Space Family Robinson, Lost in Space on Space Station One #47 [Gold Key]

(April 1976)

"Helter Skelter" (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Beep Beep the Road Runner; Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

The Space-Jackers (Table of Contents: 2)

Space Family Robinson / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois (credited)

Pencils

Dan Spiegle (credited)

Inks

Dan Spiegle (credited)

Colors

Western Publishing Production Shop

Letters

Bill Spicer

First Line of Dialogue or Text

After a brief trip to a desert planet in their spacemobiles, the Robinsons are ready to return to their orbiting space station...

Feature Logo

Space Family Robinson Lost in Space on Space Station One [Multiple Lines]

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Craig Robinson; June Robinson; Tim Robinson; Tam Robinson; Clancy (dog); Yakker (parrot); group of captives from Earth; three aliens.

Synopsis

While exploring a desert planet with their spacemobiles, the Robinson's space station is hijacked by aliens and taken through a "space gate" where it joins a collection of Earth planes, trains, and ships each preserved under transparent domes. Another dome houses captive earthmen removed from a 1998 cargo plane, whom the pursuing Robinsons free by burning open the dome with the "under-rockets" of their spacemobiles. Three gaunt-looking aliens enter the space station, look around and move on, giving the Robinsons the opportunity to take back their station... and promptly leave.

Reprints

• in Die Actionhelden (Condor, 1978 series) #2 (1979)

Keywords

alien planet; Earth vehicles; Earthmen; hijacking; outer space setting; preservation domes; prisoners; space station; uncommon creator credits

Indexer Notes

Writer and artist are credited in the story's final panel, an uncommon practice for Western Publishing.

Despite a fascinating cover illustration and story premise, little or none of it "pays off" in this issue, which comes off as a series of events, one-after-another, with little connection and no explanation. Nothing in the story indicates a continuation in a future issue. Perhaps the Robinsons were just glad to get away with their space station intact...and maybe readers should be as well.