not much wild country left now on the planet Earth. The Robinsons use the
log to start on their way home as does
Capt. Morrow in his rocket. Why can't they
all go on Space Station One? Pin Up wrap around covers continued.
CLOSING
NARRATION: The Robinsons, with hope in their hearts, speed toward their space station, anxious to
start their homeward journey...undaunted
by the fact that they are more than a million
miles from that speck in the universe called EARTH.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON ANNUAL: This story appeared in text form in the annual from England.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON
ISSUE:
12
DATE:
April 1965
TITLE:
THE IRON DWARFS
COVER:
Escaping to an underground cavern for safety, Craig and Tam Robinson find greater peril in the trap of
the IRON DWARFS!
NARRATION:
Lost in space, the earth made laboratory station, manned by the Robinson family, continues on a
hopefully charted star path...
SPACE
DANGERS: a vast cloud of cosmic dust; a giant sun in constellation 1327 grows and is about to take in SS2;
PLANET:
the planet's weight compared to its size is much greater than Earth's; rocks of heavy iron; a
meteorite shower sends Tam and Craig
into a cave;
LIFE
FORMS: Metallic cords;
ENEMIES:
Small but very strong and stout rotund blue aliens-- language: Kunakka, guma Bakokkin; have great specific gravity
ALLIES:
Lacare--alien from here named Aylorie uses invisibility to rescue Tam and Craig; a collision doomed
planet brought the Iron Dwarfs and
fragments from their blasted planet to this planet;
man uses thought telepathy and a levitation belt; Captain Alacru; Osala; Lacareen aliens;
QUOTE:
June: "Craig, I'm scared! We're in the power of creatures who will have no more mercy on us than if
we were insects!"
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON
ISSUE:
13
DATE:
July 1965
TITLE:
THE PIT OF DOOM
COVER:
On a fiery cloud in space, June and Craig Robinson risk their lives to save their son from THE PIT OF DOOM!
NARRATION:
After feeling their way by radar through a strange planet's thick cloud cover, the Robinsons have landed their space station in the middle of lush but
menacing life forms... LIFE FORMS: Lots! Thick jungles of flying insectoids,
mammals, beetles with horns of steel
which can change shape; many evil imitations
of Tim and Tam; kangaroo like mammals; moving vines;
small islands in the sky with vines that can be dropped
ALLIES:
Dalak (yes, Dalak), leader of those above, living on the sky islands; descended from tree top dwelling
peoples; Upok, Matil, Olto; eat fruit
from the trees; call the beetles the Oplops;
and have fire warriors. Give Robinsons fruit. Dalak's people call the world below "the Old World." Dalak's people are short, use circular bows to fire fire arrows, and have three fingers--the middle one is bigger and
continually up. Live in huts.
FEATURE:
"Space-Age Apparel": Tam has a soil proof metallic fiber which sheds dirt and moisture. When there's
time for relaxing (?), she slips into
comfortable clothes. On special occasions Tam
wears a sheer overshirt and cape with her tapered capris. Tim wears a well equipped spacesuit which
protects him from radiation and extreme
temperatures. Tim is ready to brave the
cold in thermal one piece suit. It keeps a constant temperature and is ideal for skiing whenever the Robinsons find a snowy planet (has a clear
visor).
WRITTEN
INFO: Craig was given a log tape in OPERATION RESCUE by Capt. Morrow. Morrow's rocket passed through a highly radioactive section of cosmic dust and part
of the tape was destroyed. The
Robinsons might manage to reach a part of space that matches the log. They have atmosphere indicators in the space mobiles. As long as the Space Station
remains intact, it is always possible
the Robinsons will one day find their way back
to Earth. If they do return, it would not mean the end of the series, for there would be adventures
on Earth before taking off again in
the space station...and they would take off
again. As citizens of our planet, they would enjoy spending time again on Earth but as dedicated space scientists, June and Craig feel quite at home
in their space station and out among
the stars. Spacemobiles use advanced rocket
fuel, the motors are small but numerous and are equipped with devices that return the exhaust to the motor again for refiring. The quantity of fuel
used is small.
QUOTE:
Tim: "Dad, I thought I saw fruit trees! Maybe we can dicker with the natives!"
SPACE
FAMILY ANNUAL: This story appeared in the annual in comic form.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON
ISSUE:
14
DATE:
October 1965
TITLE:
STAR-TRAPPED
COVER:
The Robinsons struggle to escape a planet whose sun showers death-dealing rays!
NARRATION:
Adrift in space and long out of touch with Earth, the Robinson family in their space station have a fresh cause for anxiety...
SPACE
DANGERS: Gravitational fields of a star cluster slow down the Space Station; the family abandon the SS1
and try to find a suitable planet to
live on for the rest of their lives. 2 days later,
they find the yellow dwarf star has a fourth planet that is habitable; the third is too hot and farther ones are gas giants; planet has thin air, little water,
fuel almost gone, they sight a city--a
space port to land on;
LIFE
FORMS: Small green like people once lived on this planet; they moved their whole planet; flying platforms
appear; many of the people took off
from the planet---the new sun made them turn old;
a few did not make it off;
CIRCUMSTANCES:
The Robinsons begin to age rapidly; using the devices
left on the unfinished ship and the city, they manage to break free of the planet and back to the Space Station and break it free of the pull. All de-age back
to their normal age.
CLOSING
NARRATION: The Great Space Station moves on into the unknown, and the family aboard are not concerned at the moment about where they are heading-they are
just happy to be together...and alive.
WRITTEN
INFO: Tim and Tam go to school about ten minutes each month--a special device like a tv set flashes events by as they are put into a hypnotic state. The
approximate date of the adventures of the
Robinsons is 2000. Tim is 16, Tam is 15. SPACE FAMILY ANNUAL: This tale
appeared in text form.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
15
DATE:
January 1966
TITLE:
MENACE OF THE METAL EATERS
ART:
Dan Spiegle
COVER:
The Robinsons battle indestructible beasts n MENACE OF THE METAL EATERS.
NARRATION:
Lost in limitless space, the Robinsons patiently try every means to find the way back to their own solar system.
SPACE
STATION NOTES: Spectrograph in use. Meteorite warning radar, meteorite repulsion fields.
PLANET:
Altair--has only one city; cosmic radiation has affected the water and plant life.
LIFE
FORMS: Giant Metal Monsters which eat metal; Altairians--slits for eyes, big heads, small bodies and
noses;
ALLIES:
Voltan and people-are helped to leave their dying planet.
ENEMIES:
Endro and his rebel faction
ADDITIONAL
NOTES: Craig and June have located the light from Earth's sun while Endro holds Tim and Tam. Craig knows judo. Tim uses a Somni ray gun. A big meteor gets
through and the station has to be
moved. The metal monsters who eat metal are destroyed
by water vapor. Craig gives the aliens metal to leave their planet. Craig is drawn like Guy Williams, even in a green outfit. Tam looks a bit more like
Angela Cartwright. WRITTEN INFO: Tim is
16, Tam is 15, June is 39, Craig is 41.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
16
DATE:
April 1966
TITLE:
PRISONERS OF SPACE
COVER:
The Robinsons live a nightmare as space prisoners change their shapes and take over the space
station! (in the reprint of this issue,
issue 56 the cover says--the Robinsons live a nightmare
as space prisoners change their shapes and take over the space stationS!)
NARRATION:
The Space Station, manned by the scientists Craig and June Robinson, and their teen-age son and daughter, has broken loose from its Earth orbit and is now
adrift in trackless space...
ALIENS:
Aliens---from Kormat--with four arms, slit eyes and noses, white and blue, with four webbed
toes--versus--formless giant bipeds
with seemingly orange hair and mean faces-Dreephars from a dense atmosphere--in the air of the SS1 they are weak due to being oxygen starved. The Kormat aliens
force the Robinsons to use SS1 as a
transport for their prisoner Dreephars.
The Dreephars find the emergency oxygen tanks. The Dreephars change into formless blobs, making the others think they are dead. The alien Dreephars take over
the station and kill the two guards
using a change wrought on by a drink they made.
June and Tim with Clancy and Yakker hide in a spacesuit closet. Tam and Craig get away in the space mobile.
CLOTHES:
Tam wears something like Emma Peel from THE AVENGERS.
PLANET
FALL: Kormat. Craig and Tam go to it while June, Clancy, Yakker, and Tim avoid the Dreephars who
change back to their natural state.
Kormat launches a fast cruiser which can catch up
to the SS1 before it lands on the planet of the Dreephars. Small red planet whose metal content could
hide the SS1 from the cruiser but Craig
picks up June on the radio. June and Tim hide
in the space mobile, drain the air from the ship, killing the Dreephars, and also planned to blast out
of the hangar, which could have damaged
the SS1.
QUOTE:
Alien Kormat: Interesting those people from planet Earth...friendly..quite intelligent but such strange looking beings..almost unbelievable!
Tam: Eeeeee! Dad!
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
17
DATE:
July 1966
TITLE:
RIVER OF FIRE
COVER:
Giant flying creatures attack the Robinsons above the deadly RIVER OF FIRE!
COVER
ARTIST: George Wilson
NARRATION:
The Earth's first space station has been pierced by a meteorite and forced to land on a strange planet at the edge of a mighty canyon...
PLANET:
Earthquakes! Lava flow at SS1! Craig and Tim wear colorful T-shirts. June wears a sleeveless shirt
top;
LIFE
FORMS: Cultivated fields and farmers; green alien farmers; Giant flying creatures that take on the
color of the fields they land on; four
balls of light--fire balls--visitors from a
distant sun are called Dynamins and help the Robinsons since they protected other forms of life.
ALLIES:
The green men, one named Kitan have built an underground city by cultivating a plant whose sap hardens
into any mold-- floors, walls,
furniture; the Dynamins who didn't tell the Robinsons
their space station wasn't destroyed by the lava flow who wanted to watch how the family treated the green farmers but who helped the family a bit and
repaired the magnetic drive on the Space
Station;
ENEMIES:
the bird-manta like flying monsters called the Ma-ak who try to dig through to the underground city and
spread poison fumes. The green men build
a tunnel to the Space Mobiles, the family
must venture through the poisoned tunnels to their space mobiles and burn the mantas with their rockets. A manta sting gets into Tim and Tam's space mobile
but the use the helmets to breath as
poison fumes come in from the stinger. The
Mantas head for a lake which June thinks is an inland sea. NOTE: Years later in 1983 or so, GALAXY
EXPRESS, an excellent Japanese
animated series used a very similar story, all but more serious and thematic to that overall series than it is here. Also note the 1995 series HYPERNAUTS
had a story about peaceful manta like
flyers who were trying to save a volcanic planet.
SPACE ACADEMY's first episode (introducing the semi- green-brown Loki) had light forces which protected less advanced life forms.
