The Illustrated Story of Space (Classics Illustrated) (1959)

This is the cover you would have found on the American edition of this comic book and this is the British cover:

I like how they chose to "flip" the image.

Classics Illustrated were comics books intended to educate as well as entertain.  They often were fictional "classic" books in comic book form such as Moby Dick. They also had a special series called "The World around Us." These were non-fiction comic books about topics of interest.

Classics Illustrated. Illustrated by McCann, Gerald, Glanzman, Sam, and Tartaglione, John. The Illustrated Story of Space. Classics Illustrated. (80 p.) 26 cm. Softcover.


Contains illustrated stories on training for space, the first rocket to the Moon, the history and use of the rocket, the launch of Vanguard 1, and the construction of a space station. "The World Around Us" (#5) January 1959.

"These are no longer the dreams of science fiction. They are part of real life."
 

The excitement of assembling a space station
 

Just page after page of excitement about what was just around the corner...
 

The ship they chose for the landing on the Moon seems a little odd.  Why carry a winged plane all the way to the Moon when you will leave and return to a space station?
 
 

I also love the angle they chose for this illustration. You really feel like you are climbing down to the surface.
 

"When you're ready to go to the planets, sir, I'll be standing by!"

KARAMELLİ PORTAKALI ETİMEK TATLISI

MALZEMELER
MUHALLEBİSİ
1 Litre süt (5 su bardağı)
1 su bardağı un
1 su bardağı şeker
1 yemek kaşığı tereyağ
1 paket vanilya
1 paket kremşanti
PORTAKAL PELTESİ İÇİN
1su bardağı portakal suyu
4 yemek kaşığı şeker
1 yemek kaşığı nışasta 
KARAMELİ İÇİN
1 su bardağı şeker
2 su bardağı su
Etimek 
YAPILIŞI
Etimekler borcama dizilir, 1 su bardağı şeker tavada  çok yakmadan kremalize olması beklenir,  üzerine soğuk su dökülerek şeker eriyene kadar kaynatılır,şerbet kıvamına gelince  ateşten alınır,etimeklerin üzerlerine dökülür.
Muhallebisi için 5 su bardağı süt ,1 subardağı un ,1 su bardağı şeker birlikte devamlı karıştırılarak pişirilir, 1 yemek kaşığı tereyağ eklenir yağ eriyince ateşten alınır,vanilyası ilave edilir,soğuması beklenir soğuyunca 1 paket kremşanti ilave edilip 3-4 dakika mikserle çırpılır, hazırlanan muhallebi  etimeklerin üzerine düzgün bir şekilde yayılır.
Peltesi için 1 su bardağı portakal suyu şeker, nışasta pişirilir, muhallebinin üzerine yerleştirilip soğumaya bırakılır, bir gün dinlenirse daha güzel oluyor, buzdolabında enaz 4-5 saat beklemesi gerekiyor.
NOT: MUTLAKA DENEMENİZİ TAVSİYE EDİYORUM ÇOK NEFİS BİR TATLI TADAN HERKES ÇOK BEĞENİYOR AFİYET OLSUN
Bu  NEFİS TATLIYI  mandalina ve portakallı lezzetler etkinliğine ev sahipliği yapan sevgili Yıldız 'a gönderiyorum.

Space Patrol Official Handbook (1952)

This is a re-run for you fans of my old Dreams of Space site but I wanted to tell the story again.

This is a booklet that I was amazed to find and even more amazing was that the only mention of it was buried in the introduction of a totally different book I had read 8 months before I ever saw this book. And it has nothing to do with the old Space Patrol TV series.

From the Introduction to Space Aces! Comic Book Heroes from the Forties and Fifties by Denis Gifford 1992.

