The story of “Moon Maid” and the Lunarians first appeared in the “Dick Tracy” comic in the early 1960s, before the Apollo missions, when little was known of the Moon. We’ve learned a great deal since then about the formation of stars, planets, and moons, and the formation of biochemicals and the evolution of life forms. Current writers of the comic could add a backstory for where the Lunarians came from (not Earth; the fossil record doesn’t show evidence (antennae, etc.) of evolutionary forerunners of their race). Their species may not have originated on Earth, but as visitors they may have influenced human evolution and history (and myth).
Finally, after all these years, I get to see the mysterious Mrs. Warbucks. She never to my knowledge appeared in the “Little Orphan Annie” comic again, despite numerous appearances by “Daddy” Warbucks.
Somehow I miss Harvey Kurtzman’s and Will Elder’s “Little Annie Fanny,” with Sugardaddy Bigbucks, the Wasp, and Shazam.
My understanding is that Oliver Warbucks didn’t just adopt Annie because his wife did not approve of her. Yet in all the years I’d read the comic I’d never seen Mrs. Warbucks nor even heard of her. I got my information from an outside source.
Harold Gray, creator of the comic, is Annie’s biological father?!?!?!Interesting parallel with Marvel’s Spider-Man — Peter Parker’s parents were intelligence agents.
I see the guest writer is following the old Chester Gould convention of giving a strange-sounding last name that turns out to be a reverse description of the bearer of the name. In this case, “Nuremoh” is “homerun” backwards.
The story of “Moon Maid” and the Lunarians first appeared in the “Dick Tracy” comic in the early 1960s, before the Apollo missions, when little was known of the Moon. We’ve learned a great deal since then about the formation of stars, planets, and moons, and the formation of biochemicals and the evolution of life forms. Current writers of the comic could add a backstory for where the Lunarians came from (not Earth; the fossil record doesn’t show evidence (antennae, etc.) of evolutionary forerunners of their race). Their species may not have originated on Earth, but as visitors they may have influenced human evolution and history (and myth).