WRITTEN
INFO: The Robinsons were selected by computer as the family most mentally and physically qualified to
man the space station. The Robinsons
were making experiments in the outer regions
of our solar system when the space station was suddenly
rocked by violent cosmic explosions. Its controls damaged, the space station was hurled at tremendous speed deep into space and all contact with Earth was
lost (not entirely true). The garden on
the sun deck supplies all the fresh fruit and
vegetables. There is a supply of other preserved food aboard, brought with them form Earth. Rain that falls on the space station is trapped and routed into
tanks where it is purified for
drinking. Fuel is no problem for the station as it is powered by electro magnetic drive...and the equipment aboard produces rocket fuel for the space
mobiles. COVER ARTIST IS GEORGE WILSON
for all issue (!?).
QUOTE:
June: "Craig, they're all heading for that big lake-or is it an inland
sea?"
Craig:
"Perhaps they're amphibious!"
CAPT.
VENTURE: THE CAPTURE: Scotty: I'm just removing this laddie's wee sword!
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
18
DATE:
October 1966
TITLE:
SLEEP NO MORE, SIR THOMAS
COVER:
An emergency landing on a war-torn planet brings the Robinsons their strangest experience in space!
NARRATION:
Earth's first space station, by a strange mischance, has become lost in space-and now, after
bewildering adventures, its crew faces a new disaster...
SPACE
DANGERS: The recycling plant for air and food goes awry--the electrolyte leaked out and structural
stress showed a warping on the hull.
PLANETFALL:
A 4th planet with a bit more radiation than on Earth but not too dangerous. Trees, grass, a ruined, destroyed city. LIFE
FORMS: Alien bats inside an alien spaceship, alien tigers one of whom Thomas has to sword dead. Tam uses
Kol's gun on the other tiger inside the
Kol spaceship. Craig figures the tigers were
mutations. Vultures. One drops something--gee, I hope it was a rock!
ALLIES:
Sir Thomas Maldrane, Lady Alice, John Bowman, who were at a tourney at Sarum Town in the 12th Century
when large giant aliens landed in a
bird's egg-like spacecraft and took them away
850 years ago. Alan Fletcher, an arrow and bow man.
ALIEN:
Kol commander of spaceship Iklatal. His sleep machine wakes him when the family entered the vault. The
Robinsons accidentally awaken the
first, Thomas Maldane--June's ancestor who
fought for King Richard the Lionhearted! The giant aliens landed on this planet which had people that
wiped themselves out in a nuclear war.
To remain safe, until they could have help,
the giants put themselves and their 12th Century kidnap victims in suspended state using gas. Craig makes the alien an offer--show them how to get back to Earth
and he will allow the giant and his people
to repair the ship. Kol agrees, seeing
Craig's thoughts are honest. Kol gets sick from Maldane's cold. His system is different from our own.
TIME
FRAME: 2002 AD.
OF
INTEREST: The family show Thomas London of 2002, Castle Maldane has remained the same. This issue ends with a cliffhanger...only Kol knows the phase
astronomy and he lies recovering...he
may die from the virus.
WRITTEN
INFO: The Robinsons lived in Woodland Hills, a suburb of Los Angeles, California. Craig and June worked
as scientists in space technology
laboratories in the area before being selected
to command Space Station #1. The Robinsons don't really need robots to help with chores, for there is very little housework to do, as most everything is
done mechanically with built in
appliances. A robot smart enough to show
the Robinsons how to find their way back to Earth would be most useful. Unfortunately, they don't have the knowledge to build a robot that smart. The Space
Station's direction cannot be
controlled from the Spacemobiles. The Station can have pre-set directions enabling it to reach a destination without help from anyone on board. The
rocket fuel is made by machinery
aboard the Space Station. It is no so much advanced type fuel that gives the Space Mobiles such speed but the new type rocket motors which produce speed. The
materials covering SS1 and the
Spacemobiles are combinations of steel, plastic, and special chemicals. Instead of becoming red-hot when propelled at fantastic speeds through space, this
material through chemical reaction
becomes cool.
NOTE:
Frog aliens appear in CAPT. VENTURE-TRAPPED. SLEEP NO MORE SIR THOMAS became WHITMAN SPACE FAMILY
ROBINSON, aka at the bottom of the issue
credits ON SPACE STATION ONE, issue 58 with
MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER 4000 AD-JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE WORLD. The cover was almost exactly the same except the logo SPACE FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE was down at
an angle ala SPACE: 1999 type credits.
It was 60 cents as opposed to the 12 cents
for issue 18!
QUOTE:
Sir Thomas: Lady Robinson, this passeth understanding--but are
we no longer on Earth?
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
19
DATE:
December 1966
TITLE:
PLANET OF DOOM
COVER:
Tim and his friends face instant destruction from fierce robots on the PLANET OF DOOM!
NARRATION:
After landing their space station for repairs on an Earth like planet, the Robinsons found a damaged spaceship and a city devastated by nuclear war---but no
human life until...in an underground
vault they found the spaceship's strange,
giant humanids in suspended animation...forced underground
over 800 years before, when they landed their damaged
spaceship for repairs, only to discover the radiation too high to safely stay above ground. Likewise in suspended animation were fourteen men and women from
Earth--12th Century England, captured
for scientific study by the giant Iklatalians.
One of the Englishmen, Sir Thomas Maldane, oddly enough, turned out to be an ancestor of June Robinson. The Robinsons' entrance underground triggered the
awakening of the giants' commander,
Kol, who, after capturing the Robinsons, fell
victim to a virus from Earth. Disarmed, Kol promised to teach Craig the way back to Earth-and then lost consciousness. Now, he awakens...
TIME
FRAME: Kol gets better and helps contact Tim. A week passes...
ALLIES:
Maldane, Lady Helen, Elaine Desmond--Helen's niece, Squire Robert Decourcy--who enjoys a first shower,
Alan Fletcher, Sir Gilbert, Forsooth,
Kol's people depart for Iklatal but give the
phase settings to the Robinsons--the virus affected Kol's brain, preventing him from teaching the
Robinsons how to use and guide it,
totally.
ENEMIES:
robots, all that is left of a deep nuclear blast in a dead city
PLANET:
has a watery western hemisphere, a few islands, overgrown with vegetable mutants; all Iklatalians are
the same blood type and can use a
united telepathic wave search to locate Tim and
his group who were shot down by a guided missile--the Space Mobile has protective screens but was shot down;
NOTES:
Craig wears a strange one piece orange jumpsuit on the last page of the tale with a purple short cut
shirt over it! A frog alien, not
unlike the one is THE GOLDEN MAN of TV's LOST IN SPACE appears in the backup strip, CAPTAIN VENTURE-TEST FLIGHT. He is called Aquarian.
WRITTEN
INFO: Vegetable and fruit trees in the two glassed in sun decks are planted in synthetic earth and
watered with chemicals. The ripening
time and size of the fruits and vegetables
are all controlled by the turn of a valve to regulate
the flow and mixtures of the chemicals. Huge tanks filled with oxygen supply all rooms on the Space Station. A mechanical device refilters the used air and
restores it into the tanks. The Space
Station is 224 feet wide, the towers are each
158 feet tall, the thickness of the main section between towers is 40 feet. Clancy is 6 years old;
Yakker is 10; both pets were given to Tim
and Tam by their parents almost a year before
they left Earth.
CLOSING
NARRATION: As the great space station soars away, its passengers wonder what sensations they will experience as they prepare for the galactic shift--the
crossing of the space-time continuum.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
20
DATE:
February 1967
TITLE:
THE TIME TRAP
COVER:
The Robinsons fight a 12th Century battle when caught in THE TIME TRAP!
NARRATION:
The Robinson family, manning Earth's lost Space Station, has made brief contact with a giant race.
From this contact the space station has
acquired (1) some fellow castaways, kidnapped
by the giants from twelfth century England; and (2) an instrument which they hope will shift them back to their own galaxy...
CIRCUMSTANCES:
Space Station One shifts into a different time-space continuum where Craig sees Alpha Centauri. But landing on a planet, Earth, they find it is the year
1181 and Vikings are ready to attack
England's coast. This is four years after the giants
from space captured Sir Thomas Maldane of Old Sarum Town and his group. Leaving Sir Thomas off; Sir Thomas is reunited with his wife and baby; Tim and
Craig encounter a meteor storm in the space mobile. On the
planet, storms hit the Space Station,
which under the command of June, backed by Sir
Gilbert, must leave even though Tim and Craig have not returned. To return to them, Tim and Craig find their way out of the far future of 2463 and giant ants to
2004, a few months after SS1 has lifted
off. They then go back to lift off and find
SS1 fighting in an atmospheric storm. Several dangerous maneuvers later, all are reunited.
TIME
FRAME: Present Year-2004; a few months after SS1 lifts off; as SS1 lifts off; 1181; far future-2463
LIFE
FORMS: Knights; Timothy the Wainwright, John Turner the Innkeeper; giant ants
in the far future;
ALLIES:
Sir Thomas Maldane, Sir Gilbert Delancey, Squire Robert ENEMIES: Sir Guy Delatour, a Knight who
attacks Sir Maldrane's castle but is
driven away by the sight of the Space Mobiles.
NOTE: The phase drive was moved into the Space Mobile and then back into
Space Station One but a cell inside it is damaged by lightning.
WRITTEN
INFO: Forcefield turned on, creates an invisible magnetic field wall which repels objects. First
enemy in space was Gorko who planned
to freeze his neighboring planets. Space Station
One was assembled on the ground. This was possible due to the use of magnetic energy for its power system, enabling the huge Space Station to lift off the ground
and soar to fantastic speeds. The
Robinsons left Earth at 10:00 o'clock AM,
March 17th, 2001.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
21
DATE:
April 1967
TITLE:
OPERATION SURVIVAL!
COVER:
Fierce space savages force the Robinsons into OPERATION SURVIVAL!
NARRATION:
Lost among unfamiliar stars, Earth's first space station is intercepted by a strange space ship...
ALIENS:
Xotalec--dominant race of the star system--a race of large eyed, one eyed blue and red creatures--very
alien looking and with four legs and
star like feet; they take the Space Station,
leave the Robinson women, Craig, Clancy, Yakker, and the 12th Century English folk to a lush planet; Tim is on SS1;
ALLIES: John Bowman, eventually the Yorkeli; Sir Gilbert; The English men and women stay on the planet to
start a new life;
LIFE
FORMS: Deer with strange antlers; giant mushroom like plants, cherry trees; ripe fruit; goat like
creatures; Valkyrie on a strange
beast rides in; Viking hordes; Chief Skobald is defeated--peacefully but in battle and without killing--he joins up with them and merges his men and
people--the Yorkeli- -with them;
OF
INTEREST: The spaceship designs in this story are exceptional. One is a specimen catcher with metallic arms;
END
OF STORY ARC: The English men and women stay on the planet; The Robinsons, thanks to Tim, get the Space
Station back and phase shift out of
their solar system. The English and the Yorkeli build forts and weapons to use on the Xotalec.
