Space Adventures (1952 1st series) comic books

Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Dick Giordano, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Bill Molno and Maurice Whitman. Sci-fi and super-heroics from Charlton Comics. Only one man knows that human-appearing robots are plotting the takeover of Earth. An astronaut's cousin is contacted by strange aliens in his dreams, in a story that makes an early reference to "the NASA." Gary and Paula are captured by aliens collecting human specimens. Plus a comics biography of frontiersman Daniel Boone. Dream On; Terror Dynasty; Never Talk to Strangers; The Thought Taker; The Visitors; You Could Be One; American Pioneer. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Bill Molno, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia. Sci-fi and super-heroics from Charlton Comics. Strange bubbles descend from space and cause millions of Earth's citizens to vanish. His ship shot down, an astronaut crashes on a strange planet, unarmed and at the mercy of the winged men of Odna, who look like Adam Strange's Thanagarians, but with Angel's wings. A human and a cat-man must join forces to escape a hostile planet in the Silent Galaxy. Bubble Barrage; Death Has No Voice; Unknown Cosmos; The Strangest Story; Wings Of Odna; Ordeal. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Cover by Bill Montes and Ernie Bache. Stories and art by Maurice Whitman, Dick Giordano, Bill Molno, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia. Sci-fi and super-heroics from Charlton Comics. As the other planets make friendly offers to communicate, Earth's militant xenophobia leaves it isolated and shunned among the people of the galaxy. A female astronaut meets crystal-beings after crash-landing on a diamond-like planet. Invading aliens move so fast that human perception cannot register them. Island Earth; Awaiting World; Still Alive - In 1965?; The Wink of an Eye; The Men in the Moon; American Pioneer. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Bill Molno and others. Sci-fi and super-heroics from Charlton Comics. An invading alien force has technology and weapons that Earth cannot match, but humanity still has one hidden power left. A being from the future tries to explain himself to the military after his time-ship crashes in the 20th century. An Earth soldier is captured by the bug-like Xanians and interrogated telepathically, but it's all a ruse by Earth's espionage forces. The Ultimate Weapon; Come Back to Yesterday; Run 1,000,000 Miles; Meet Me on Mars; Deadly Prey; The Survivors; The Prisoner. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Bill Molno, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio and Dick Giordano. Sci-fi and super-heroics from Charlton Comics. Mysterious rains cause anyone they touch to fall deeply asleep with silly smiles on their faces; then the aliens attack. In another story, aliens desiring Earth's resources just pick up the whole planet and move it to their solar system. Astronauts exploring a new planet are attacked by dinosaurs, and even more weirdly, the beasts seem controlled by a human voice. The Sleep Rain; Conversations in Space; The View from a Satellite; The Earth Snatchers; World of Terror. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Bill Molno and others. Sci-fi and super-heroics from Charlton Comics. Astronauts exploring beneath the "seas" of Jupiter are attacked by gray Gill-Man-like creatures. Eartrhmen feel they're braving the dangers of the universe to explore new worlds - but the women of the planet Lugo don't quite see it that way. One lone human is all that stands between Earth and an alien invasion. The Fishermen of Jupiter; The Captive; When the Air Froze; The Birthday Present; All Alone; Space Narcosis. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Bill Molno and Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio. Sci-fi and super-heroics from Charlton Comics. Earth disregards the ethereal aliens from Orago until they attack, using science so advanced it's like magic. They turn Earth's animals against the humans - and that's just the first offensive. Humorless aliens prepare to wipe out "frivolous" humanity for its propensity for jokes, but then they get a look at animated cartoons. An analyst struggles to understand communications from the gigantic, impossibly advanced spaceship that is approaching Earth. Spell Casters; The Reformers; Exile on Exiloso; The Intruder; Victory of the Ditros. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Cover by Dick Giordano. Stories and art by Bill Molno and Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio. Sci-fi and super-heroics from Charlton Comics. Hideous aliens making war on Earth learn how to disguise themselves as beautiful Earth women. All life on Earth finds it unnerving when a gigantic eye appears in space, staring down at the planet without blinking. Alien invaders turn out to be vulnerable to one of the most common Earth substances. Plus a vintage ad for "Giant 8x10 Glossy Photos of Your Favorite [Universal] Monsters"! The Guise of Beauty; The Eye in Space; Film Phantasia; The Isotope Man; We Are Among You; Black Omen. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.

Cover art by Dick Giordano. "The Imitator's War," pencils by Dick Giordano; Cydan is a planet with a race of master imitators; They seek to make the cold war between Earth and Lustra an all-out war by imitating and attacking. "Mistake of the Finites"; The Finites think that man will have evolved into a smaller weaker being; They attack Earth and find mankind larger than they are so they turn tail and fly home. "Capture Earth" text story. "The Throwbacks," pencils by Charles Nicholas, inks by Vince Alascia; An 835 year old time capsule is opened releasing three criminals into a nonviolent world; A man finally fights back and the criminals are returned to suspended animation. "City of the Future," art by Bill Molno. "Forbes Force," pencils by Charles Nicholas, inks by Vince Alascia; Earthman Forbes is captured by the Venusians and stranded on a planet; He imagines an army of his fallen comrades defeating the enemy. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.12.

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Cover by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio. Stories and art by Denny ONeil, Melonius Thunk, Pat Boyette, and Jim Aparo. Sci-fi and super-heroics from Charlton Comics. A flying saucer ends a longstanding mountain-family feud and heals a dying boy. (The hilariously pen-named artist for this story, "Melonius Thunk," may actually be Norman Nodel.) Paul Mann, the new protagonist of "Space Adventures," gets help from an alien when a spy threatens to steal germ-warfare secrets. The alien then reveals himself to be from the future, seeking Paul's help in preventing a future war, in a story with early art by future Batman artist Jim Aparo. The entire issue is written by legendary comics scribe Denny O'Neil, billed as " Sergius O'Shaughnessy." Healers from Nowhere; The Plague; The Secret of the Saucer. Final issue of the series; followed by Space Adventures (1967 2nd series) less than a year later. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.12.