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Click for full imageGood Show Sir Comments: And he’s in a hurry to get to where exactly?
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Good Show Sir Comments: And he’s in a hurry to get to where exactly?
Published 1957
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March 7th, 2017 at 11:55 am
FIRST!
March 7th, 2017 at 11:57 am
@GSS: in answer to your question; why, Venus, of course!
March 7th, 2017 at 12:01 pm
A five-wheeled bicycle like that doesn’t work on Earth.
March 7th, 2017 at 1:26 pm
Lance Armstrong went to greater and greater lengths to avoid awkward questions about doping.
March 7th, 2017 at 1:45 pm
If only it was a penny-farthing. No-one tell him he actually has landed in Yemen..
March 7th, 2017 at 2:10 pm
Who’s on first on Mars?
March 7th, 2017 at 2:11 pm
By the time the second guy gets to Mars, they may have developed a bike with a motor.
March 7th, 2017 at 2:12 pm
Do you think he climbed up to the top of his wrecked space cruiser to plant that flag or do you think it’s been there since lift off?
March 7th, 2017 at 2:35 pm
If he gets attacked by the infamous pizza-beasts of Mars, he’ll be eating pepperoni with extra cheese in no time.
March 7th, 2017 at 2:38 pm
@bc #8. It’s like one of those kids’ bikes in the 70’s with a banana seat and pennant flag…Baseball cards in the spokes, etc.
March 7th, 2017 at 2:46 pm
Thank God the tank of nitrous oxide survived the crash! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
March 7th, 2017 at 2:57 pm
The title of course refers to the tarantula, who beat this guy to it.
March 7th, 2017 at 3:03 pm
Great movie, even w/o the bicycle. But they did kill Batman.
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March 7th, 2017 at 3:10 pm
Meccano — the toy for children of all ages!
March 7th, 2017 at 3:32 pm
@JuanPaul (10)—poor guy, that Erector Set® bike doesn’t even come with spoked wheels for those vroom-vroom baseball cards.
March 7th, 2017 at 3:32 pm
By the way, this is the “complete and unabridged” Rex Gordon, not that second rate Rx Grdn.
March 7th, 2017 at 4:16 pm
I’m amazed he’s not freezing to death because he’s not wearing a full spacesuit. Such is the logic of antique SF book covers.
March 7th, 2017 at 4:57 pm
@6 BC: Who’s first on Mars. What’s first on Jupiter. I don’t know’s first on Pluto because we’re not sure if it’s a planet or not.
@8 BC: why do you think it crashed? Too much drag!
March 7th, 2017 at 5:08 pm
Inside of every fat font, there’s a skinny font trying to get out.
March 7th, 2017 at 5:45 pm
Wasn’t he in Sonic Youth?
March 7th, 2017 at 6:44 pm
I want to know who the poor soul draped across the back of his contraption is. Was there a squabble over the last three course meal pill?
March 7th, 2017 at 7:13 pm
“Run for the hills folks, or you’ll be up to your armpits in Martians!”
March 7th, 2017 at 7:31 pm
First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
March 7th, 2017 at 8:57 pm
@THX 1138—well, if he’s the “Robinson Crusoe of the Red Planet,” that must be Friday there in the back.
And for GSS Catholics now deeply ensconced in Lent, I guess he’d be the “First Friday” on Mars.
March 7th, 2017 at 9:32 pm
First on Mars, then in more built-up areas, people have been switching to the new halitosis-powered mopeds, the Pogue from Tesla.
March 7th, 2017 at 10:46 pm
Feyd-rautha Harkonnen claims this dune-world.
March 7th, 2017 at 11:22 pm
@Ray P.: How does he cycle with a flying-wing jockstrap?
March 7th, 2017 at 11:54 pm
A master of prana-bindu yoga can perform unearthly physical feats.
March 8th, 2017 at 12:01 am
@Ray P.: Kull wahad!
March 8th, 2017 at 1:22 am
26-29: brilliant.
@Anna T: Even more puzzlingly, he appears to have a full spacesuit in the cargo area of his pizza cutter bike.
Unless… that’s a dead body, salvaged from the crashed spaceship. Mr. First On Mars has been flagging and looting later ships. It would explain why his transportation is so odd; he’s built it out of spare parts from wrecks.
March 8th, 2017 at 3:03 am
Okay, since no one else is addressing the elephant in the room: What the f–k are those pink hairy things all over the ground???
March 8th, 2017 at 11:36 am
@JuanPaul
I thought the artist was going for really small craters but the one above the authors name is undeniably a spider. Now I have the irresistible urge to check the inside cover for the inscription “Property of David Jones aged 10½”.
March 8th, 2017 at 3:44 pm
@JP: perhaps those are eccrine sweat glands and, owing to a cosmic mix-up, our hero has landed on the surface of Mars the god.
March 8th, 2017 at 11:59 pm
@dswbt I knew the answer would be disgusting
March 14th, 2017 at 8:44 pm
@GSS ex-noob – I, too, wondered why this guy doesn’t put on what looks like a real space suit if he’s got one…trying to look tough? My second thought was to wonder why his very thin metal wheels aren’t cutting deep furrows in the ground…
March 16th, 2017 at 4:32 am
@HappyBookworm: Could be earlier speculation is correct and the bike doesn’t actually move. It’s just parked there and he’s sitting on it, maybe posing for a tough-guy photo, maybe saying “vroom vroom!”
March 16th, 2017 at 12:52 pm
The sequels SECOND ON MARS and THIRD ON MARS flopped.
March 16th, 2017 at 12:53 pm
But where did the other crewmembers go…?
Well… this was also the “Donner Party” of the Red Planet.