WRITTEN
INFO: Tim and Tam miss the company of teenagers and the activities of the young people on Earth. Their constant adventures in space keep them from having
much time to feel too lonely. Unknown
number of miles traveled. The main telescope
on SS1 is a reflecting type. A small radio telescope and a spectroscope are also aboard. The space station is 224 feet wide; the towers are each 158 feet tall,
the thickness of the main section between
the towers is 40 feet. Tam is 15. Up to
6 issue per year instead of 4.
SOME
PLANETS VISITED: Orious, Syltron, Zero, Raynoid, Zytrox, Ixion, Klikag, Norica, Kregara, Altair, and
Kormat.
STRANGE
FACT: In back up strip CAPT. VENTURE-RETURN OF THE ENEMY, Venture and Scotty spend much time in their
underwear in and out of the water!
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
22
DATE:
June 1967
TITLE:
OPERATION TIME SHIFT
ART:
Dan Spiegle
COVER:
A crash landing traps the Robinsons in the depths of a strange and hostile sea...OPERATION TIME SHIFT!
NARRATION:
Lost in the vast reaches of the Milky Way, Earth's first space station encounters a new problem...
SPACE
DANGER: Super Nova; Earth is found out to be 1000 light years away. Magnetism of alien spaceship.
SPACE
STATION NOTES: Robinsons wear silver-gray spacesuits with visible visor helmets. Language translators
used. Plastic bladders used undersea
to get SS1 out. Scuba jets.
ALLIES:
Tisan, Chief Scientist; his wife Sunda, second; their voyage will take them 872 years in suspended animation;
ALIEN
LANGUAGE: Mana Luna means "I have one, too," referring to a language translator.
CIRCUMSTANCES:
Alien ship, friendly with aliens in suspended animation,
catches the Space Station in its magnetic drive. Aliens help Robinsons return to Earth-but a short in the phase shift causes SS1 to land in an alien sea.
Later, escaping the sea, they see two
moons in the sky.
PLANET:
Swordfish, two moons moving at different speeds, lighter gravity than Earth, smaller than
Earth,
CLIFFHANGER:
The Space Family find out they are on Mars but not Mars of their 21st Century but Mars of untold ages before man appeared on Earth. The Time Shift on the
phase machine went haywire. Mars
still has water and most of its atmosphere.
QUOTE:
"Then we're still a long way from home---lost in time, if not
in space."
WRITTEN
INFO: Robinsons met US Air Force rocket explorers in issue 1 and 11. They met 12th Century English folk in
issue 18. Tim is 16, Tam is 15. Besides
fruit and vegetable gardens on the Space
Station, the Robinsons, when they come to a planet that has wild game, restock their meat supply. A reserve supply of food pills that swell up to dinner size
meals when water is added are also
aboard for emergency use. Pluto is over 2 and half
billion miles from the sun. The Robinsons were exploring the outer regions of our solar system when a
series of violent cosmic explosions
damaged the SS's control system and sent it plunging
at fantastic speeds into deep space. They lost contact
with Earth and have been traveling through the distant reaches of space ever since.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
23
DATE:
August 1967
TITLE:
MENACE FROM URANUS (hey!)
COVER:
A forced landing! A fierce Golick! A fight for life! MENACE FROM URANUS! (hey! A fierce Go-lick? Uranus?)
NARRATION:
Owing to an accident to their time-shift mechanism, the space family Robinsons (yes plural in the original comic) have landed on Mars-not Mars as the 21st Century
knows it, but Mars of untold ages
ago, before it lost its atmosphere...
CIRCUMSTANCES:
Crash landed on Mars in the far past.
LIFE
FORMS: Rats, mice, rodents called Chessas who eat up the oases, hard shelled giant lizards called
Golicks ten feet tall and green with
tongues that capture prey.
ALLIES:
50 miles from SS1 is a city; a man in armor has arms like the TV LOST IN SPACE Robot; Sibanhu is a yellow
haired, yellow faced alien and they
have had recent space visitors before SS1--unfriendly
ones; the aliens are less heavy to Tim and Tam since
there is less gravity;
ENEMIES:
Ships from the 7th planet attack Mars with paralyzing gas; a giant sphere (like a giant TV LOST IN
SPACE Jupiter II with more legs) is
pure sodium metal and is five degrees below absolute
zero; aliens have one eye in their helmets and bulky red-purple like space suits; Tim drops water on the space saucer and starts a fire with the rockets
of his spacemobile-- the aliens flame up
and crash into a sea;
SPACE
STATION: Sun deck used as Craig and the Councilors of Mars agree to help each other.
GEAR:
Mars's people have nifty space helicopters.
MARS:
No open rivers, pipes and aqueducts bringing water from the polar ice caps to the oases. Giant meteor
craters. Under one is a powerful magnetic
pull which downs the copter Tam, Craig are
in with two aliens; they are attacked by a Golick--Craig hits it in the brain and kills it; Tim helps
the aliens perfect a weapon of liquid
fire and water to against the returning
Uranians; they destroy the next saucer;
NOTE:
An unusually violent issue with the heroes as well as the enemies causing death and destruction, even
in defense, harsh nature as the
Golick eats a Chessas;
WRITTEN
INFO: Craig weighs 196 pounds, June 128, Tim, 145, and Tam 110, Clancy 25, Yakker 5 and a half pounds;
Tim and Tam were not scientists but since
leaving Earth they have picked up much
scientific knowledge by observing and working with their parents (Oh boy!). Some PLANETS the Robinsons
have landed on: Orious, Syltron, Zero,
Raynoid, Zytrox, Ixion, Kliklag, Norica,
Kregara, Altair, and Kormat. The Robinsons are in the year 2004 and the Knight in the October issue left Earth in 1154. Each spacemobile is 25 feet long and 7
feet wide and each weights 1300 pounds.
Space Mobiles reuse their exhaust waste
for fuel and added power; the Space Station was selected after years of research to be the most
perfectly suited for a combination
home to house earth's first family to live in space
and scientific laboratory for exploring our solar system. The object in the dome is a powerful telescope.
QUOTE:
Alien woman: "No man of Mars could have struck such a blow, Craig Robinson!"
INSIDE
FRONT COVER: gives us an idea of what Earth is like in the Robinson's time: Rainmaking could permit
cities to spring up in the desert, domed cities
could protect man from violent storms
and provide an air conditioned atmosphere for whole nations, increasing man's life span, some homes and cities could be built undersea and to harvest a crop
of water-growing food supplements.
The brain of a genius could be hooked up to a
computer, allowing man's intelligence to quickly draw upon a large storage of facts, travelling by
teleportation is also possible---physical
bodies or objects would be changed into energy,
transported by radio and reconstituted again.
BACKUP
STRIP: CAPT. VENTURE-OUT OF THE DEPTHS: the two, Rex Venture and Scotty McCay are eaten while inside a
small scoutship-- swallowed by a
whale, ala VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA- JONAH
AND THE WHALE. Inside, they find an alien Troglodyte submarine which looks a bit like the Seaview.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
24
DATE:
October 1967
TITLE:
THE SAVAGE EARTH
COVER:
Prehistoric Beasts and Fire Gods peril the Robinson's visit to Ancient Earth!
NARRATION:
After crash landing on the planet Mars by a malfunction of their space-time shift, the Robinsons have made firm friends of the Martians of a million or so
years ago...as they watch their space
station being repaired by Martian workmen, members
of the ruling council arrive....
CIRCUMSTANCES:
The family go to Earth in this past time. They pass Western Canada and Texas;
LIFE
FORMS: Shovel tusked mastodons, camels, horses, end of the Pliocene Epoch, land bridge between Asia
and Alaska, Pliohippus-horse of a
million years ago, Neohipparion-three toed
horses, a leaf eating ground sloth bear, Teratornis-a condor; otters, little colt, Giganticamelus skull found, 1,000,000 years ago; saber tooth tiger vs.
an elephant wooly mammoth and the
tiger loses; the mammoth attacks the space
mobile;
ALLIES:
The Mars aliens make a phase shift repair device which can only go into the future and they also
repair the SS1.
TIME
FRAME: First: a million years back, then from that point they go to 11 or 12 thousand years BC where they see
Paleo Indians, then they time jump a few
more times and see the lost continent
of Atlantis still there--where the Robinsons save two young sacrifices-a boy and girl-from the hands of the statue of the great fake god Minto-which has
a volcanic tap beneath it so the
priests could make it shoot fire up to consume
the kids--but this is interfered with by Craig and Tim via a space mobile.
SPACE
STATION GEAR: On a telescreen they see natives on Earth fight off a wooly mammoth.
OF
INTEREST: Saturday Morning Two page spread featuring MOBY DICK, THE HERCULOIDS, MIGHTY MIGHTOR, CAVE BOY TOR,
TOG THE FLYING DRAGON, SHAZZAN!, JOHNNY
QUEST!, AND SUPERMAN AQUA MAN HOUR!
WRITTEN
INFO: The Robinsons can fly the SS1 indefinitely using its magnetic power drive. One letter writer
commented that most aliens have the
same basic Earth man type shape; the comment back:
"Our artist has that same basic Earth man shape. Perhaps we need a weird shaped artist to get some
space people who look different. A
reader writers in with a commonly made comment--to
add a Robot. The response: "Tim and Tam do many things that a robot would do. If they had to sit in the SS while a robot explored the new planets, they
would miss out on much of the
excitement they now experience."
BACK
UP STRIP: CAPT. VENTURE started in issue #6 in February 1964. This, issue 24, CAPT. VENTURE-THE BIG WAVE
has a tidal wave, a splendid sea monster,
and green skinned half nekkid people!
NOTE:
VERY SURREAL AND NICELY DONE COVER!
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
25
DATE:
December 1967
TITLE:
THE FALL OF ATLANTIS
COVER:
A time-shift places the Robinsons at Earth's most awesome disaster...THE FALL OF ATLANTIS!
NARRATION:
No longer lost in space, but back ten thousand years in time, the Space Station hovers over "Mintlan," the
capital of the continent of
"Atlantis"!
ENCOUNTER:
Great God Minto; A very well drawn issue and cover, as always; this one is particularly nice!
ALLIES:
Saved sacrificial offerings--Nilita and Alonto, farmers who take the former sacrificial offerings into
their fold--Jotham, Alonto gives him
a cutting tool;
OF
NOTE: An astrogater (TV'S LOST IN SPACE) like device is drawn as the phase device; Robinsons tell the two
allies Nilita and Alonto about their time: travel between
cities on monorail trains (which are
below the rails), all cities are enclosed in domes,
and ships travel with goods under the water in titanic ocean liner submarines, men circle the world in one hour in sky ships and even visit other planets. A
robot in "the readers draw monsters
contest" looks suspiciously like the Robinson
robot on TV's LOST IN SPACE especially around the arms and upper body. Back up strip CAPT. VENTURE-THE LAW OF THE SAVAGE details a green race of half
naked men and women who live in a
luminous underground world ala THE GIRL FROM THE GREEN DIMENSION?