"My own entry into the sci-fi world really happened in 1952. I was drawing 'Flip and Flop' and other comic characters for Mick Anglo's comic-books when I conceived my great idea. Within a month I had compiled and launched Space Patrol Official Handbook, from the Space Patrol Headquarters, 16 Sydenham Park, SE26! 'Your Passport to the Planets', as I advertised it, contained 'Everything you want to know about the Life on Other Planets, Space Suits, Spacecraft Recognition, Insignia, Interplanetary Languages - plus Space Patrol Membership Certificate! Secret Codes of the Spaceways! Interplanetary Passport! Gazetteer of the Galaxy! Real Photographs of Spaceships! (pinched from space films, of course) and the Space Man's Code of Honour!' Also a 'Free Jet-ex Jet-propelled Rocket Ship in Easy Competition! - It Flies!' All this and more in one twenty-page blue-covered booklet for a one-and-sixpenny Postal order! A word of warning - don't send a 1s 6d PO to SPHQ, will you? I sold out and moved! Anyway, as there are only two known copies left, the Handbook would now cost a little more than seven and a half pence!"


There was even a copy of the old advertisement he had reproduced in the book:

Well with only 2 copies around I never thought I would see this book in my space book hunting.

The booklet is a marvel of homemade early science fiction fandom. It mixes movies, old science fiction ideas, and a dash of space science.

Since it is so "rare" I am happy to share with you this essential guide to spaceflight.

As you can see he was shameless in borrowing from the science fiction films of the time.

The question is this raises is simple. Is this a unique item?  It is certainly obscure but I have had some else write me to say that they had one too.  So is this simply amateur science fiction or is it the ultimate expression of that child within us that wants to tell everyone about how cool spaceflight is?

I think the guy was hoping to make a little money off of cashing in on the latest fad. This book represents to me why I started collecting these things. They are obscure and forgotten but someone needs to save them and make sure future generations can appreciate how wonderful the early space age was.  For I do believe we are part of the early space age and there is a lot more to come.

My friend

And how lonely this man had suddenly become, that shocked me most deeply. Especially one who had been born as a so-called sociable person and grown up and grown big and eventually grown middle-aged and old. And then, how I had come to know this person, who had truly been my friend, who had made my, by no means in itself unhappy but nevertheless most of the time difficult, existence so often so very happy. Who had enlightened me about so much that had been totally unfamiliar to me, who had shown paths to me that I had not previously known, opened doors for me which had previously been totally locked to me, who had at the decisive moment, when I might possibly have gone to seed in Nathal, in the country, led me back to myself. The fact is that during that period, before I came to know my friend, I had for years been struggling against a pathological melancholia, if not indeed depression, and had actually then regarded myself as lost, for years I had not done any work of any significance and most of the time started and ended my days with total uninterest in them. And I had very often then been close to putting an end to my life by my own hand. For years I had escaped into nothing other than a terribly soul-killing speculation on suicide, which had made everything intolerable to me, myself most intolerable of all, against that pointlessness of everything that enveloped me day after day and into which I had probably, out of general weakness but primarily out of my weakness of character, plunged myself. For a long time I had been unwilling to imagine that I could go on living, or even go on existing, I had been unable to accept any purpose in life and unable therefore any longer to control myself, and, when I woke up in the morning, I had irresistably been subject to that suicidal thought mechanism from which I had not freed myself all day. I had also, at that time, been abandoned by everybody because I had abandoned everybody, that is the truth, because I did not want them any more but was too cowardly to put an end to myself. And it was probably at the peak of this despair, I am not ashamed to utter this word because I have no intention of deceiving myself or glossing over in a society or in a world where everything is being continually glossed over and, what is more, in the most revolting manner, that Paul had emerged, that I had made his acquaintance in Blumenstockgasse at our mutual friend Irina's. At that moment he was such a totally different, new, person for me, moreover associated with a name I had, for some decades, admired more than any other, that I immediately felt that here was my saviour. On that seat in the Stadtpark I once more clearly realized all this and I was not afraid of my pompous words, not of the great words which I now forcibly admitted to myself, words which I had at no other time admitted, and now they were suddenly doing me good in some tremendous way and I did not tone them down in the least. I let these words come down upon me like refreshing rain.

Thomas Bernhard in Wittgenstein's Nephew, translated by Ewald Osers.

