Our friends at the highly addictive retro web site Cinebeats have a fascinating article about a 1960s Gold Key comic book series called Space Family Robinson. The premise of the story very obviously served as the inspiration of Irwin Allen's Lost in Space TV series, which debuted in 1965. However, the quirky master sci-fi producer claimed rather unconvincingly that he had never even heard of the comic book prior to putting his show into production. Lawsuits followed and the entire bizarre story is related on the Cinebeats site. Click here to read.