TIME
FRAME: 8000 BC.; June feels it is their duty to warn Atlantis of the coming sinking. This nearly costs her
and Craig their lives when the statue
falls at them and the soldiers and citizens
attack them; Tim and Tam take the two former sacrifices
to Eastern End of the Mediterranean where farmers lived in houses and raised grain--a land called later Tiberias in Palestine. The kids return to save their
parents from being sacrificed and then
they all just barely escape in Space Mobiles
to SS1 and SS1 just makes it away before Atlantis is destroyed.
WRITTEN
INFO: In the February 1967 issue, a seat was installed near the lead in exit-entrance to the cabin to
accommodate extra passengers. It
hooks onto the door and can be easily removed and
placed in the storage area when not needed. Tim is one year older than Tam. The thin atmosphere of space does not create enough pressure to endanger the
domes on the top of the towers of SS1.
When traveling at high speeds in areas of heavy atmosphere, the force field around the Space Station removes the pressure from the cabin. In issue 12, the
Robinsons were captured by a patrol of
Iron Dwarfs. The Robinsons were on and off
of Mars in issues 22, 23, and 24. They have not yet been to Venus.
NEWLY
LOST: Upon leaving Atlantis, the Space Station One is shocked waved by the old space shift device...into
the right time but strange space.
QUOTE:
Craig:
"So, once again, we are lost in space!"
June:
"But safe and sound, Craig! Most of all, that's what matters!"
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
26
DATE:
February 1968
TITLE:
THE CAPTIVES
COVER:
THE CAPTIVES! Blazing meteorites block Tim and Tam's escape from hostile robots!
ENEMIES:
Robots with slit eye pieces.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
27
DATE:
April 1968
TITLE:
PRISONERS OF THE BRAIN
COVER:
The Robinsons, overpowered by a super intelligence, become PRISONERS OF THE BRAIN!
NARRATION:
Lost in space, Earth's first space station waits in orbit about an unnamed sun, while two members of the Robinson family explore the third planet for
intelligent life.
ENEMIES:
Intelligence of Planet Four, robots,
LIFE
FORMS: Wolf like animals, 7380 robotic manikins in a metal city,
CIRCUMSTANCES:
The "Brain" captures June and Craig, then Tim and Tam. The family use a tape of Nursery
Rhymes from Earth to confuse the
"Brain."
WRITTEN
INFO: The original mission was to make a scientific exploration of Earth's solar system. The domes on the space station's towers allow sunlight to filter
through to the vegetable gardens and
fruit trees planted at the top of the towers.
Each Robinson has an extensive wardrobe for most occasions. Tam and June make new outfits in their spare time. The Space Station is so automatic it could be
run by one person. There is no house
cleaning as it is airtight.
OF
INTEREST: A question in the letter column asked, "Was the idea of the TV program LOST IN SPACE gotten from
this comic?" Answer: Our comic was published regularly for
three years before the TV show went on
the air...and the sub title of our second
issue was LOST IN SPACE. Also, a fan from Glasgow, Scotland wrote in.
INSPIRATION
for this issue seems to be THE GHOST PLANET.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
28
DATE:
June 1968
TITLE:
WHEN SUNS COLLIDE
COVER:
Swarms of frenzied bat people plague a planet doomed for destruction...WHEN SUNS COLLIDE!
NARRATION:
Earth's first space station, now lost in space, approaches a vast circle of light beyond which no stars show...
SPACE
DANGERS: the SS1 goes through a black circle--a black hole?- into a different galaxy. There, the Robinsons help bird people who save Tim and Tam, against the bat
people but an even greater danger--two
suns exploding debris toward the planet; they
help the bird people take their planet through the circle of light (SPACE: 1999 did similar things
later in the mid 70's-THE BLACK SUN,
SPACE WARP).
PLANET
FALL: Planet IV, a cold planet with some snow, deep chasms, and canyons, a mountain rising out of one;
Planet Four is not the home of the
bird people but Planet Four is. The Robinsons later
go there. After traveling though the circle of light, the SS1 is buried under snow but recovered.
LIFE
FORMS: Bear size and like otter beasts; they dig up a tree Tim and Tam hide up in but Craig comes to their
rescue with a laser pistol, the tree
falls into the chasm but large winged bird
people catch the two kids;
ALLIES:
Kielok, chief astronomer of Planet Helikon--a bird person with a pendant on; his planet, the 4th
planet, is near two suns which have
collided--the planets around the suns have already
been vaporized; a runaway galaxy has entered the bird people's galaxy with invading suns; the Robinsons take SS1 to Helikon to help in a plan: move their
planet; Clancy and Yakker alert Tim and
Tam to the creeping up bat people. The bird
people are also called the AVIANS.
ENEMIES:
the bat people who arrived in spaceships.
WRITTEN
INFO: Vehicles of the family are made of heat resistant materials-metals, plastics, and glass designed for space b advanced technology on Earth. The exterior
also filters out harmful radiation
and insulates the ship to maintain a constant
temperature inside. SS1 normally enters a planet's atmosphere while the spacemobiles are still on board. If it enters an atmosphere on its own, as it does
from time to time, deceleration
prevents excessive heat from friction. Tim and Tam,
free from scientific duties sometimes, can read microfilm books, watch movies, play music and games, or
use the gym on the Space Station One.
Freeze dried meat is kept on board as well
as growing plants in the greenhouses, The family can also get meat when they land on planets where
there is edible animal life (yeeeek!).
While in flight between solar systems, the
family receive the proper radiation from artificial sun lamps.
QUOTE:
Craig: "But we are lost--lost in space."
BACK
UP STRIP: CAPT. VENTURE-ABANDON SHIP-Another appearance of half naked savages.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
29
DATE:
August 1968
TITLE:
THE FORMLESS FOE
COVER:
THE FORMLESS FOE! A moving, monstrous thing that devours all living beings it encounters!
NARRATION:
Exploring an earth type planet for signs of civilization,
Tim and Tam Robinson spot a strange object and report
to their parents in the space station...
CIRCUMSTANCES:
Abandoned alien car and human skeletons;
ALLIES:
Pointy ears, red hair, thick eyebrowed aliens; Capt. Abunya; squirrel-kangaroo like animal intellectual aliens warn the others of a white thing; little humanids
fishing--they resemble monkey men with
long toes like tree frogs; they carry pouches;
one monkey man is Deet-Dad and he and his kind grow white mushrooms;
SPACE
STATION INFO: Workshop, large hallway,
ENEMIES:
Giant one celled white thing killed by the Robinsons.
WRITTEN
INFO: Top designers and workmen were selected from several aerospace industries throughout the United
States to construct the Space Station
One. Commander Kol returned to his home planet
Iklatal. The Robinsons have a device aboard the Space Station that can diagnose and prescribe treatment for most any illness. If one of the family needed an
operation, it would be necessary to
find a planet with competent doctors. The designers
of SS1 had the interior pressurized to offset any feeling of weightlessness. Tim and Tam have a teaching machine which puts them in a semi-hypnotic state
and implants any subject matter into
their brains within a few seconds. No tests
are needed. The English people in issue 19 were left on a planet at their own request in issue 21--it resembled the British country side.
QUOTE:
From the letters page: "I've been wondering why Tim hasn't a girl friend. He's surely old enough to have a
romance in space. With all those
young other world beauties, he must have been
attracted to one. So please let him fall head over heels for one gal." ANSWER: "A very good suggestion. Let's
hope that happens."
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
30
DATE:
October 1968
TITLE:
ATTACK OF THE PLANT CREATURES
COVER:
Tim and Tam Robinson wage a battle of survival aboard a distressed space ship...ATTACK OF THE PLANT CREATURES
NARRATION:
Following a friendly space ship toward its home planet, the Robinsons notice a sudden change in its course!
GEAR:
Yellow space suits with clear square helmet;
LIFE
FORMS: Fish faced tentacled plant monsters which took over the alien ship escorted by the Space Station,
the plant men reproduce by fission
and came aboard when they stopped at a green
planet; pointy eared Mr. Spock lookalikes; one seems Oriental; Tim shoots the ship's air out into space and this kills the plant men but also accelerates
away from SS1; Tam and Impak got out in
a life boat; Craig leaps from Space Mobile
to the ship of the other survivors to bring them air; ALLIES: Space Chief Harnot; Impak; other
aliens who escaped the plant creatures
in a shuttle but Impak and Harnot were cut off
OF NOTE: The aliens use a three paneled window like Jupiter II; LAND OF THE GIANTS comic coming soon promo; one
of the plant men uses a flame
thrower--the fire goes out when the ship's air
is sucked out;
WRITTEN
INFO: There is a metal plaque on a wall inside the Space Station which gives all pertinent
information. As a scientific library,
much space was needed to store equipment and to conduct the many scientific tests of our solar system planned by the Robinsons--also, the designers did
not want the family to feel cramped in
their home away from home. The Robinsons have
been lost in space for six years. They left Earth in 2001. In issue 27, the brain stayed alive for longer than six minutes.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
31
DATE:
December 1968
TITLE:
THE DARK PLANET
COVER:
THE DARK PLANET...where alien creatures control life and light until the arrival of the Robinsons!
NARRATION:
The Aldaran spaceship the Robinsons have been following to its home planet slows to a relative stop. Craig Robinson hails it by videophone...
CIRCUMSTANCES:
Home planet of the aliens, Aldar, has disappeared but it is still there, just not reflecting light or any other radiation.
ALLIES:
Chief of electronics for the aliens--Ira Modap. He and Craig set up wires outside the space station to the biggest generator. Lord Aturbin calls Craig,
"Captain Robinson," and looks a bit like Mr. Fitzhugh from LAND OF
THE GIANTS with the Spock ears. The
aliens' spaceship is called COMET. Aldar is freezing
now that everything went dark. A strange insectoid grasshopper-mantis like creature with a gun. Kamtar is aide to Aturbin.
ENEMIES:
The insectoids' planets in their own star system are overcrowded and they will try to take the planets of Adlar's sun.
OF
INTEREST: Ad for LAND OF THE GIANTS-COUNTDOWN TO ESCAPE comic. An elevator in the space mobile park area on
SS1 looks like a larger freezing tube
from TV'S LOST IN SPACE. Aturbin, after winning
the battle with lots of help from the family, asks them to remain on the planet to live. Craig's answer: "The call of our native Earth is too strong in our
blood! We must keep hoping against
hope to find her, somehow, somewhere!"
In addition there are a few
quotes about not giving up and almost giving
up which make this a running theme of this issue. Days after the battle the Robinsons are given an estimate as to where the Earth is.
QUOTE:
Chief Aldar Astronomer: I need not warn you of the perils of space-wandering.
BACKUP
STRIP: Strip is the key word as in CAPTAIN VENTURE-HUNTERS OF THE DEEP, the two main astronauts and
several native tribes they encounter
hardly wear any clothes! This is not unique to this
issue, either!
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
32
DATE:
February 1969
TITLE:
THE ULTIMATE WEAPON
COVER:
The attack of the AMPHIBIAN CREATURES!
NARRATION:
The Robinsons, observing brilliant flashes on a strange, earth like planet, have left their station
in orbit and are exploring with their
space mobiles. Their caution in not risking
the space station is well justified!
