The story is adapted from two unproduced teleplays commissioned by Irwin Allen for the third season of the tv show. It’s edited and adapted by Holly Interlandi, but it has more of a first season vibe than a typical third season episode (which may be why it went unproduced). Steve Stanley’s airbrushed cover art looks as good as a Jerome Moore Star Trek cover. The interior art, by Kostas Pantoulas not only displays good panel-to-panel continuity, but also serves the main function required for a project of this nature: the characters look like the actors who play them on tv. The original teleplay was written by prolific television writer Carey Wilbur, who not only wrote for Lost in Space, but also Rawhide, Bonanza, Wonder Woman, Time Tunnel, and the “Space Seed” episode of Star Trek.
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Waiting to get mine!
Oh, the pain, the pain.
The covers bear a striking resemblance to those published by Innovation in the '90s.
Did Inovation ever finish that storyline?
It appears so. It's collected on Amazon.
I think I posted some thoughts about #2 elsewhere on the board, but #3 brings the opening story to a close. I still find it hard to believe that this is adapted from a third season script. Another reason it might have gone unproduced: the writer perhaps overestimated the ability of the special effects of the day.
The advertisement of #4 (Alice in Wonderland-themed with Penny as Alice and Dr. Smith as the Mad Hatter) seems much more like typical third season fare. It remains to be seen if that turns out to be a good thing or a bad thing.
ME-TV just ran the infamous vegetable episode last week and will be running the final episode this Saturday so this is good timing.
Issue #4 begins an adaptation of another untelevized Carey Wilbur script. This Alice In Wonderland-themed tale is more typical of third season fare, yet seems less campy on the printed page than it would on the small screen. This is to be a three-issue story and, sadly, the new Lost in Space comic book is not scheduled to run beyond that point.