Buen humor, 19th C.

Buen humor was a spanish satiric magazine published during 1920's. These scans come all from the sprawling Hemeroteca Digital database of the National Library of Spain. Graphic artist and cartoonist Pedro Antonio Villahermosa y Borao (nicknamed Sileno) founded Buen Humor in 1921. It ran for 400 or 500 issues (Hermeroteca houses 410) until 1931. You can read more about it (in Spanish) here. Also here.

Other illustrators who worked on Buen Humor were: Rafael de Penagos (1889-1954), Lluis Bagaria Bou (1882-1940), Ricardo García López (1890-1984) aka K-Hito, Francisco López Rubio (1895-1965), and Salvador Bartolozzi. 

Exploring Space (20th C. -1958)

OMG I had a lot of childhood memories while writing this post :)

 

While The Complete Book of Space Travel was aimed at teen and pre-teen boys, the 1958 book Exploring Space was looking for a younger audience.

 

EXPLORING SPACE (A Little Golden Book) by Rose Wyler, Copyright 1958 by Simon and Schuster 1964 . NASA has a discussion on its web page :)  

 

The above children's book is described as a "true story about the rockets of today and a glimpse of the rockets that are to come." The rockets of "today" were those of 1958, the advent of the space program. The narrative speaks of future rockets flying (orbiting) around the world in an hour. Why is this unlikely? How much time should the flight around the world require?

Below are sample pages from the book,