ENEMIES:
Fish like space-sea ships fire at the Spacemobiles with alien fish monster-men inside. The fish intelligences are called Iktans. Commander Tikpo. The CIC
stays while his fish people leave,
frightened by Eilot's thought machine. The CIC goes
down and up with the base--supposedly.
ALLIES:
A giant light paralyses the Robinsons. Tall, skinny aliens are called Thelan people who have commandos. Eilot
is their leader. They unfreeze the
family, making sure they are friendly.
Wearing a scale like shirt, Atula is second in command,
a female. The Iktans from the 4th planet took over this planet, forced the Thelans to leave it. Now, suicide missions return. This commando group is
stranded here when their rocket was
shot down. They have rocket guns. The planet they
fled to is called New Thela. The aliens allow Craig to image himself a message back to Earth and they also build a machine to project a solid functioning
likeness of himself to any point he
chooses--it may help them find their way back home.
This takes a whole month and SS1 has to be in orbit for that time.
NOTE:
Clancy is with the Robinsons on this trip down to the planet.
OF
INTEREST: Craig asks the Thelans, who cannot locate Earth, if he can send his thoughts to Earth (?). He
does. On Earth, Hank Barrows,
astronomer in charge is being interviewed by two reporters in the Bear Mountain Observatory about the SS1 and the cosmic forces that took it away. Suddenly,
Craig's image appears to tell them to
tell their friends they are alive and making
their way back to Earth. Hank and Craig seem to be friends or at least to know each other. Craig's scene, returning home, is hilariously but also
seriously done--a fine sequence.
WRITTEN
INFO: SS1 is not armed. The magnetic power drive is too large to be used in the space mobiles.
BACK
UP STRIP: CAPT VENTURE-AND THE LAND BENEATH THE SEA was its own comic in the summer of 1969; here in issue
32, CAPT. VENTURE-ABANDONED occurs,
with frog like aliens who are friendly
as well as porpoise men who are friendly fighting the Trog on Aquaria.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
33
DATE:
April 1969
TITLE:
THE ARCH OF NO RETURN
COVER:
Startling beyond belief...beyond this world...THE ARCH OF NO RETURN!
NARRATION:
Craig Robinson intently adjusts the controls of his new thought projection machine--a gift from the engineers of the planet Theta...
NOTE:
Hank Barrow is visited by colleagues--they think he is crazy. His story of seeing Craig Robinson's
thought projection a couple of MONTHS
AGO make them think he should enter a hospital
and submit to a psychiatric examination. Just then, Craig makes another appearance and this one is just as classic and fine: funny and non-chalantly done by
Craig, stunning the other scientists.
"Oh, June says hello!" Craig is told by Eilot of Theta and New Theta that the have developed a new device, a space warp for intergalactic
travel. Tim and Tam want to explore a
Mars-like world.
CIRCUMSTANCES:
on the flowery planet which does not have enough gravity to hold an atmosphere Tim and Tam find a dead city under a dome which has a hole in it, broken
by a meteorite probably. They also
find a strange arch in the city. Going through
it, Tim vanishes, to be followed by Tam. On the other side is another planet.
PLANETS:
Mars like planet-see above; new planet Tim and Tam went through the Arch to: giant mushrooms, giant worms, giant ants, giant plants, giant honey bees--all
somewhat alien looking; it traps the
kids in a honey comb ala the Ray Harryhausen version of MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. A giant butterfly; Tim guesses the builders of yet another city of the same people
who transposed here through the arch,
were experimenting with growth hormones.
The lower forms of life--the plants killed off the alien builders and invaded this new city. Tim and Tam have no idea where the planet they are on is.
OTHER
LIFE FORMS: A regular bee; a caterpillar; a giant tree snail- -carnivorous; moss; June and Craig go to find
the kids using thought projections of
themselves--flying in space without space
suits and landing on the planet bodily! A giant dragonfly. The kids find another arch with help from their parents' thought projections. A giant praying
mantis attacks first and gets the
projections of June and Craig.
ALLIES:
Hank Barrows.
STUPID
PERSON: Dr. Somers returns with a message from the colleagues that saw Craig's form the last time he appeared to Hank at Bear Mt. Observatory. Somers tells
Hank he and his colleagues are
prepared to forget the mass illusion Hank created.
Just then, Craig puts in another appearance, getting needed star charts from Hank, scaring Somers away.
WRITTEN
INFO: The plan was for the family to be in space one year. The Robinsons have laser rifles but the
Spacemobiles do not have build in
lasers.
OF
NOTE: STAR TREK-THE PERIL OF THE QUICK CHANGE comic ad.
BACK
UP STRIP: Capt. Venture and Scotty Mackay are not lost in space but stranded on a water covered
planet with no way to communicate
their position to Earth. Their mission was to probe
space in an advanced rocket ship. This issue-CAPT. VENTURE-CITY UNDER THE SEA--Rex Venture is drawn like an older Tim and even a younger Tim in some frames.
Frog like aliens are friendly.
QUOTE:
Tim: We're back, mom! And I think it will be awhile before Tam
and I explore another planet!
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
34
DATE:
June 1969
TITLE:
TRACKED BY THE DOOM MISSILE
COVER:
Escape in space...TRACKED BY THE DOOM MISSILE!
NARRATION:
Searching for a helpful civilization, Tim and Tam Robinson have explored another solar system by space mobile, only to find the one oxygen planet empty of
life. Tim reports to the Space
Station...
SPACE
DANGERS: An asteroid belt
LIFE
FORMS: VERY alien looking beings this time: slits for nose and mouth, large bug eyes, elongated snouts,
one is called Hawbeek and another
Potak--from a methane type planet; they made war on humans on the third planet; these enemies use war ships, anti matter missiles and are from the fourth
planet of methane.
TIME
FRAME: The humans awakened by Tim have been suspended for 8000 years, survivors of the war between them
and the methane breathing aliens.
ALLIES:
Android Number One, purple haired Lady Danea and her survivors who leave their world in a giant spaceship called Okandra which looks oddly like the
Enterprize in the original STAR TREK
and also VERY MUCH LIKE the Enterprize in STAR TREK: VOYAGER. Danea and her aliens' planetarium has an open side and ceiling--not unlike that in LOST IN
SPACE-THE DERELICT.
NOTE:
Backup strip CAPT. VENTURE, features a Scottish astronaut with
Venture (as always) named Scotty! Also featured are frog aliens and an alien abandoned
submarine--which looks a great deal
like the SEAVIEW from VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA!
QUOTE:
Upon
leaving the suspended animation forcefield bubble dome, Lady Danea (dressed
like the Aunt Gamma from PRINCESS OF SPACE) thought Tim and Tam were planetary
survivors of the war.
Tim
tells her, "We are not from your planet, nor even from your solar
system."
Danea:
"Yes! I can see now! Your hair is not the color of ours...AND OTHER
THINGS." This is a riot!
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
35
DATE:
August 1969
TITLE:
SPACE GIANTS (the title of a Japanese sci-fi live action show with about 52 episodes)
COVER:
An emergency landing plunges the Robinsons into the grasp of SPACE GIANTS! (on the cover art, Tim looks
like a full grown and muscular man!)
NARRATION:
As Earth's first space station wanders, lost in space, three small meteorites whip through the main oxygen tanks!
PLANETFALL:
A nice lush and neat forest this time. A city of giants in almost Jolly Green Giant like clothes. They hold down the Space Station with weighted ropes.
LIFE
FORMS: A giant dog with many fangs--which runs from a slap from Tim. Tim and Craig were outside when
the SS1 was stolen by the giants who do
not seem to have mouths. They do have two claw
like appendages instead of fingers. Tam and "mom" pick up Tim in a space mobile. They win back the SS1
and leave.
TIM'S
THOUGHTS: Wow! Mom is some pilot!
CLOSING
NARRATION: Glad to have the hostile planet behind them, the Robinsons are now anxious to move on into
space-into the unknown.
NOTE:
Capt. Venture seems to have his own comic now but still appears as backup here--CAPT. VENTURE-THE MAN HUNTERS. A violent episode many of the alien Trogs die
from being grabbed up by the neck by
plant vines on one huge bush, then poisoned by
the tentacles!
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
36
DATE:
October 1969
TITLE:
CRASH COURSE WITH PLANET THREE
COVER:
Tim Robinson attempts a mid-air rescue while on a CRASH COURSE WITH PLANET THREE!
NARRATION:
Swept away by unexplained cosmic forces, and lost in space, Earth's first space station approaches a strange planetoid.
PLANETS:
A little world only 20 miles across and an atmosphere. Oxygen nitrogen and a few small bodies of water. It is like a miniature of the other oxygen planet in
this solar system. The home world is
Bathune.
LIFE
FORMS: Birds near lakes, water falls, all Earth size, plants, flowers, butterflies,
ENEMIES:
Prince Rogan of an artificial planetoid he made which has a mechanical heart, producing gravity, heat,
and power for a million years. There
are also metal pieces which fall with hand
prints on them. The Prince has been exiled here. He is freed by Tam and Craig and tells them he has been imprisoned underground in the complex in suspended
animation for less than 100 years. He
uses them to try to take back his throne-- all
lies of course. At first, he tries to make Tam fall for him. He threatens Tam with a needle of death and leaves Craig to die on the planetoid. When Rogan won't
cut drive as his space mobile (going
at half speed thanks to a trick by Tam), Tim
and Craig must link up with the spacemobile before it burns up in the gravity pull atmosphere of the mother planet. They save both space mobiles and return Rogan
to his planet prison. Rogan's crime was
trying to usurp his brother's throne and
if Tam and Craig didn't free him, he would have remained prisoner for over a million years at which time
the air and water would go when the
planetoid lost its gravity machine produced
gravity. The aliens have strange hair, kind of like a second eyebrow type of bangs.
CLOSING
NARRATION: And soon after, a furious young prince watches his erstwhile "guests" vanish into space." (A WELL DRAWN, POETIC END FRAME).
OF
INTEREST: Ads for new Saturday Morning cartoons including FANTASTIC VOYAGE and THE ADVENTURES OF
GULLIVER. Back up strip CAPT.
VENTURE-THE DEADLY WALL has a spaceship-submarine which looks a great deal like a modernized Seaview from VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA especially around the
conning tower. Ad for new FANTASTIC
VOYAGE comic--world beneath the roots of a strange
plant. SPACE: 1999 had a similar story, END OF ETERNITY.
QUOTES:
Tim:
Mom, Dad! Let Tam and me explore it in a spacemobile!
Craig:
No, Tim! You've had some close calls lately-by being too daring! This time you stay here!
Tam:
It's only a swimming pool, dad, but I'd love to jump in!
Craig:
The truth, is, Prince Rogan, we've been lost in space, for a long time!
MARCH
OF COMICS SPACE FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
352
DATE:
1970
TITLES:
CAPTIVES OF SPACE
COVER:
Tim and Tam on a rock with space helmets and Clancy, behind them is the space station one with two
small figures, presumably June and
Craig.
