UFOs are, by nature, odd and mysterious things that are frequently confusing to the perceptions. So i guess it's rather natural that the comics seem to follow suit.
I mentioned last time that
Gold Key's book,
UFO Flying Saucers, continued for another 6 issues beyond the 7 issues that i originally had on hand. And that
Whitman published another 5 issues.
(Note that Gold Key and Whitman are both divisions of the same company - Western Publishing) While digging through the archives last night, i found another 12 issues from Gold Key - they changed the title to
UFO & Outer Space with issue #14. The series continued through #25 in 1980.
And so the stack has grown...
Meanwhile, we've got more of the speculative pieces from those first seven. Eschewing dramatic presentation structures, let's open with perhaps the most interesting speculative possiblity -
ARE THE UFOS LIVING BEINGS? (art by
George Roussos)
WHO FLIES THE SAUCERS??? (art by
Frank Bolle)
WHERE DO FLYING SAUCERS COME FROM? (art by
Luiz Dominguez)
Of course, it's always good to have a handy identification guide for spotting UFOs...
MODERN TYPES OF UFOS AND FLYING SAUCERS (script by
Leo Dorfman, art by
Rocco Mastroserio)
UFO'S THE SHAPE THEY'RE IN (art by Luiz Dominguez)
As mentioned previously, much of the book was dedicated to case studies of UFO encounters. We haven't looked at any of those as yet, so let's close out this post with a story that combines those with the speculative works which we've been viewing...
DO CREATURES FROM OUTER SPACE WALK THE EARTH??? (art by Frank Bolle)
"It is possible that somewhere in the universe, someone is reading a horror story about a fellow creature who explored a distant planet and was attacked by four horrible little bipeds."
Yeah. I can see that.
"Horrible little bipeds" being how human beings were known to galactic society seems believable.
(Hermit, remember?)
page art from UFO Flying Saucers #s 1, 4, 6, & 7 (1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1975)
