Astronauts in Trouble : Space 1959 [Paperback]

Larry Young (Author), Charlie Adlard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2000

The story of Col. Lloyd Macadam’s top-secret moon-shot program located in Peru is discovered only after the death of a janitor in the U.S. is investigated by the newly formed Channel Seven television station’s top news team. Macadam’s plans are accelerated when a Russian spy commandeers the rocket and the Colonel must choose between his country and his life. A period adventure featuring an earlier generation of the Channel Seven newshounds from Astronauts In Trouble: Live From The Moon, Space: 1959 has got film-noir murder, the race to win the Cold War, the first man on the moon, and an elegant and poignant finale from a story that SFX says `surpasses the excellence of the original.`

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"If there's a bigger picture here, it's about destiny...it's like nothing else being offered in comics today." -- Kurt (Astro City) Busiek

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Writer Larry Young has read comics since before he could actually read. He didn’t start writing them until 1999, though, with the script for the inaugural miniseries Astronauts In Trouble: Live From The Moon. This spawned a prequel, Astronauts In Trouble: Space 1959, and a sequel, Astronauts In Trouble: One Shot, One Beer, as well as the script collection, The Making Of Astronauts In Trouble. He has written scripts and the series bible for the Image/Motown series Casual Heroes as well as the scripts for "The Bod" and "Trust in Me" for the Image series, Double Image. He lives in San Francisco and is the publisher of AiT/Planet Lar.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: AIT-Planet Lar (August 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967684730
• ISBN-13: 978-0967684734
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,947,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you believe they put a man on the Moon ..., September 5, 2000

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Adrian Brown "Purple Kool Ade" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Astronauts in Trouble : Space 1959 (Paperback)

in the Fifties, when the space race was running. The USA and Communist Russia were making secret plans. This graphic novel tells a tale of the people who became entangled in the race almost by accident of being reporters at the dawn of TV journalism.

The three part story ranges from pulp detective thriller to Sci Fi B movie to a combination of illustrated poetry and spy-thriller.

Investigating a murder takes our Channel 7 crew and their company-appointed "minder" to a secret US government project, and the inestimable Colonel Lloyd Macadam. He is not about to let those meddling reporters, commie subversives or other hindrances come in the way of the USA claiming the Moon.

You do not need to have read "Astronauts in Trouble: Live from the Moon" (for which Space 1959 is a prequel) but because of the exciting use of different styles of comic story-telling, you might want to get to know that one first.

They both make a fitting gift for a comics reader, a space fan, an adventure movie buff or anyone who enjoys good stories.