NOTE:
There are rumored to have been THREE MORE ISSUES OF THIS with SPACE FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE ON SPACE STATION ONE
ISSUE:
37
DATE:
October 1973
TEASER:
recap of being lost in space, then lost in time, then back
TITLE:
THE 7 MECHANICAL MEN
COVER:
A daring rescue by the Robinsons saves young captives from a
fiery doom!
TEASER
NARRATION: In the year 2001, the Robinsons, Earth's first family to live space, are exploring our
solar system aboard space station one
when a cosmic explosion hurls the huge craft deep
into the far reaches of the galaxy. Much later...powered by a faster than light magnetic drive, the
Space Station has visited many stars
in its search for a clue to Earth's location--and
has explored their planets with the Robinson's two
spacemobiles. Each world is different-and often disappointing! Sometimes the station's telescreen, focussed on a strange planet, shows an unearthly city.
More than once their reception is unfriendly!
On one planet, a kindly race of scientists
tries to teach the Robinsons their advanced "phase astronomy."
Later...with the new space-time machine in the Robinson's space station...with the space time machine installed in space mobile number one, Craig
and Tim set out...next
instant...after two more careful phase shifts, the spacemobile cruises above Earth's north atlantic ocean.
NOTE:
In this recap, Tim looks like he wears a
jumpsuit that looks like a bathing
suit for women--over clothes and Tam seems to have
on her pajamas or PJ-like outfit!)
NARRATION:
The Robinsons, moving on through the depths of space, approach a volcano-covered planet...
ALLIES:
Toburo, one of the young who is saved from sacrifice. Mara- Lua, a girl saved. The Robinsons take 8
young survivors from their volcano
planet to a new planet.
LIFE
FORMS: giant reptiles, dinosaurs, flying reptiles
CIRCUMSTANCES:
In a flowering city Androids who all look alike-- Numbers One through Seven--mechanical men created by a team of French scientists in the year 2001. They
sent the robots out in a great ship to
explore the planets of double star Gamma Andromedae
and to colonize it. The human beings in suspended animation, died and the ship seemed to fall out of normal space. The robots landed, built the city, and
have waited to serve someone. The young
former sacrifices will live here. The robot
androids use sticky web guns to try to keep Tim and Tam's space mobile here before they realize this will
happen. NOTE: Another high speed
elevator appears.
MISPRINT:
Tim: Das has figured out what to do, Tam! Just wait! (It should be "Dad has figured out what to
do, Tam! Just wait!"
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE ON SPACE STATION ONE
ISSUE:
38
DATE:
January 1974 (my first issue and the 1st I ever saw)
TITLE:
WEB OF DOOM
COVER:
Space spiders trap the Robinsons in a WEB OF DOOM!
NARRATION:
Approaching an earth type planet to investigate some strange radio signals, space station one is caught and drawn by a powerful magnetic force.
CLOTHES:
The family wear some nifty new ones-Craig wears white with pink lining on the collar and neck area as
well as the belt, Tim wears a vest over
lined shirt.
ALLIES:
Aliens with blue faces and giant rocket ship, streamlined, have bones of iron base, therefore they are
stuck in their tilted spacecraft. The
alien rocket ship has someone leave and also
has in the control room, an astrogater not unlike TV'S LOST IN SPACE's Jupiter II. There is also a gang hatch coming up from one deck not unlike some seen in TV'S
LOST IN SPACE=PRINCESS OF SPACE, MUTINY
IN SPACE, THE LOST CIVILIZATION and
others. Termal, the blonde blue boy alien; his
sister Tula made it out of their ship and they aide Tim and Tam when June and Craig are captured by spider men and brought down under the ground to be
interrogated. Tim and Tam find giant
eggs that are buildings. Tula is not unlike JUDY ROBINSON in appearance except her skin is blue. Holding hands with Tula and Termal, Tim and Tam can
thought-sleep the spiders down.
ENEMIES:
Spider men and women that use egg shaped buildings, liquid containers in some buildings, doors that
look like the cabins on TV'S LOST IN
SPACE Jupiter II, and trap spaceships, eat their
occupants, and care for their own eggs. Stun guns. The spiders live under and in a mountain of cold. The spiders at one point use sub-sonic vibrations to
nearly recapture all the Robinsons. Tim
fights it off and stuns the spider doing this.
GEAR:
The jet packs are used this time as Tim and Tam use the spider's own stun guns against them to save June and Craig.
QUOTE:
June: "EEEEE! Craig!"
COMMENT:
My favorite issue, probably since it was the first one I saw. It also has some great imagery and
artwork. The cover is well drawn and
exciting.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IS SPACE ON SPACE STATION ONE
ISSUE:
39
DATE:
April 1974
TITLE:
CRISIS ON PLANET 4
COVER:
Alien space ships use panic beams to capture the Robinsons: CRISIS ON PLANET 4
NARRATION:
Exploring with their spacemobile the third planet of a Sol-type star, Tim and Tam Robinson come upon a scene of furious activity.
LIFE
FORMS: Tarantula Giants surround a purple eyed, blue faced girl who can read thoughts and can move
fast--her talisman supplies her with
increased kinetic energy. Tim burns the spiders
to death. The girl's name is Ualda. Ualda gives them talismans to help get away to help their parents. She shows them a 3D film in her space traveler of
alien raiders.
ENEMIES:
Aliens in a pyramid shaped ship use scout ships to flush the natives out of hiding and herd them like
cattle using a panic ray. SS1 hides in a
deep gulch on the 4th planet. There Craig
and June are captured and herded into an adobe corral with native tribesmen by alien spaceships and a heavy log gate is shut. The aliens are in yellow suits with
red fronts and have fly-like eyes.
ALLIES:
Ualda; seal-humanoid aliens who swim under the water; alien commandant is called Garnark--dressed in
black and some yellow, looking like a
batman. Tim's form cannot be rayed by the
Commandant who shoots his own men and they shoot him. The aliens panic--effects of their own panic
rays and start shooting each other and
downing their own ships. The commandant
takes off with the ports still open--the aliens will die in their ship.
GEAR:
Ualda's water breathers, thought translators, talismans,
NOTE:
Tim calls the Commander ugly. Ualda returns to Tim and Tam, tells the seals her people will protect the
seal planet and that to bring Tim and
Tam to her planet is forbidden. On the cover,
the primitive tribal humans were green faced but in the comic.
CLOSING
NARRATION: Later, as the SS lifts off to continue its search for a familiar star...
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE ON SPACE STATION ONE
ISSUE:
40
DATE:
July 1974
TITLE:
ACCIDENT IN HYPER SPACE
COVER:
HYPER SPACE WHERE TIM AND Tam fight to survive while they shrink
in size!
NARRATION:
Lost in uncharted space, Earth's first complete, navigable space station is picking up coded radio signals from an earth type planet...signals that Craig
Robinson has fed into a language
translator.
LIFE
FORMS: Lots! Giant gopher like mammal, butterfly, hawks, dragonfly, ostrich,
CIRCUMSTANCES:
Breaking into hyper space shrinks Tim and Tam in their space mobile with it. Later, after Tuklot's help and help from the Chief Astronomer, they have
to fly their space mobile, tiny, out
of the observatory on the Space Station and into
the bay...for they grow back to normal size.
ALLIES:
Tuklot, deputy coordinator of an alien city. Flying platforms loaded with civilians escape an earthquake and a tidal wave. Wear robes and slippers. Look a
bit Oriental or Spanish. Flat noses.
Headpieces. Balladorn is their capital. Aliens
find three star systems that could be Earth's for the Robinsons.
ENEMIES:
Savages with black pony tails and pointed jagged clubs riding on a horse like kangaroo creatures.
NOTES:
Lots of LAND OF THE GIANTS references and type scenes including being dropped onto a table top and being called LITTLE PEOPLE. TV's LOST IN SPACE seemed to
be the reference point for a window
on page one that looks alot like the three paneled
viewport in the LOST IN SPACE TV series.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE ON SPACE STATION ONE
ISSUE:
41
DATE:
October 1974
TITLE:
BATTLE OF GIANTS
COVER:
BATTLE OF GIANTS! A clash between two men of magic who transform into gigantic
beasts!
NARRATION:
Having landed on a seemingly uninhabited planet for minor repairs on their space station, June and Craig Robinson allow their children to explore the
continent in their spacemobile...
CIRCUMSTANCES:
A blasted city, some radiation;
LIFE
FORMS: a giant mutated rat with tusks, talking giant statue that looks almost Egyptian; another giant
statue that looks almost Norselike,
another almost African (it talks to June and Craig
later). The statues lead them to Goulak.
ENEMIES:
Perhaps in what is the world's first alien villain (or almost any character) that has worn a short cut shirt (much as ELRIC would do in several of his comic
series) a blue alien with a buzz cut
(he's far ahead of his time in many areas) is named
Goulak. He uses mind control to get Tim and Tam to get their parents to the area. He starts to drain the life out of the four. Tim fights him off but then sees a
giant eye of the alien, several unreal
horrors--snakes, amphibious monsters; a giant
dragon that shoots fire on him--all illusions; next a tower falls at Tim and next he is hanging over a fire--these last two dangers are real as is the next--a
pendulum.
ALLIES:
Lothian of A-Tarr, a tall, handsome blonde or white haired man with band around his head and open shirt
and purple tights with a cape arrives
to save Tim and give the "space wanderers" back
their life energy. Goulak attacks Lothian and the pair fight. Goulak transforms into a giant cat, then a dino-dragon, Lothian turns into a unicorn; Goulak a
serpent; the two change again--a hawk
and vulture; they fight with swords when they return
to form. Even though King Lothian wins, it is still mind against mind. He tells them to return to their space mobiles.
OUTCOME:
En route, the family encounters giant pterodactyl like birds, rumbling falling ruins, spiny bushes with thorns that move around the spacemobiles and one grabs
June; the dead city melts away;
Lothian teleports to the space mobile and takes them to his city where human seeming androids with white hair are. A sudden burst of radiation from their
sun killed many people--children of
survivors were mutants and they died also. Lothian
was born with psychic powers and taps the energy of his sun to use his power. It is how he destroyed Goulak. Lothian makes android doubles of the
Robinsons to keep him company. The
atomic chain reaction spreads and Lothian takes the Robinsons out through the quakes. It will soon reach the whole planet and its center. Lothian has a
sleek rocketship of his own. But Craig
must help him when a rock hits him in the head.
After lifting off, Lothian recovers and must see the sun, in the observation deck, he drains the sun of power. Tam says, "It's kind of scary." The androids take off in Lothian's rocket. Planet number four is
where the rocket will go--it is cold and
uninhabited but he has a base there. He teleports
there after giving them a model city as a keepsake.
CLOSING
NARRATION: The Space Station is at a safe distance as the planet explodes into a fiery mass. The
Robinsons, shaken by the day's events,
are silent as the gaze back upon the spectacular
scene...and all are frightened at the thought of what can be wrought by man's mind.
SPACE
STATION: Infirmary is seen.
