From 28th April 1956 a comic strip version of Journey Into Space appeared in the pages of Express Weekly and ran until 1957. It was written by Charles Chilton and drawn by Tacconi and later Bruce Cornwall and Terence Patrick.

The story that ran in the weekly pages was entitled Planet of Fear and began with Discovery blasting off from Moonbase IV on a routine mission to Mars in 1976. The drawings of Jet, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy were based on the actors who portrayed them in The World In Peril.

See - it even looks like them!

Express Weekly was published by Beaverbrook Press as a rival to the popular Eagle magazine, which featured the Dan Dare and Riders of the Range comic strips, amongst others. Not surprisingly Express Weekly had their own cowboy strip as well as science fiction space adventure with Jet Morgan!

There was also an Express Weekly annual, which appeared at the end of 1956. Featuring a glossy a red cover - much like the highly collectable Eagle annuals - this one off annual featured an eight page Journey Into Space comic strip. Entitled Jet Morgan and the Space Castaway, it was written by Charles Chilton and drawn by Bruce Cornwall.

And here we leave our look at the comic strip exploits of Jet Morgan. If anyone has any contact details for the artists mentioned above, please contact the site. The aim is to obtain copyright permission to "re-publish" some of the stories on this site.

The contact address is control@journeyintospace.co.uk