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Anderson Entertainment Comics
Compiled by Martin Willey
The Merchandise Guide
Anderson Entertainment, run by Gerry Anderson's son Jamie Anderson, previously published Moonbase Alpha Technical Operations Manual by Chris Thompson and Andrew Clements (2021), and the novelisation Maybe There - The Lost Stories from Space: 1999 (2022), as well as numerous T-shirts and other clothing, and even a jigsaw puzzle(2021). For other Anderson series they had published comic anthologies.
Anderson Entertainment, UK, June 2023, £39.99
336 pages (not numbered), hardcover, 304 x 196 x 25 mm
ISBN 978 19145 2234 5
Adaption by Andrew E.C. Gaska
This is a reprint of the trade paperback To Everything That Was published by Blam in 2013.
This has a new cover (an adaption of the Chantrell Destination Moonbase Alpha poster by Chandra Free, previously used on Blam's Space: 1999 Classic No.11). There is a foreword by Dayton Ward. The cover gallery at the back has full-page art. At the end is a new 8-page section, "The Series That Almost Was", describing how Blam would have continued the series with 7 further books. It doesn't cover plots (which might still be published) but gives character profiles and art, with old characters (Bergman and Maya appear), new characters and aliens.
Back-cover:
September 13th, 1999 - when an atomic accident causes the Moon to be blown out of orbit and hurled into the unknown, the survivors of the lunar base stationed there launch towards their destiny - and adventures - across the stars!
Set in the continuity of-the original series, Space: 1999 - To Everything That Was fills in the gap between the first and second seasons as well offering a glimpse beyond the gothic science fiction television series Space: 1999, offering an exciting narrative of events that occurred "between the scenes".
This collection is a celebration of the Space: 1999 comics of yesteryear, reprinting the best of the Charlton Comics series and the British Look-in issues along with remastered and unpublished works by comic book legends such as Gray Morrow (Man-Thing, Tarzan, Buck Rogers), John Byrne (X-Men, Fantastic Four), Sanjulian (Vampirella, Creepy), Joe Staton (Green Lantern, Superboy), and more.
This new edition includes material left out of the 2013 release and offers fans a first-ever look at the un-produced Space: 1999 Season 3 graphic novel series by BLAM! Ventures.
The original 2013 Blam! trade paperback and the 2023 Anderson edition.
Additional content.
Anderson Entertainment, UK, 13 October 2023, £29.99
184 pages (not numbered), hardcover, 304 x 196 mm
Adaption by Andrew E.C. Gaska
This is a reprint of the trade paperback Aftershock and Awe published by Blam in 2012. Originally scheduled for April 2023, it was postponed to August, then September, finally coming out in October.
Cover is from Aftershock #4 (October 2012).
Back cover:
In an alternate universe where JFK was never assassinated, humankind has suffered through World War III and built a base on the Moon by the year 1999.
September 13th, 1999 - an atomic accident causes the Moon to be blown out of orbit and hurled into the unknown. The survivors of the lunar base stationed there are launched towards their destiny across the stars. But what of the cataclysm and wanton destruction caused to the Earth in its wake?
This groundbreaking retro-reintroduction to the sci-fi hit series from the early 1970s begins with Awe - an adaption of Space: 1999's pilot episode, Breakaway.
Now expanded to include both new and unfilmed material, this revolutionary retelling of a sci-fi classic is illustrated with the remastered art of comics legend Gray Morrow and the great Neal Adams's own Continuity Studios.
The story continues in Aftershock as nine lives are forever changed by the carnage left in the Moon's wake. Aftershock explores the scientific, environmental and socio-political repercussions of a world left with no Moon.
This edition of Aftershock and Awe also includes a never-before-seen look at BLAM! Ventures unproduced follow-up comic series, Mission: Alpha.
The 2012 Blam edition and the 2023 Anderson edition. The original hardcover was smaller, 17.7cm x 26.8cm.
The original had an introduction by John Kenneth Muir. The new edition has an introduction by James Swallow, a sci-fi author who has worked on books and audio adventures for various media properties. Muir's name still appears in the centre of the book, in the double-page spread for Aftershock and Awe.
Comparison of the art pages.
Concept art by Daniel Dussault in the original addition, but missing from the Anderson edition. The 1-page biographies of the original artists is also omitted.
Exclusive to this addition are 14 pages, mostly text, describing the continuation comic series, Mission: Alpha, concerning a crew from Earth (plus Zantor) in the Alpha Probe trying to find the Moon, and encountering various planets and aliens being revisited. Finally there is a 2-page spread of art concepts for the Hawk and Eagle variations.
Anderson Entertainment, UK, October 2023, £34.99
320 pages, hardcover, 304 x 228 mm
ISBN 978 19145 2259 8
Writer Shaqui Le Vesconte, editors Andrew Clements and Chris Dale.
Includes all the Look-In strips, comics from the annuals, plus features on Look-In, the artists and other comic strips.
