(Marvel Mystery Comics v1 013, 1940)
The history of spaceflight is of course very different in a super-hero universe. For example, Empress Nara of Ligra, featured in a previous post about Professor Zog being knighted, was actually an Earth-woman who arrived on Ligra as an infant because her father invented an interstellar spacecraft sometime around 1920 or so. This it is practically unremarkable that Professor Zog was invited on a trip to the Moon in 1940 by Dr Simon Crane and his daughter Betty. Also Electro came along.
And having reached the Moon almost 30 years earlier than we in this dimension did, Zog and the Cranes encountered the other side of the super-hero universe coin (if the first side read EASY SPACE TRAVEL, that is): there's always going to be one or more evil space-creeps when you get where you're going.
In this case, the space-creep is Gnorr, self-styled Emperor of the Moon! Last of his kind, thousands of years old and cute as hell! Just a big roly poly head with four wee little tentacles and a wall-eye: I love him. Too bad for him and me that he set his sights on the conquest of Earth, because that's always the cue for Professor Zog to take a hand - Gnorr ends up blown to high heaven and the Marvel Universe was poorer for it.
Gnorr also has some pretty great moon-robots in his employ, for the record.
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