Race For the Moon #1 File Copy (Harvey, 1958) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Cream to off-white pages....

Auction amount: $448.12

Sold: Jun 26, 2011

Race for the Moon #1 Values

Publisher: Harvey, 1958

About Race for the Moon #1

Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, and Bob Powell art. Cover redrawn from the May 1953 issue of the Galaxy Science Fiction pulp magazine.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Scoop!... Report from Space

Pencils: Jack Kirby ?; Joe Simon ?

Inks: Marvin Stein ?

Letters: typeset

Notes: Kirby, Simon and Stein credits per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Mort Meskin on pencils and Al Williamson with inks.

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: Asylum

Synopsis: For thousands of years, an advanced planet had committed horribly insane people to a far-distant planet. But this time a mission is turned back by the now highly-advanced civilization on this distant planet: the planet Earth!

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Bob Powell

Inks: Bob Powell

Notes: Synopsis info by Craig Delich (Nov. 2005).

Title: Disc Jockey

Characters: Sam Webb; Lou; three Martians

Synopsis: Sam Webb is a radio station owner and a very unpopular disc jockey who will not take himself off the air. He's so bad that Martians, out of frustration, arrive and forcibly remove him from his post.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Bob Powell

Inks: Bob Powell

Title: The Invasion

Characters: Bill; May; John Bronheit; General Pierce; alien conqueror

Synopsis: A couple watch a TV news broadcast chronicling an alien invasion and are terrified when Earth's military forces are quickly defeated. Fearing for their lives, they pack and literally run for the hills. They don't hear the news announcer then reveal that the invasion broadcast was an "original tele-screen drama entitled The Invasion From Mars!".

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Bob Powell

Inks: Bob Powell

Notes: The story is obviously inspired by Orson Welles' famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast that stunned listeners on Halloween in 1938.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	1	2	1	2	3	0	3	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	23
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	1	2	1	2	3	0	3	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	24

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