#vintage sci fi
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet - 1966 Scholastic Books adaptation of the original children’s sci-fi novel by Eleanor Cameron (1954). Illustration adaption by Robert Henneberger.
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The very stylish, Kosmostrator - Classic interplanetary spacecraft featured in the 1960 East German-Polish sci-fi co-production, The Silent Star (Der Schweigende Stern). The film was released in the US in 1962 - shortened and retitled, The First Spaceship On Venus. The storyline was set in 1985 and based on Polish writer Stanislaw Lem’s first sci-fi novel, The Astronauts (1951). This large scale production was the first to be shot in the ‘Totalvision’ widescreen process.
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Robur the Conqueror’s ‘The Terror’ - Gray Morrow illustration featured on the cover of Classics Illustrated No.163 (Gilberton, 1961).
Morrow’s action scene is based on Jules Verne’s famous novel, Master of the World. In this sequel novel, Robur had perfected a new invention, which he has dubbed the Terror. It was a ten-meter long vehicle, that is alternately speedboat, submarine, automobile, or aircraft. It could travel at the (then) unheard of speed of 150 miles per hour on land and at over 200 mph when flying.
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Beyond The Time Barrier (1960) - A pilot crashes through the time barrier into the world of 2024, inhabited by the last remnants of civilization. A Cold War era sci-fi time travel flick. Filmed in Texas in 10 days.
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