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== Additional Info == | == Additional Info == | ||
=== Trivia === | === Trivia === | ||
*The title of issue #150 is most likely a reference to | *The title of issue #150 is most likely a reference to {{w|The Death of Superman}} storyline, which ended with Superman being alive. | ||
*"The Dark 'Naut Returns" is a reference to Batman, and, more specifically, Miller's previous work "The Dark Knight Returns". | *"The Dark 'Naut Returns" is a reference to Batman, and, more specifically, Miller's previous work "The Dark Knight Returns". | ||
*''Space Boy'' is one of the choices given to [[Free Waterfall III]] to identify as a series that has not run for one thousand issues. While the answer wasn't revealed, there is a 66% chance that this was one of the long running comics. But given that one of the series ended in 1999 this series most likely reached issue #1000 by the year 3002. | *''Space Boy'' is one of the choices given to [[Free Waterfall III]] to identify as a series that has not run for one thousand issues. While the answer wasn't revealed, there is a 66% chance that this was one of the long running comics. But given that one of the series ended in 1999 this series most likely reached issue #1000 by the year 3002. |
Revision as of 12:56, 29 April 2011
Supported canon
Space Boy in Outer Space | |
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Type | Comic Book Series |
First appearance | "Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!" (US#001) |
Space Boy in Outer Space is a series of comics focused on a sci-fi action hero that launched in or before 1979 and spanning at least 150 issues. Space Boy was Fry's favourite comic as a kid and he continued to read it while working at Panucci's Pizza. In the 31st century Frank Miller's Head wrote a re-imagining of the series entitled "The Dark 'Naut Returns Overdue Library Books", shortly afterwords production on a film staring Calculon and Fry as Space Boy was started but canceled after the script was leaked.
Releases included "The Amazing Space Boy" Annual #5, December 1988 and Space Boy #150, "The Death of Space Boy".
Additional Info
Trivia
- The title of issue #150 is most likely a reference to The Death of Superman storyline, which ended with Superman being alive.
- "The Dark 'Naut Returns" is a reference to Batman, and, more specifically, Miller's previous work "The Dark Knight Returns".
- Space Boy is one of the choices given to Free Waterfall III to identify as a series that has not run for one thousand issues. While the answer wasn't revealed, there is a 66% chance that this was one of the long running comics. But given that one of the series ended in 1999 this series most likely reached issue #1000 by the year 3002.