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Re: If Garth is Ahab...
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[QB]Isn't the guy in the spacesuit Ultra Boy? Didn't he wear the spacesuit because he could not be invulnerable and use his other powers?
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I just checked my tattered copy of 100-PAGE SUPER SPECTACULAR DC-21 (Oct. 1973), which reprints "The Super Moby Dick of Space" -- and yes, it's Ultra Boy.

From the caption on Page 53:

"At this moment, Ultra-Boy, who can switch his ultra-energy into any single super-power, is using it for super-speed ..."

The two-page scene then proceeds as I described it, above.

Maybe yellow spacesuit pants were the latest fashion in 2965.

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"Captain Ahab of Space" by Virgil Finlay from 1957. Possibly an inspiration for the Super Moby-Dick of Space?

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Originally Posted by Eryk Davis Ester
...the Super-Moby Dick of Space wasn't really a space-whale at all, but a Dxaundii wingfish, grown to gigantic size.

Just how is Dxaundii pronounced, exactly? I've always assumed it's "Duck Sunday."

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My assumption was similar but slightly different - "Dooks Orndee".

There is a recent computer game designed as a sequel of sorts to Moby Dick called Nantucket. You play as Ishmael who, after a few years, cannot free his own mind of his experiences and sets out to be whaler himself. It is an interesting game that I quite enjoy.
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Was that Captain Ahab of Space a story or just artwork?

(The April 1957 issue of Galaxy had an actual whale on the cover, but that was under the ocean.)

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As far as I can figure out, there's just the artwork.
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