NOTE:
We see inside the back room of Tim's spacemobile-not for the first time.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE ON SPACE STATION ONE
ISSUE:
42
DATE:
January 1975
TITLE:
THE HIDDEN WORLD
COVER:
The Robinsons are attacked by poisonous predator deep within a hidden world!
LIFE
FORMS: giant dragonflies underground, alien victim needs help.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE ON SPACE STATION ONE
ISSUE:
43
DATE:
April 1975
TITLE:
TRAPPED IN SPACE
COVER:
TRAPPED IN SPACE! A laser spouting warship zeroes in on Tim and Tam.
NARRATION:
Lost in the far reaches of the galaxy, the Space Station nears on Earth type planet...and orbiting
mystery.
SPACE
STATION NOTES: Infirmary. Magnetic lock to bring a DERELICT alien ship down to a prehistoric like
planet. June and Craig's bedroom.
CIRCUMSTANCES:
Tim and Tam, along with Clancy, take wild ride by accident when Clancy triggers the alien derelict with them aboard. They find themselves in overdrive
and moving to a new planet from
space.
LIFE
FORMS: A giant wooly mammoth rhino, bull, tusked giant creature; a bat hummingbird;
ALLIES:
Torlac, once sick with plague like his comrades, is attacked by a warship.
Aliens have strange hairless face, a light olive green color, puffy lips.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE ON SPACE STATION ONE
ISSUE:
44
DATE:
August 1975
TITLE:
LOST IN TIME
SCRIPT:
Gaylord Dubois
ART:
Dan Spiegle
COVER:
The Robinsons journey back into the prehistoric days...LOST IN TIME
NARRATION:
Lost in space, and holed by a small meteorite, Earth's first space station is forced to land on a desert planet that is plagued by violent dust storms...
TIME
FRAME: 8000 to 10,000 years ago on Earth.
ALLIES:
Robot Worker Host of the City Latalla; builders of the city departed to another planet 5000 years ago;
machines in the city can fulfill any
wish; there is also a New Latalla and a new
giant rocketship; they land on Earth...in the far past at the very end of the last ice age.
Prehistoric tribe of American Natives.
Latalla's sun goes super nova. The robots have
rebuilt the Space Station One's power's plant for greater output. New Latallan projection helps tell them
what is happening. Old Latalla was in a
sealed clear dome.
LIFE
FORMS: Saber tooth tiger, bison calf, oxen which destroy the robot, mastodons;
QUOTE:
New Latallan projection: "What you see, O man of Earth, is a solid
seeming projection of myself, returned here to greet you!"
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
45
DATE:
October 1975
TITLE:
PLANET OF MONSTERS
COVER:
The Robinsons rescue a Space Boy stranded on the PLANET OF MONSTERS!
INSIDE
COVER: also follows titles with ON SPACE STATION ONE as does issue
46 as well.
NARRATION:
With its power generators strained by a narrow escape from a black star, the lost space station must land for repairs on an Earth type planet...
CLOTHES:
The Robinson clothes, always wonderful, far surpass any of the other issue in sleekness and
design.
ALIENS:
blue-green faced Oriental like friendly aliens with black hair; a child with them has white hair; the
aliens live in mounds and are tall,
skinny called LEAPERS;
LIFE
FORMS: A medusa worm with many tentacles around its mouth and it gets Tim! The spacemobile's rockets fry it.
A sand spider attacks the tall people
but Tim uses the spacemobile to save them.
Flying bird creatures, sea serpents, a glade Ornk- Groooonk sounding monster-a dragon like thing; The Light Bender!
THE
SPACE BOY: He did come from the other side of this planet. His parents died when their flyer crashed. The
boy's name is Duka Ponato and he
lives across the ocean they must cross to get him
home. He and his parents were the first ones to cross the ocean. He wears rags mostly and has no
shoes, big black eyes, after many
adventures with monsters and near death, the boy (who thought Tim and Tam were going to die) is reunited with his uncle Comas after three years.
DANGER:
Something kills the birds and makes them fall from the sky. It almost drags the spacemobile down, too.
Some marine monster generates sub
sonic vibrations which can kill them, tear apart living tissue. Tim has to land. When Tim and Tam pass out, the boy recovering, cannot wake them up so he
ventures out alone...and falls into
quicksand! The Grooonk comes at Tim and the
boy in the quicksand. Craig and June arrive, use cord to pull them out, but the monster grabs the
pair of boys up in his claw, beginning
to pull Tam, June, and Craig in also! The boy's
people fire arrows at it and this allows Craig enough time to toss an egg shaped explosive in the monster's mouth. Trying to return to the spacemobiles to
show Comas, the family find their
spacemobiles gone! Comas explains it is the Light- Bender-a creature who is harmless but curious. It goes, making them appear again. It can bend the light
around whatever it wishes.
ALLIES:
Comas-who builds canopies for planes at his glass factory and glass insulators; his people are just
learning aeronautics, the boy and his
people are lighter yellowish than the
Leapers; Duka warns Craig of storms in the desert continent that might harm the SS1; Comas makes glass insulators for SS1 and gives them to Craig.
MORE
MONSTERS: Returning at night to their space station, the Robinsons find it webbed up by a giant
spider which then jumps onto the
spacemobile of Tim and Tam; they shake it off into the fire of their rockets (ho hum, again). They then fry the web off SS1.
QUOTE:
Comas: "I never dreamed I'd meet a man from outer space, Craig
Robinson!"
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
46
DATE:
January 1976
TITLE:
WAR IN SPACE
COVER:
Prisoners of bird men, Tim and Tam witness a WAR IN SPACE!
NARRATION:
Lost in space, Earth's first family space station has a strange visitor...
ALIENS:
ELDER MAN leads SS1 to a primitive planet away from a space war--he is old with white hair and can fly
in space-he is just a
projection.
LIFE
FORMS: Carboniferous jungle, reptiles, a man riding on a giant eagle, blue tribal men, ostrich like bird
that eats men, a furry hairy
man-animal with intelligence. Man eating fish that have fins that are backwards from our sharks on Earth. These prevent Tim from swimming out to the lost
spacemobile on the surface of the
alien ocean.
ALLIES:
Elder Man, blue tribe; Natuk, the herb doctor whom is whisked upward on the SS1 ladder with Craig--away from the bird monster; Natuk's home is on the water-his
people the Beaveroo; alien fish; the
Beaveroo homes become a floating island.
ENEMIES:
Some of the shirtless blue men traders take Tim and Tam hostage when they tell them they have nothing to trade. They will burn Tim and Tam if their parents
won't trade the flying boat. Tim has
a thin knife in his right boot. They use it to get
out.
SPACE
DANGERS: The space war sends debris down to the planet, burning up the perch of the blue men's eagles and hitting SS1! The Spacemobile is blown out to sea, minus a
leg; Tim and Tam slide down into a
moss covered sea; an alien spaceship uses parachuted
to land on the ocean from out of the war. Another wreck crashes near SS1 and methane gas comes out of it--the air that the alien crew breathed and it knocks
out June and Craig. A four legged
methane breather emerges near the Spacemobile,
hairy and insectoid and wearing a breathing helmet.
The "Slug" ship is blown up by another ship--a new ship which tractor beams the spacemobile
back to shore for Tim and Tam. It was
Elder Man. He has technicians repair the station's
space drive.
NOTE:
A more complicated, involved issue than most with lots happening.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE ON SPACE STATION ONE
ISSUE:
47
DATE:
April 1976
TITLE:
THE SPACE JACKERS
SCRIPT:
Gaylord Dubois
ART:
Dan Spiegle
COVER:
An astonishing sight in deep space--objects from Earth!
NARRATION:
After a brief trip to a desert planet in their spacemobiles,
the Robinsons are ready to return to their orbiting space station.
UNUSUAL
CIRCUMSTANCES: Finding people from Earth who were abducted by UFOs,
some are the descendants of earlier captives. Robinsons were brought here by same UFOs
through a space gate. Captives from many past times on Earth
(Vikings).
TIME
FRAME HINTS: Four captives are from a cargo plane in 1998.
SPACE
STATION NOTES: Touched down, infiltrated by aliens.
LIFE
FORMS: Movable man eating bush with fold up tentacles and teeth! Small cute bear like cub Tim frees
from carnivorous plant.
ALLIES:
The freed captives, one named Tom, one named Mack
ADDITIONAL
NOTES: Clancy, the dog; Yakker the parrot.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE ON SPACE STATION ONE
ISSUE:
48
DATE:
August 1976
TITLE:
PIRATES OF THE ASTEROIDS!
COVER:
Tim's alien double takes command-PIRATES OF THE ASTEROIDS!
ALIENS:
Gopher faced beings.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE ON SPACE STATION ONE
ISSUE:
49-REPRINT OF ISSUE 38
DATE:
January 1974 (my first issue and the 1st I ever saw)
TITLE:
WEB OF DOOM
COVER:
Space spiders trap the Robinsons in a WEB OF DOOM!
NARRATION:
Approaching an earth type planet to investigate some strange radio signals, space station one is caught and drawn by a powerful magnetic force.
CLOTHES:
The family wear some nifty new ones-Craig wears white with pink lining on the collar and neck area as
well as the belt,
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
NOTE:
Inside cover says ON SPACE STATION ONE.
ISSUE:
50
DATE:
January 1977
TITLE:
PLAGUE SHIP!
COVER:
Epidemic on Earth-and a fight for survival aboard the PLAGUE SHIP!
NARRATION:
After an extra dimensional space maneuver, the Robinsons'
telescope brings a familiar star into focus...
ALLIES:
Space Cruiser Perseus Capt. Adams from EARTH! Crew-Sloan and Fraser among many others.
PLANET:
Number 12
PROBLEM:
Titan Bacillus that escaped from a lab somehow (Shades of Terry
Nation's VERY SCARY TV SHOW---THE SURVIVORS) is causing a plague.
LIFE
FORMS: Lizards of orange and flat bodies and faces; rodent toads, birds, strange flying mantas, cloud
ceiling of red, volcanic activity,
flowers, gas bacilli that can cure plague, a
3 eyed beaked creature with five tentacles and that looks as if it made an appearance in VOYAGE TO THE
BOTTOM OF THE SEA in a slightly changed
form some years earlier-with a gorilla bottom
half and parts of a giant lobster-crab! Here, issue 50, it
also can be airborne! a GIANT HAIRY cyclops with four arms, three claws on each hand, and three clawed
toes, over 8 feet tall, is one of the
specimens on Adams's ship. It escapes! The Quadrumanous
Ape is from Planet Alpha 34--odd since it and the whole scene with it remind me of SPACE: 1999-particularly the Maya goes berserk episode SPACE WARP. It also
looks like a creature Maya turned into in
THE BRINGERS OF WONDER PART TWO and NEW
ADAM, NEW EVE.
GEAR:
White spacesuits on Adams's ship.
ADDITIONAL
PROBLEMS: Helping out on Adams's ship, Tam gets infected by pricking her finger by accident. June
wards off the cyclops with a laser
gun. Craig forestalls it but Tim kills it but is wounded slightly--infected. The monster's blood kills the virus and saves Tam and Craig as well as
the crew from the plague.
