My Favorite Martian, The Complete Series: Vol. 1 Kong Crew and Nellie the Nurse

and Nellie the Nurse

such as the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year and the Boy's Club of American Junior Books Award

1953: The world has entered the age of the Atom

He describes his commitment to create conceptual illustrations that are embedded with visual riddles

My Favorite Martian, The Complete Series: Vol. 1 Kong Crew and Nellie the NurseReview by Karl Verhoven: A first thought might be to question the vailidity of reprinting five issues of a comic connected to a long forgotten TV show from the 1960s, particularly in a lavish hardcover. The premise of the series, as detailed in the first issue reprinted, is that inquisitive journalist Tim O'Hara is late to cover the inaugural flight of the experimental X 15. He receives the brush off when he arrives, the flight having been completed,