Comic Adventures Vol. VI #1
Crash Carew: Daredevil Of The Stratosphere
On the first page Crash's ship is traveling earthward when they run into a shower of meteorites.
Meteorites is what they are called after they land. In a atmosphere thet are called meteors. In space they are either meteoroids or asteroids.

Super Science Thrills
In Search Of Atlantis
David & Jim shoot various undersea monsters with radio-active bullets. Radio-active bullets? Now either the bullets hit something vital and kill the creature whereby you don't need them to be radioactive, or the radiation is so high that it can kill a creature in a few minutes just by being inserted in the creature. Either way it seems rather foolhardy & dangerous to be firing radioactive bullets around. Pretty soon the whole sea floor with be glowing & all the life down there will be dead or dying.

Swift Morgan
Swift Morgan And The Flying Saucers
They're on a rocket that's flying to Mars & as soon as they leave Earth's gravity Professor Mooney tells Swft to, "collect those utensils floating in air and put them in a cupboard."
1. As I understand it, as long as the rocket has forward momentum everything will be pulled down to the floor, so the utensils shouldn't be floating.
2. Who left the utensils out in the first place?
3. Two panels earlier the professor said the ship was magnetized and gave Swift steel soled shoes so he wouldn't float around. Unless the utensils were plastic or something, shouldn't the magnetism hold them down?

Scoops Comic
Rex Cosmo: Cosmic Scientist in the year AD 2000
Spaceships, space pirates, Martians, Plutonians & some kind radioactive mineral called Xranium in the year 2000.

Nope. Don't remember any of that stuff 3 years ago. ;-)

Rex & Stella don't have any kind of breathing apparatus while on Pluto.

Also a flaming crater exists on Pluto. IIRC Pluto is mostly frozen ammonia & methane. A fire might turn the whole planet into a gas ball.

Modern Comics
Pat Peril In The Land Of The Lizard
Pat's ship is flying through space, when they pass through a planet's nitrogen atmosphere and his engines won't burn in it. Why not? The engines worked perfectly fine in airless space.

They land on the planet and Pat puts on an oxygen helmet and leaves the ship. The only other thing he is wearing is a pair of swim trunks. Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh, I step out on an alien planet I don't want one of them bulky space suits getting in my way.

Also he's armed with a knife instead of a raygun. This guy is Mensa material I tell ya.

He's attacked by a giant dinosaurian lizard and he runs up a hill because reptiles don't like height, sees they have built a city which means they have an "evil intelligence" and later destroys the whole planet because he believes they are a menace to space travel.

Lone Star Magazine #1
Journey to Zimbolus
On May 27, 1969 the spaceship Lone Star 1 blasts off from Gopher Gulch, Texas, to the planet Zimbolus.

Funny, I don't remember reading about that in history class.

Spaceman
Captain Future
"In the year 1986, man at last broke the chains that bound him to the Earth!"
Boy, when writers don't underestimate when we'll do something they overestimate.

Laurie's Space Annual
Death Of A Planet
"Since the advent of space travel in 1995". Overestimation.

The World Of Space
"It was said there could be no such things as gas, electricity".
Did people really say there could be no such things as gas or electricty?

"War with Mars? Battles in Space? Impossible!, they will say. But they will most probably be wrong."
I think the only way the first thing could happen is if humans set up a colony on Mars. And I think we'd need a lot more ships before we get to the battles in space.

David & Jim shoot various undersea monsters with radio-active bullets. Radio-active bullets? ...

While radioactive bullets for pistols against monsters haven't come true, radioactive munition has been used in the last ca. 10 years by some NATO forces in Yugoslavia and the US forces in the two Iraq wars. Its low-grade plutonium (I think), which comes quite cheap (from nuclear power plants) but is (strangely enough) a very strong metal (stronger than steel) which is used effectively to shoot at enemy tanks. The negative part is that when the shell is shot, it raises a huge amount of radioactive dust, which, although low-grade, is still not good for the soldiers on the battlefield or the people who live in this country afterwards - greatly increased cancer risk, etc.

On May 27, 1969 the spaceship Lone Star 1 blasts off from Gopher Gulch, Texas, to the planet Zimbolus.

Funny, I don't remember reading about that in history class.

It was a secret Texas project, and it was at night, so nobody saw it.

The Road To Glory Saber Picture Library #47 Reprinted in The Mammoth Book Of Best War Comics
Page 11, Panel 1. "With a suddenness that seared his nerved to breaking point"
Nerves, not nerved.

Page 14, Panel 2. The Nazi word balloon is pointing to the Englishman.

Acromaid Comics

Cover reads "The greatest character since the birth of comics!!!"
First Rule of Hype: 99% of the time it's a complete lie. ;-)

Okayyyyyy... a man is being operated on at Mercy hospital when a man beaks a window to the operating theatre to shoot the patient. After nurse Christine (Acromaid) McCall throws a scalpel into the gunman's hand he runs away.
Didn't English hospitals in 1947 have security guards?

After the operation Christine injects truth serum into the patient.
I hope there is no danger of a bad reaction between the truth serum & whatever other drugs are in his system.

Acromaid doesn't wear any mask or have any logo on her "costume" (basically a red cocktail dress, flared gloves & folded-top boots), but the criminals immediately know her as Acromaid when she appears.
That would seem to indicate that maybe pictures of her as Acromaid must exist, so does this mean that all of Christine's co-workers might know her other identity?

Acromaid & Brutus fall from the trapeze, but the net breaks because it wasn't strong enough for two people.
So the circus only has one trapeze artist performing at a time?

