Space Boy in Outer Space

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Space Boy in Outer Space
Type	Comic Book Series
First appearance	"Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!" (US#001)

Space Boy in Outer Space is a series of comics focused on a sci-fi action hero that launched in or before 1979 and spanning at least 150 issues. Space Boy was Fry's favourite comic as a kid and he continued to read it while working at Panucci's Pizza. In the 31st century Frank Miller's Head wrote a reimaining of the series entitled "The Dark 'Naut Returns Overdue Library Books", shortly afterwards production on a film staring Calculon and Fry as Space Boy was started but cancelled after the script was leaked.

Releases included "The Amazing Space Boy" Annual #5, December 1988 and Space Boy #150, "The Death of Space Boy".

Additional Info

Trivia

• The title of issue #150 is most likely a reference to The Death of Superman storyline, which ended with Superman being alive.
• "The Dark 'Naut Returns" is a reference to Batman aka The Dark Knight.
• Space Boy is one of the choices given to Free Waterfall III to identify as a series that has not run for one thousand issues. While the answer wasn't revealled, there is a 66% chance that this was one of the long running comics. But given that one of the series ended in 1999 this series most likely reached issue #1000 by the year 3002.

The comic in the comics

Appearances

• "Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!" (US#001)
  
• "Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?" (US#005)
  
  - mentioned
• "Fry Me to the Moon" (US#015)
  
• "Fry and the Double-Bag Must-Have Item" (US#030)
  
• "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" (4ACV06)