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Moon Maid (comics)
Moon Maid is a fictional alien character from the Dick Tracy comic strip, created in 1964 by Chester Gould.
Gould, hoping to keep the strip evolving with the times, slowly began changing the strip from a crime drama into one whose primary focus was science fiction. Tracy had always been equipped with the latest, most up-to-date police equipment, including forensic science, but with the introduction into the strip of eccentric industrialist Diet Smith as Tracy's friend in the 1940s, Tracy began to use devices such as the two-way wrist radio, and later the two-way wrist TV.
The logical extension of this in Gould's mind was the introduction of space travel. Smith invented the magnetic-powered Space Coupe. During 1963, Smith and another explorer landed on the moon three times to collect rock and soil samples. During the last visit they both leave the Space Coupe unattended. While returning to Earth they found a stow away on board, this was Moon Maid. Moon Maid had her debut to the world on January 1, 1964. The Moon race looked like Caucasian humans except for having abnormally large eyes and giraffe-like horns on their foreheads. Moon Maid's first months on earth were chaotic, she could not speak earth language and her moon powers disrupted radar and television broadcasts as well as fried camera film. Her exploits continued with Junior falling in love with her and in a climatic moment this came to a head when it was revealed that Smith intended to take Moon Maid home. On April 7th, 1964 junior professes his love for Moon Maid and she decides to stay on earth with Junior.
When the impending 1969 NASA Apollo 11 Moon landing threatened to make the preceding Moon stories look silly, Gould chose to return to the material that made the Dick Tracy strip famous: Earthbound crime. The strip made one oblique reference to the Apollo 11 landing shortly after its completion, with Diet Smith commenting about some "equipment left behind" on the Moon (in a caption above a panel showing the abandoned Lunar Module).
After Apollo 11, Moon Maid and Honeymoon remained on Earth as wife and daughter of Tracy's adopted son Dick Tracy, Junior. All references to their selenic origin were phased out, with Moon Maid identified solely as "Junior's wife". Both characters continued to appear sporadically, in greatly reduced roles, until Moon Maid's eventual demise.
When Joe Staton and Mike Curtis took over the comic strip in 2011, they inaugurated a period in which many characters of the 1940s were reintroduced, including the Lunarian theme and the seeming reappearance of Moon Maid.
Moon Maid was the daughter of the Moon's supreme ruler, a male humanoid who was always identified as "the Governor of the Moon". It is not clear whether he was democratically elected, or some form of hereditary ruler. She served as a liaison between her race and the humans. She and her family became one of the strip's primary focuses for several years.
Moon Maid eventually married Junior, the now-adult adopted son of Dick Tracy. Her father the Governor resented this marriage. Eventually, Moon Maid became pregnant by Junior. Her father was anxious that the child be born on the Moon, so as to be legally a Moon denizen. The pregnant Moon Maid, Junior, and the Governor and his wife were all aboard a Space Coupe when Moon Maid gave birth at precisely the midpoint in space between Earth and the Moon.
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Moon Maid (comics)
Moon Maid is a fictional alien character from the Dick Tracy comic strip, created in 1964 by Chester Gould.
Gould, hoping to keep the strip evolving with the times, slowly began changing the strip from a crime drama into one whose primary focus was science fiction. Tracy had always been equipped with the latest, most up-to-date police equipment, including forensic science, but with the introduction into the strip of eccentric industrialist Diet Smith as Tracy's friend in the 1940s, Tracy began to use devices such as the two-way wrist radio, and later the two-way wrist TV.
The logical extension of this in Gould's mind was the introduction of space travel. Smith invented the magnetic-powered Space Coupe. During 1963, Smith and another explorer landed on the moon three times to collect rock and soil samples. During the last visit they both leave the Space Coupe unattended. While returning to Earth they found a stow away on board, this was Moon Maid. Moon Maid had her debut to the world on January 1, 1964. The Moon race looked like Caucasian humans except for having abnormally large eyes and giraffe-like horns on their foreheads. Moon Maid's first months on earth were chaotic, she could not speak earth language and her moon powers disrupted radar and television broadcasts as well as fried camera film. Her exploits continued with Junior falling in love with her and in a climatic moment this came to a head when it was revealed that Smith intended to take Moon Maid home. On April 7th, 1964 junior professes his love for Moon Maid and she decides to stay on earth with Junior.
When the impending 1969 NASA Apollo 11 Moon landing threatened to make the preceding Moon stories look silly, Gould chose to return to the material that made the Dick Tracy strip famous: Earthbound crime. The strip made one oblique reference to the Apollo 11 landing shortly after its completion, with Diet Smith commenting about some "equipment left behind" on the Moon (in a caption above a panel showing the abandoned Lunar Module).
After Apollo 11, Moon Maid and Honeymoon remained on Earth as wife and daughter of Tracy's adopted son Dick Tracy, Junior. All references to their selenic origin were phased out, with Moon Maid identified solely as "Junior's wife". Both characters continued to appear sporadically, in greatly reduced roles, until Moon Maid's eventual demise.
When Joe Staton and Mike Curtis took over the comic strip in 2011, they inaugurated a period in which many characters of the 1940s were reintroduced, including the Lunarian theme and the seeming reappearance of Moon Maid.
Moon Maid was the daughter of the Moon's supreme ruler, a male humanoid who was always identified as "the Governor of the Moon". It is not clear whether he was democratically elected, or some form of hereditary ruler. She served as a liaison between her race and the humans. She and her family became one of the strip's primary focuses for several years.
Moon Maid eventually married Junior, the now-adult adopted son of Dick Tracy. Her father the Governor resented this marriage. Eventually, Moon Maid became pregnant by Junior. Her father was anxious that the child be born on the Moon, so as to be legally a Moon denizen. The pregnant Moon Maid, Junior, and the Governor and his wife were all aboard a Space Coupe when Moon Maid gave birth at precisely the midpoint in space between Earth and the Moon.