THis Day In History (1939): First Nylon Stockings Sold

In 1939, nylon stockings went on sale in the U.S. for the first time to employees at DuPont's Wilmington, Delaware nylon factory. Nationwide sales began on 15 May 1940.

Art © Bruce Timm; Black Canary © DC Comics

The modern materials revolution began in 1938 with DuPont's commercialization of their nylon product, which was the first man-made fibre to be made exclusively from mineral sources. “Nylons,” as they were soon called, eventually replaced silk stockings. link

Neptune

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Life in The Solar System (Space Busters, 1952)

Space Busters #2; Art by the great Everett Raymond Kinstler

Graveyard in the Antarctic (1952)

Weird Thrillers #4, 1952, Ziff-Davis; Art: Marvin Stein

Man In Black - The Thief, Bob Powell (1958)

Man in Black, #4 has Bob Powell channeling Will Eisner in this tale from Harvey Comics

Space-Age Glass! (1952)

From Weird Thrillers #3

The Cycle of Time! by Murphy Anderson (1951)

From Weird Thillers #2, 1951

The Canals of Mars (1951)

From Weird Thrillers #1, 1951

Voyage To The Moon (1952)

Space Busters #1, 1952

Every Space Buster a One-Man Army (1952)

Space Busters #2, Ziff-Davis

Saturn

From Space Facts

Life On Other Worlds - Saturn (Murphy Anderson, 1953)

Man O'Mars #1, Fiction House, 1953

Life On Other Worlds - Uranus (Murphy Anderson, 1953)

Man O'Mars #1, Fiction House, 1953

The Petrified Forest (Science Comics, 1946)

Art by Warren Kremer from Science Comics #3

One Million Years B.C.

From P R E H I S T O S A U R I O !

Uranus

Kruppeny Island by Vaughn Bode

Lady Danger - The Shakespeare Clue! (1948)

From Sensation Comics #84, 1948, DC Comics

By Robert Kanigher & Bob Oksner

Saturn

From Space Facts

Mewhu's Jet

From Ward B Case Files

Martian Meteorites Found To Contain Methane

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An international team of researchers has discovered traces of methane in Martian meteorites.

The researchers examined samples from six meteorites of volcanic rock that originated on Mars. The meteorites contain gases in the same proportion and with the same isotopic composition as the Martian atmosphere. All six samples also contained methane, which was measured by crushing the rocks and running the emerging gas through a mass spectrometer. The team also examined two non-Martian meteorites, which contained lesser amounts of methane.

The discovery hints at the possibility that methane could be used as a food source by rudimentary forms of life beneath the Martian surface. On Earth, microbes do this in a range of environments.

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