Golden age comics habitually provided educational backup features for its readers (as comic readers at this time were generally children.) In Mystery in Space this took the form of various features such as Wonders of Space or Our Strange Universe. Once of the most common was the feature Giants of the Telescope which detailed the accomplishments of famous astronomers. However, unlike other biographical features in golden age comics (such as the Wonder Women of History in golden age Wonder Woman issues) which portrayed events of the persons life, Giants of the Telescope routinely only included a picture of the person (if a picture existed) and then listed their astronomical accomplishments. The featured astronomers were as follows:
10 – Simon Newcomb
11 – William Henry Pickering
16 – Christian Huygens
17 – Edward E. Barnard
18 – Jean Dominique Cassini
20 – William Lassell
21 – Edwin Powell Hubble
22 – Pierre Simon Laplace
23 – Giovanni Schiaparelli
25 – William Huggins
27 – William Cranch Bond
28 – Richard Anthony Proctor
29 – William Herschel
30 – Joseph Norman Lockyer
32 – Arthur S. Eddington
33 – Angelo Secchi
37 – James Jean
41 – Henry Norris Russell
42 – Robert G. Aitken
43 – Charles A. Young
45 – Jeremiah Horrocks
47 – S.B. Nicholson
48 – Pietro Tacchini
49 – Frederick Wilhelm Bessel
50 – Giovani Donati
52 – Leonard Euler
53 – Sir David Gill
54 – Giuseppe Piazzi
55 – Heinrich Olbers
56 – E. Hertzsprung
57 – Pierre Janssen
60 – Warren de la Rue
61 – James Edward Keeler
64 – Samuel A. Mitchell
66 – Walter Baade
67 – John Flamsteed
68 – Sir Harold Spencer Jones
69 – Joseph Louis LaGrange
71 – Nicholas-Louis de Lacaille
72 – Richard C. Carrington
73 – Samuel P. Langley
74 – Alexis Clairault
88 – Karl Schwarzchild
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