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Issue: Space Family Robinson, Lost in Space on Space Station One #56

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Publication Date: July 1981

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Issues: #56 of 22 Issues (34 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Western

Brand: Whitman

Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.

On Sale Date: 05/21/1981

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.50 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 2 (1 story, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: On sale date from the Comic Reader #191.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In0

There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.

Reprinted From1

1 Content Item
- Prisoners of Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (2 total)

Prisoners of Space

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Craig Robinson; Tim Robinson; Tam Robinson; Kormat guards; Dreephars (alien prisoners in semi-liquid form)

First Line: The Robinsons live a nightmare as space prisoners change their shapes and take over the space stations!

Synopsis: In Space Station One's Sun Deck, escaped Dreephars, alien prisoners in an alternate semi-liquid form, seize Tam as Craig, Tim, and the Kormat guards come to her aid.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: This cover is based on the cover to Space Family Robinson Lost in Space (Western, 1966 Series) #16 (April 1966). https://www.comics.org/issue/19976/#147537

Differences between this cover and the original printing include different and fewer spacecraft in the background, no oxygen-producing plants in the background, a more muted color palette, slightly different character positioning, and a noticeable variation in the cover copy.

Aside from a bolder, italicized font, the copy reads "The Robinsons live a nightmare as space prisoners change their shapes and take over the space stations!" (Plural) The original cover copy ended as "...space station!" (Singular)

Prisoners of Space

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Craig Robinson; June Robinson; Tim Robinson; Tam Robinson; Clancy (dog); Yakker (parrot); Regnar (Kormat alien); Kormat guards; Dreephars (alien prisoners); Kormat soldiers; Kormat commanding officer

First Line: The space station, manned by the scientists Craig and June Robinson, and their teen-age son and daughter, has broken loose from its Earth orbit and is now adrift in trackless space...

Synopsis: The Kormats commandeer Space Station One to transport five Dreephar prisoners to the Kormat homeworld. The Dreephars take advantage of the unique conditions of the space station to change themselves to a semi-liquid form and take over the station.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Space Family Robinson Lost in Space #16 published April 1966
was Prisoners of Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 23

Notes: Connection with the Lost in Space television series: "The Prisoners of Space" (1966) was the title of Season 2, Episode 6. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0636236/

Artist Dan Spiegle's signature appears in the story's final panel.

This story contains two dialogue balloon spelling errors:

Page 20, panel 2: Tim Robinson: "The Dreephars are trying to force the hatch from the air DUCK!" [duct]

Page 22, panel 4: June Robinson refers to the alien prisoners as "Dreephers". rather than Dreephars.

These errors were carried over from the original printing in Space Family Robinson Lost in Space (Western, 1966 Series) #16 (April 1966).