Captain Rocket #1

The Graveyard Of The Rocketeers

They're trying to save a navigator whose every muscle has been frozen in place, and he's still alive and conscious.
Some trick considering the heart is a muscle and without that, staying alive would be difficult.

The rocket is flying through space and one of the problems is “High meteorite pressures”.
Meteorites are what they're called when they are found on a planet, in space they are meteoroids.

Final panel. Argo asks, "How did you manage not to fall under her spell, captain?" & Captain Rocket answers, “You forget that anti-hypno band I developed”.
Yeah, you know, the one that was never mentioned before in this story. *rolls eyes*


Monsteroids Of The Underworld

For when odinary monsters aren't enough? Not actual monsters, just an incredible simulation? Some kind of eternal damnation that make hemmorhoids seem like a walk in the park? ;-)

NANJAO. I found this oddly amusing. The hero is reviewing an event of eons past, the year 1962 (which was 11 years later then when this story was published in 1951.)

In 1962, Gorgo, leader of a race of men who live under the Earth's crust, dropped his last atomic bomb on New York City.
Man, I can't find this information on Wikipedia's entry on New York, nor on Atomic bombs. It's like there's a conspiracy to hide this event. ;-)

Captain Rocket is reviewing the electron-memory tube for information on Gorgo & surprisingly it mentions events after Gorgo & his people sealed themselves away under the swamp.
How did the makers of that memory tube get that information?


Pirate Of The Stratosphere

Errrrrrrggg... sometimes these stories will draw an analogy to something earthbound that isn't accurate, but the reader can suspend his disbelief to enjoy the story. Then sometimes they go too far. This story features an idea that in deep space people have to be pressurized to survive, just like divers have to be pressurized for deep water.
Yeahhhhhhhhh...


The Man Who Wanted A World

Oh, great, another loser running for president.

There was a great atomic upheaval in 1980.
Funny, I don't remember that. Maybe I was watching something on another channel when it happened?

The villain is Tal-Jar of Krypton.
He doesn't look like a Kryptonian... ;-) Funny as it is to see Krypton used as a planet by another publisher, I'm not sure that DC's Krypton was that well-known in 1951, as most Superman stories focused on Earth and rarely dealt with his heritage, that wouldn't start until 1958. Still one wonders why the writer chose that name?

Tal-Jar used projections of dragons to convince the people he had monsters invading Earth.
Bwha? Did nobody examine the sites to see damage or evidence of a rampaging monster?

In 1962, Gorgo, leader of a race of men who live under the Earth's crust, dropped his last atomic bomb on New York City.
Man, I can't find this information on Wikipedia's entry on New York, nor on Atomic bombs. It's like there's a conspiracy to hide this event. ;-)

Very likely considering there are no records of the time Gorgo stomped all over London to rescue a kidnapped offspring either