After breaking through the net Acromaid is able to grab onto another trapeze.
Wait, what?
At a guess, I'd say the trapeze was maybe ten feet off the ground while the net itself was, at least, 25 feet, which seems strange to me.

The Tornado was reporter Steve Storm who would change into a masked hero.

Masters Of The Moon! Oh Boy! #13

Page 2, Panel 6. Brent calls The Tornado "Steve".
How did Brent know the Tornado was Steve Storm, they only just met on the previous page.

Despite coming from the moon, the Moonmen are stronger than Earthmen.

Grungy nitpicking. The moon has life & an atmosphere.

The Moonmen have as slaves the descendents of Earthmen who came to the moon many thousands of years ago, but somehow they speak English.

Not really a nit, just a news item.

England's longest running comic, The Dandy, will stop printing on it's 75th anniversary.

Plans are underway for a digital only version.

Captain Valiant was a space hero with the Interplanetary Police Patrol, and apparently his comic was intended as a way to sell merchandise based on him. *shrug*

Outpost On The Moon Space Comics #50

On page one they say an "identified" rocket landed, but on page 2 it becomes "unidentified" (and contextually unidentified would have been better on page 1.)

Page 2. Rather than use a plastic vacuum helmet Captain Valiant takes some oxygen pellets.
Okayyyyyyy... the pellets may let him "breathe" on the surface of the moon, but what will protect him from the vacuum and the radiation?

Page 2, Panel 5. Caption reads, "Outpost 723 - one of the small outposts on the moon, established by the Interplanetary Police Patrol - to counter space raiders known to be heading towards Earth"
Writer Mick Anglo did realize that the moon orbits and doesn't always stay on the side of Earth where space invaders would come from, right?

Valiant escapes, it's been three days since he ate, and he finds a table set out with food. Then we see him eating and clean-shaven.
So he's starving, but he takes the time to shave first?

Page 15, Panel 4. "Galax - a small planet a million miles distant from the dark side of the moon"
*twitch twitch*
1. The "dark side of the moon" is just whatever half is away from the sun, and heck, when the moon is eclipsed by the Earth the whole thing becomes the "dark side".
2. IIRC the Earth is a quarter of a million miles from the moon so a million miles away from the moon is not really that far. Heck even a billion miles would still have it be in our solar system.

Mission to Somnos

They are on a mission to chart the planet Somnos in the Arctovus constellation.
There is no Arctovus constellation.

They mention meteorite shower & meteor shower.
Meteorite is a space rock on the surface of a planet. Meteor is a space rock burning up in an atmosphere. Meteoroids is what they are called in space.

While they are the first to land and walk around on this planet they aren't really doing a good job of exploring it. I mean they land wander around (on foot & jet packs) encounter various life forms, discover a ruined city and then leave. Basically just playing space tourist. They don't snap any photos, mark locations on maps (and really the planet should have been mapped from orbit) nor do they take samples of some of the things they encounter. This isn't an exploration, it's a day trip.

Rather than use a plastic vacuum helmet Captain Valiant takes some oxygen pellets.
Okayyyyyyy... the pellets may let him "breathe" on the surface of the moon, but what will protect him from the vacuum and the radiation?

This is not the first time I see oxygen pills used for that purpose. This was also the method used by the characters in the 1962 supermarionation tv series Fireball XL5. And I remember having the same misgivings about those pills, even though I was quite young at the time I watched this program.

They are on a mission to chart the planet Somnos in the Arctovus constellation.
There is no Arctovus constellation.

Nor is there a constellation of Kasterborous, where Gallifrey is supposed to reside. I think that in this context, the term "constellation" might refer to a loose association of stars instead of a star pattern seen in the sky. Many of our constellations, like Orion, Scorpius or Ursa Major turned out to be such real stellar associations. The term might have been adopted as space was explored and charted.

Well, the Doctor is not from Earth and never said Kasterborous was an Earth constellation. (Although why he would be identifying his home planet in some other planet's constellation is puzzling.)

Captain Valiant, on the other hand, is based on Earth & therefore it would seem that if he needed to use a constellation to locate a star (rather inefficient, actually when one could simply use numerical coordinates) it seems more likely he would use an Earth constellation rather than the constellations of another planet.

This was also the method used by the characters in the 1962 supermarionation tv series Fireball XL5. And I remember having the same misgivings about those pills

Yes, especially since the side effects include locking your face in one expression and walking like you're a puppet on strings. ;-)

The Smurfs are annoying blue creatures from a popular French series.

The Smurf Submarine original publication unknown Translated & reprinted in Geronimo Stilton And The Smurfs (Papercutz/NBM)

Page 2, Panel 1. Handy Smurf refers to another Smurf as Handy Smurf.
Boy, when even Smurfs can't tell the difference between themselves... ;-)

A Bit Of Madness original publication unknown, translated & reprinted in A Bit Of Madness (Checker)

A dragon is referred to as "Nicodeme" on Page 35, but is "Nicomede" on Page 162 & the character list.

On Page 74 we are introduced to "Odymus Gaumede", but on Page 158, Igguk refers to him as "Odymus Galim De".

Serenade #18

The first line of dialogue on the cover is funny, or perhaps scary, to read in a post-Me Too age.

I'm guessing this was published a few decades ago.

A company publishing that now would be burned to the ground!

Yeah, 1963. Back when it was common for women to become secretaries so they could snag a husband.

'Serenade' didn't last long. It came towards the end of the boom in British teenage romance comics, which had begun in the mid-1950s but was soon to be superseded by the likes of DC Thomson's 'Jackie'.

They published a few comics like that back then, Night Nurses and such. Where young nurses drooled over handsome doctors.