Space Family Robinson

Space Family Robinson was an original science-fiction comic-book series published by Gold Key Comics.

Both are loosely based on the 1812 novel by Johann David Wyss (and similarly named movies) The Swiss Family Robinson.

They considered filing suit, but decided against it, as Gold Key was also publishing an Irwin Allen title, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

In August 2011, Dark Horse Comics began the Space Family Robinson archives hardcover reprint series.

The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide suggested the series was created by famed Disney comic-book artist-writer Carl Barks.

[citation needed] In fact, Barks did suggest a Swiss Family Robinson in space comic to his editor Chase Craig circa 1960, but nothing came of it.

In 1966, the weekly UK publication Lady Penelope ("the comic for girls who love television"; published by City Magazines) printed Space Family Robinson stories.

The Lady Penelope Summer Extra (1966) included a three-page story in which the Robinsons land on a recently abandoned planet.

Here, a man takes his family away from a planet Earth which is destroyed by aliens, only to discover that he has been rescued by a former girlfriend who wants revenge.

It played at the Pleasance Theatre in London between 4 May and 26 May 2002, featuring well-known musical star Hannah Waddingham in the lead role of Starbird, as well as Laurie Hagen, Tim Barron, Helena Biggs, Stuart Piper, and Arvid Larsen.