Lot 388
Rocket to the Moon #nn Cover by Joe Orlando (Avon, 1951)
Northern Collection: From The Vault | CB26004
Auction: 6 November, 12:00 GMT
Description
Rocket to the Moon #nn Cover by Joe Orlando (Avon, 1951).
Cover by Joe Orlando. A science-fiction tale uncredited adaptation of "Maza of the Moon" by Otis Adelbert Kline. An American inventor becomes the first human to land an object on the moon, by firing a giant space-gun at it. To his surprise, the people of the moon fire back. When he visits the satellite, he becomes caught up in the conflict between two warring peoples, one of which is ruled by a beautiful moon-princess. Story by Walter Gibson and art by Charles Nicholas for the first chapter and Joe Orlando for chapter two to four. Also featuring a Flash Harper backup story. 36 pages, full colour. Cover price $0.10.
Grade: 1.5, FR/GD. Corner missing bottom right of cover, stress lines and tears around staples, lines across cover that breaks colour, wear and rips down spine, tanning to cover, pieces missing from right side of front cover, tanning to back cover, chips and pieces missing to bottom of back cover, two tears to side of back cover with pieces missing, hole to bottom right of back cover, tanning to both interior pages, and brown to tanned pages.
