ALIENS AND SO FORTH ROUND-UP 002

It's back-to-back round-ups this week!

Moon People: 

Spacehawk seems to make friends easily, and wherever there is an evil alien space menace he must battle there is seemingly a friendly alien species nearby to help out. In this case, the space menace is on the Moon, and the friendly folk are the Moon People or Moon Men, barrel-chested fellows with the faces of cartoon mice. I like them, even if their eyes do freak me out. (Target Comics v1 008, 1940)

Neptunians:

This unfortunate Neptunian space pilot has the misfortune to be the first target of Jark and Zorg and so the only state we see his species in is hapless fear. I kept wondering what I found so appealing about this design but then I realized that it reminded me of Earthworm Jim and all was well.(Target Comics v1 007, 1940)

Saturnians:

Given the Wolvertonian trend toward species with a lot of physical variation in their populations my instinct is to try to see how the melty-faced Saturnians in the first panel above and the worried green fellow on the right hand side of the second panel (pictured with two hapless and fearful Neptunians) are part of the same species. It's a real stretch, I must admit. (Target Comics v1 006 & 007, 1940)

Plutonians: 

Love these little toad-faced Plutonian space cops. Really wish that they were running around the whole story, making that face the whole time, but they stupidly chase a fleeing suspect into a pirate city and get absolutely annihilated. Captain Dakk there is the only one who makes it and even he would be toast is his friend Spacehawk hadn't placed his brain in an alien dinosaur. (Target Comics v1 010, 1940)