SPACE
DANGERS: Alpha 3-one of Alpha Centauri's triple suns-which is dangerously close to Adams's ship. Perseus
shifts into hyper space to Earth. The
Robinsons are ready to go home too after all
this time--June says, "After all these years." Alack and alas,
the burst from the star reaches out from Alpha 3 to plunge SS1 into space--activating the dimensional unit...
QUOTE:
June: We're lost again, Craig--LOST IN SPACE!
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
NOTE:
inside cover reads SFR LIS ON SPACE STATION ONE
ISSUE:
51
DATE:
April 1977
TITLE:
CITY IN ORBIT
STORY:
Gaylord Du Bois
ART:
Dan Spiegle
COVER:
NO ESCAPE-A golden satellite on collision course with an alien planet!
NARRATION:
Lost among the stars, Earth's first manned space station approaches an Earth-like planet-to discover
another visitor!
SPACE
DANGERS: A very giant alien cylinder draws SS1 to it. Tim and Craig spacewalk
and find a way in. They find aliens in suspended animation in tube-like oval
shapes.
ALLIES:
Eripon, chief engineer, blue faced aliens; some aliens have yellow faces;
BACKSTORY:
The master race which enslaved his race long ago, began raiding planets for more slaves of many species; alien cultures that resisted were destroyed, until
the masters met a race mightier than
themselves--THE TORATONS! The Space Fleets of the Masters and the Toratons
clashes and the Toratons won. With their
enemies' fleet destroyed, the Toratons attacked the Master's home planet.
All the inhabitants, including the slave
populations perished...only this
cylinder survived..a city in itself, made for exploring other star systems. It returned to find the war over...the Masters were in a desperate
predicament...nearly out of atomic fuel
and alone in the universe. They reached this planet, once inhabited by intelligent people, who had
resisted the Masters until the Masters
destroyed them. The surface was radioactive
and uninhabitable. They have been orbiting nearly 100 years. The Masters are yellow, the slaves are blue. The Toratons are green and wear yellow and orange.
LIFE
FORMS: An ape man starts the Space Mobile and takes off by accident, nearly killing Tam. Tim pushes
her down. Other hair covered ape men
capture Tam and Tim. Tim's red outfit looks orange
in more than one frame. The apes seal Tim and Tam in a ground hole with a block over it. June uses SS1 to try to scare the apes; Craig docks up with the
little ape child. June and Craig
exchange the little ape for Tim and Tam.
INSPIRATION:
It is hard not to think of PLANET OF THE APES and BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES as Tim and Tam explore an underground subway that was wrecked by the
Masters in the past war. The SS1's
docking has knocked the cylinder out of the sky.
It crashes, killing the Masters. Tim and Tam are trapped by cave ins underground but find their way
out.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
NOTE:
inside says SFR LIS ON SPACE STATION ONE
ISSUE:
52
DATE:
August 1977
TITLE:
BRIDGE OF AGES
COVER:
Through the time bridge...a fantastic journey!
NARRATION:
Lost in space, the Robinsons have landed on a barren G- type planet to prospect for selenium-an element used in their photo electric devices.
GEAR:
Tim and Tam watch movies on SS1--Tim watches BLAZING TRAILS again-they have both seen it 12 times;
another is MONTANA SKIES-seen 6
times.
OF
INTEREST: FANTASTIC JOURNEY was airing on TV soon with strange vortexes as mentioned in this issue. Also
the Arch seems to be like the STAR
TREK Guardian of Forever. The mountain range looks
a bit like the Robinson's first season planet on TV'S LOST IN SPACE.
CIRCUMSTANCES:
June felt the arch was going to make Craig vanish but it was too late--he already did. They figure they are on the same planet but in an earlier age.
LIFE
FORMS: A humanid with butterfly wings and antenna, orange body which collects blossom nectar hunted by a
monster giant spider! Craig fights it
and together he and the alien kill it. More
butterfly men take them to a dim hollow tower of clay. Sea monsters, army ants, spider giants, mothmen
BACKSTORY:
One alien, the ruler, recalls rocket ships of wingless aliens in purple and black suits who killed flying dragons, lived inside an enormous bubble dome, used
witchcraft and made the winged people
slave for them, feeding pollen and nectar to their
machines. One day the ground shook and mountains belched fire and destroyed the dome and the aliens
vanished--possibly to the cave of the
spiders. The one Craig saved, saves them from
a decree of death. The Old Priests are suspicious of humans without wings and may try to kill June and Craig at night.
GEAR:
Craig's laser tool helps June and he escape at once. They hide from giant ants who march in an army,
then cross a gorge with vines.
Beneath are sea monsters and serpents. The army ants carry off one dead ant, giving the pair of Earthlings a chance to get away. Craig had shot it--low
power in his gun. OUTCOME: Clancy tracks
June and Craig by scent to the arch. A thick jungle
survived, the parents encounter a moth man with a spear; they also fight a giant spider but more arrive; so do Tim and Tam and stop the spiders with the
landing rockets.
TIME
FRAME: A million years ago or more. They go back through the time bridge to their own time and thank
Clancy who is with them in the
spacemobile.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
53
DATE:
October 1977
TITLE:
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
STORY:
Gaylord Du bois
ART:
Dan Spiegle
COVER:
Found...Planet Earth! Is it Real or Illusion?
NOTE:
Top corner of cover only says SPACE FAMILY. Robinsons look like TV's LOST IN SPACE family wearing
silver spacesuits in what is one of
the best covers.
NARRATION:
After years of wandering, lost in space, Craig Robinson's
telescope spots something that raises hopes...
CIRCUMSTANCES:
The skyline's changed a lot but the Robinsons seem to land on Earth--wild domes, rocket planes, manta shaped ships, Mount Palomar Observatory spots them
and they land at Los Angeles
Spaceport. Tim tells a news man that robots rebuilt
their space drive. June sees human slaves. Both she and Tam feel dizzy and feel like they are back on SS1. The four go back to SS1 to use helmets THE WISE
ONES gave them-- helmets which protected
them on the PLANET OF DREAMS. SS1's magnetic
drive has been reversed and is stuck--it can't move. They see large domed headed aliens who labor for the GREAT ONE, digging for jewels and uranium.
GEAR:
The four use emergency packs and jet belts to fly.
ENEMIES:
In a palace designed after THE WIZARD OF OZ, the family encounter a giant disembodied face, the Great One which saw them in space a million miles away and
claims to know more about them than
they know about themselves. He wants to make them
"happy" but reveals he wants the SS1 to take him to another planet. This desert world isn't Earth
at all. The Great One is an amorphous
brain cluster of terrific powers, mass
living on atomic energy encased in a giant dome. It could fit inside the Space Station! A fire, the face
swallowing mom and dad, and a giant
black bird monster flying at them try to scare
them but are just holograms. The family jet pack's start a real fire. Guards use spears and ropes.
ALLIES:
The freed aliens are home, better off than the Robinsons since there is no place like home, Craig or
one of the family figures.
GEAR:
Aliens use wheeled land desert cars open at the top. TIMEFRAME: Craig mentions they have been lost
in space 15 years!
EXTRA
NOTE: Notice the WIZARD OF OZ connection.
ISSUE
54--may have been a reprint of TRAPPED IN SPACE-issue 43.
DATE:
January of 1978--? info is doubtful at best.
ISSUE
55-MENACE OF THE METAL EATERS-reprint of issue 15--now with Whitman logo
ISSUE
56-PRISONERS OF SPACE-reprint of issue 16.
ISSUE
57-RIVER FIRE-reprint of issue 17.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
ISSUE:
58 (now made by Whitman)
COPYRIGHT
DATE: 1966, 1969
TITLE:
SLEEP NO MORE, SIR THOMAS reprint of issue 18.
COVER:
same as issue 18, however with a different logo at an angle and a different company logo on the corner.
NEW
BACK UP STRIP: MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER: 4000 AD-JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE WORLD.
NOTE:
Smaller format. Cover price 60 cents (issue 18 was 12 cents).
ISSUE
59-PLAGUE SHIP reprint of issue 50
GOLD
KEY CHAMPION SPACE FAMILY ROBINSON LOST IN SPACE
NOTE:
Cover logo is SPACE: 1999 angle-ish and inside cover only has the addition of ON SPACE STATION ONE)
ISSUE:
Number 1
DATE:
March 1978; copyright date is 1963--?
TITLE:
THE KINGSTONE
SCRIPT:
Gaylord Du Bois
ART:
Dan Spiegle
COVER:
Space Family Robinson versus alien slave masters-in search of THE KINGSTONE!
NARRATION:
Captured by the crew of an alien spaceship, the Robinsons find they can understand their captor's telepathic talk...
LIFE
FORMS: Bear mutant crew members who help the Robinsons against the alien masters after Craig helps free
the animal people-- raccoon people,
bear people, Beaver and other sorts; the aliens take off and their damaged ship crashes and blows up; Bear steals a spacemobile to find the gem, the
Kingstone; Craig falls in quicksand
but Tim helps him out; Beaver feels Bear is dead;
they find an alien structure like a spiraled pyramid; a flying horror that swallowed Bear-black with a mouth as its main part; an opening in the pyramid Craig
falls into; area of building is like
Yellowstone Park;
OF
INTEREST: Tam dreams of seeing her school mate Sue Webster and puff...she's there or rather her soul is.
Sue looks a lot like Judy Robinson.
The Kingstone projected Tam's mind and image
back to Earth. Craig tosses it into
space and it falls into the valley of
the mists and blows up into pieces or at least
the animals think it did.
NOTE:
A kind of tired story.
BACKUP
STRIP: Reprint of RESCUE ON ASTEROID 48.
SPACE
FAMILY ROBINSON ANNUAL LOST IN SPACE!
COVER:
THE PIT OF DOOM!
INNER
COVER WRAP AROUND: PIT OF DOOM!
INNER
COVER PAGE: MIST OF DELUSION!
CONTENTS:
Operation Rescue, Prehistoric Planet, The Pit of Doom (comic), Space Station 75 (informational), Star-Trapped, The Mist of Delusion, The Duplicates.
UNRELATED
BUT UNKNOWN PIECE OF INFO:
ONWARD
COMICS
ULTRA
KLUTZ
NO.
17
PLACED
IN SPACE (logo of LOST IN SPACE TV SHOW)
COVER:
Ultra Klutz, the Robot from TV LOST IN SPACE in space, the Jupiter II.
YEAR:
DECEMBER 1987
CHARACTERS:
Dean (Don), Smyth (Smith), Professor Jan Irwinspawn (John), Jenny (Judy), Pudgy (Penny), Billy (Will), Maroon (Maureen), Jovial II (Jupiter II),
ALIENS:
Space Pirates from planet Kikass.
ART:
The Jupiter II is just like the TV one as are all the characters, a bit more silly like for this satire, like, you know. But is a lot more like LOST IN SPACE
on TV than you might imagine!
CRITIQUE:
A very fun comic book!
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