Covers from UFO Flying Saucers comic books (1968)

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UFO Flying Saucers enjoyed a 13-issue run in 1968. (Tip: If you buy the complete run for David, he will post your Kickstarter project to Boing Boing. [not really])

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signsofrain

Looks like those aliens set down in Riverdale, ’cause that redhead looks like Archie.
David Pescovitz

“(Tip: If you buy the complete run for David, he will post your Kickstarter project to Boing Boing. [not really])”

If the project is cool you’re damn right I will!
philipbarrett

Why are all aliens roughly our size? Considering the diversity of organisms on this planet aren’t we being a bit presumptuous?
- Ramone
  
  See “Destroy All Monsters” for extra terrestrials that don’t quite scale to human-size.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    Not to mention the gargon from Teenagers From Outer Space.
- chaopoiesis
  
  Good to see the artists involved covering the full spectrum of repressed sexuality.
http://twitter.com/ClaudioBonifazi CokePlusMentos

their shoes are cute
Jack_Spellman

I believe THEY are trying to tell the red-headed guy that he’s over the legal limit.
snakedart

Nostalgia-gasm! I have this very comic tucked away somewhere in the archives. Time to dig through the longboxes …
planettom

Most of these covers could be titled PRELUDE TO A PROBIN’.
- noah django
  
  “Talking without raising your hand, that’s a probin’. Anybody make’s fun of my helmet, that’s a probin’.”
  - gijoel
    
    ”Talkin’ about probin’, oh you better believe that’s a probin’
    - noah django
      
      huh. not every day a scrabble world champion replies to you on the internet. one love.
http://dailygrail.com/ Red Pill Junkie

That almost looked like a rather inaccurate artistic representation of the famous Pascagoula abduction case.

Problem is, that event happened in ’73.
Rickenbacker4001

I remember this issue. Clearly from looking at the cover, the aliens with their large noses and the proximity to the human’s armpit area, brought deodorant to Earth. The other human was poisoned from consuming contaminated pickeral. They nursed him back to health by quickly converting their bovine containment lab. Sometimes they do come in peace. Action packed cover to cover !
Chentzilla

Those look like Gamorreans.
- noah django
  
  I was gonna say the guards at Jabba’s compound. Then I wiki’d Gamorreans and realized that’s what you just said. （＾＾）Y☆Y(＾^ ）
  - Chentzilla
    
    I almost wrote Ugnaughts, then decided to check, and was both proud that I wrote the word right without looking, and ashamed that I chose the wrong species.
- Rich Keller
  
  They’re kind of like Sy Snoodles and the Gamorreans combined.
  - Chentzilla
    
    Just read the bio of Sy at Wookiepedia. Who’d have thought…
tpe123

I had that issue! Maybe it was a reissue, as I bought it in the 70s from a local grocery store stand. IIRC, the stories were retellings of the alleged UFO encounters, such as Lonnie Zamora and Betty and Barney Hill, that were the craze at the time and capturing the public imagination. Or at least my imagination.
penguinchris

Love the lettering of the title. Would be great on a t-shirt as-is (just the title, extracted).
http://twitter.com/PhilMoscovitch Philip Moscovitch

The aliens look quite similar to the ones on the cover of the issue of Journey Into Mystery that introduces Thor.
pjcamp

If you put monkeys in place of the aliens, it would be Men’s World.
http://artdonovan.typepad.com Art

Interstellar face eaters. Fer sure.