Race for the Moon #02
Jack Kirby and Al Williamson · PD
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Blast off into a new age of discovery where every planet hides a deadly secret and no man is safe! This sci-fi anthology collects four pulse-pounding tales of cosmic wonder: a captain spots a space creature clinging to an old Soviet satellite, a mineralogist is caught in a lunar crossfire between Russian soldiers and a giant rock-throwing beast, a dead astronaut is resurrected by a mysterious organism within Jupiter’s Red Eye, and explorers on the Red Planet uncover a psychic history…
27 pages · 130 panels · every panel read aloud, every balloon voiced, with sound effects and soundscapes.
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How “Race for the Moon #02” begins
Every balloon from the first pages, as it is read aloud:
Race for the moon
Scoop!… the thing on sputnik 4!
He was drifting into jupiters big red eye!
Race for the moon
Spine-tingling action and adventure where no man has ever been!
A new concept in comics geared to the dawn of the space age!
In this issue
Listen--hear that? That's the sound on a man-made satellite -- 1000 miles above the earth-- it's the thing on sputnik 4
And on the moon an invisible enemy waits, plotting a lunar trap
From the moon to the red planet!-- where you will see the great eyes that look out across the ages! And they have a story to tell! Listen to the giant face on mars
A spot bigger than the earth! What is the red spot on jupiter? Dare to find out in island in the sky
Get set to blast off for this exciting adventure into space!
Man is new in space! He has yet to learn what he's up against on his road to the stars! Here is the report of one such encounter--a man on the trail of trouble--and--
The thing on sputnik 4
I remember the exact moment when that thing from space came barreling in toward the big wheel!
Take four men, sergeant! I want you to pick up that object!
The men didn't call me major kelly then. I still had my captain's bars, and it was my crew that brought the thing in…
We've got it, sir!
I ordered it brought in--because the common variety of meteor wasn't shaped like that…
Haul it into the inspection lock, men! I'll look it over!
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