Sky Masters

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Sky Masters of the Space Force is an American comic strip created by Jack Kirby, featuring the adventures of an American astronaut.

The strips, syndicated by the George Matthew Adams Service, were initially written by brothers Dick & Dave Wood, who had worked with Kirby on the DC Comics comic book Challengers of the Unknown. Later strips were written by Kirby. The original inker was the unrelated Wally Wood, who had also worked with Kirby on Challengers of the Unknown. Later strips were inked by Dick Ayers and the final months of dailies were both penciled and inked by Kirby.

The deal with the syndicate was brokered by DC editor Jack Schiff. Schiff later claimed he was due royalties from Kirby's share of the strip's profits, and successfully sued Kirby at trial. ^{[1] [2]}

The daily strip began 8 September 1958 and ended 25 February 1961. The Sunday strip, which told independent stories, began 8 February 1959 and ended 14 February 1960.

[edit] Episode guide

Daily stories

• "First Man in Space"
• "Sabotage"
• "Mayday Shannon"
• "The Lost Capsule"
• "Alfie"
• "Refugee"
• "Wedding in Space"
• "Message from Space"
• "Weather Watchers"
• "The Young Astronaut"

Sunday stories

• "The Atom Horse"
• "Project Darkside"
• "Mister Lunivac"
• "Jumbo Jones"
• "The Yoga Spaceman"

[edit] Reprints

All the Sky Masters strips are reprinted in The Complete Sky Masters of the Space Force, Pure Imagination, 2000, ISBN #1-56685-009-6. Note that one daily does not appear in sequence, but does appear on the back cover of the book. The Sundays are in black and white.

The first eight Sundays were reprinted in color in an earlier Sky Masters book from Pure Imagination. The remaining Sundays were reprinted in color by Comics Revue magazine.

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