"Firarperest" ve "Ye dua et sev"

Son okuduğum kitaplar-Elif Şafak "Firarperest" ve "Ye dua et sev"Elizabeth Gilbert."Firarperest'i" çok sevdim.Minik hikayelerden oluşuyor.Hepsi içtenlikle, samimiyetle yazılmış.Hayattan, bizden,ordan,burdan herşeye değinmiş.Bir solukta okunası bir kitap.

Dünyada 8 milyon üzerinde satış yapmış olsada ben "Ye dua et sev" kitabından çok hoşlanmadım. Aman allahım diyemedim yani.Nedense herkesin bayıldığı kitaplara ben neden bayılmıyorum anlamıyorum ." Issız adam"a da bayılmamıştım mesela..Kesin bende bişey var.

Bu arada önceki postlarımdan birinde" Yeminli bakire "(Ferihan Atasoy) kitabından bahsetmiştim.O zaman okumamıştım.Şimdi okudum ve bayıldım.Harika bir hikaye.Gözyaşlarınızı tutamayacaksınız.

Bu "Firarperest" kitabından bir paragraf ,çok hoşuma gitti .Emek,emek,emek.... başarının sırrı budur.Herşey emek ister,aşk ta ,iş te .Herşey...

PORTAKAL SOSLU HAŞHAŞLI MUFFİN

MALZEMELER
2 Adet yumurta
1 su bardağı şeker
1,5 su bardağı un
1 çay bardağı süt
1 çay bardağı sıvıyağ
1 paket kabartma tozu
1 paket vanilya
2 yemek kaşığı haşhaş
1 portakal kabuğu rendesi (rendenin ince tarafından rendelenecek)
SOSU
2 portakalın suyu
1 yemek kaşığı mısır nışastası
4 yemek kaşığı şeker
Üzerine hindistan cevizi ve portakal rendesi
YAPILIŞI
Yumurta ve şeker mikserle 5 dakika kadar çırpılır, sıvıyağ ve süt eklenerek  1 dakika kadar daha çırpılıp elemiş olduğumuz un, kabartma tozu,vanilya, haşhaş ve portakal kabuğu rendesi  eklenerek tahta bir kaşıkla karıştırılarak kağıt kalıplara 2 şer kaşık doldurularak ısıtılmış fırında 180 derecede pişrilir .
SOSUNUN YAPILIŞI
Portakal suyu, nışasta ve şeker birlikte devamlı karıştırılarak  pişirilir, kabuk tutmaması için arada karıştırılarak ılınması beklenir, soğuyan keklerimizin üzerlerine dökülür hindistan cevizi portakal kabuğu rendesi ile süslenip servis yapılır.
Bu MUFFİNLERİMİ mandalina ve portakallı lezzetler etkinliğine ev sahipliği yapan sevgili Yıldız 'a gönderiyorum.

Güzel bir kız alıp evlenecekmiş.....

Ne farkeder beş yaşında olması ki.Evlenmek istiyor.Hem de güzel bir kızla.Saçı uzun olacak ,gözü yeşil,adı Aslı( "Kavak yelleri"in Aslısı galiba bu).Olur oğlum olur.Aslında benle evlenecekmiş(çok aşığız birbirimize bu arada) ama ben kocamın karısıymışım,olmazmış.Hem çocukları olacakmış.Biri erkek,biri kız(ben kızları çok seviyormuşum ya,kızım yokmuş ya).Bak nasıl da düşünüyor babaanneyi ,yani beni.Hem torunlarıma krep yapıcakmışım,onlarda karısıyla sinemaya gideçeklermiş ,torunumu bana bırakıp ta.Vay be, 5 yaşındakilerin hayallerine bak.Sen hele bir büyü, oku,evlenirsin bebeğim.Ama yok bu ara evliliğe takıntılıyız.Aşkla yatıyoruz,aşkla kalkıyoruz.Ne yapsın bebeğim dizilerde öyle aşk fırtınaları kopuyor ki...Bir de akşam bizi hüngür hüngür ağlatan Osmancık yok mu....

Sen takılma şimdiden bu işlere böcikom,bak legolarla ne güzel şeylar yapıyorsun....