Spaced Monkees

I made mention this past week of it being no secret that i was a fan of The Monkees. I later realized that most of my previous talk of the group had actually been elsewhere during that period when i was getting out to other blogs and forums to participate on a regular basis. (Hopefully, that will resume before too much longer.) Meanwhile, the need for more Monkees seems quite fitting while we've been rummaging through the Groovy Age. So let's spend part of this weekend indulging in a bit of Monkeemania.

A few months back, i spoke of having discovered the UK Annuals for The Monkees, and in that piece i ran this panel sequence:

That sequence is the opening of a short tale from the '68 Annual. Why don't we follow along and see what happens, eh?

Meanwhile, back in the USA, the boys were having quite different encounters with the military...

Of course, we all knew that they were launching monkees into space back then. But it wasn't the last time the boys would cavort off-world...

...but that's a different story entirely.

art by ?? from The Monkees Annual #2 (UK) and art by Jose Delbo for The Monkees #s 3 & 13(Dell) (1967,1968)