Back in September 2015 (time flies) we published the article “The cover for ‘War In The Cosmos’, showing a cover of said story which never got used. It was for a French reprint somewhere in the late 80s (1987-1989). The project was however abandoned… until now.
![The never published before cover artwork of the unreleased re-edition of "Guerre Dans Le Cosmos".](https://www.bobdemoor.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Guerre-dans-le-cosmos-781x1024.jpg)
BD Must will release this album in colour in 2021. Below is already a colored page (without the text in the text balloons) and the cover in black and white as it will be used in this reprint.
![‘War In The Cosmos’ gets published in colour with a Bob De Moor cover](https://www.bobdemoor.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Cosmos-026_COL300-747x1024.jpg)
![](https://www.bobdemoor.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Scan-cover-guerre-cosmos-ndg-773x1024.jpg)
“Oorlog In Het Heelal” was originally created by Bob De Moor for the weekly magazine Ons Volk in 1949. It got 2 later publications, but only in magazines and never as a standalone album. Both the dutch written Ciso and the french written Comics 130 magazines would publish the story some 20 years later: Ciso in issue 5/6 (1971) and Comics 130 in issue 9 (1974).
The first publication in Ciso issue 5/6 (1971) included 10 pages on Science Fiction in Flemish and Dutch comics by Danny De Laet, the story “Pilot Storm” by J.J. Nieuwstraten preceded by a short introduction (33 pages), an introduction on Bob De Moor (3 pages), an 1974 artwork by Bob De Moor for the album and “Oorlog In Het Heelal” (32 pages). A last page includes a rather good oversight on De Moor’s bibliography until then. The back of the magazine features a cartoon by Bob De Moor which has basically no link with anything featured in the magazine itself. An extra let’s say.
![](https://www.bobdemoor.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/oorlog-in-het-heelal.jpg)
The second publication was in French in Comics 130 magazine in 1974 included the 32 page counting “Guerre Dans Le Cosmos”, alas with a cover which was not by De Moor, a special on Bob De Moor (4 pages), “L’ambassadeur” by Semjoa (8 pages), the price Saint-Michel 1974 (2 pages) and a mini-special on Mike Ploog.
![The cover of Comics 130 which was NOT by Bob De Moor.](https://www.bobdemoor.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/comics130-723x1024.jpeg)