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[Quirky Quokka]

I'd never heard of Jetta until I discovered these comics on this site. I was thinking the style was very much like Archie, and have since learned it was the same artist, so that explains it. One of the characters looks very much like Reggie Mantle from the Archie Gang. Very well-drawn. 10 out of 10 for the art. The stories were pretty good, though didn't have quite the sweet charm of Archie. I did like the hip space talk though. When I was a kid, I loved watching the Jetsons TV show and the most amazing futuristic invention to me was the video phone. But here they have one a decade before the Jetsons! I also liked the funny details in some of the pictures. For example, when Jetta and Arky go to an old movie starring Humphrey GoCart. Humphrey Bogart would have indeed been a current movie star when this comic was published. A nice twist on the usual teen comic.

Link to the book: Jetta 5

[The Australian Panther]

  loved watching the Jetsons TV show and the most amazing futuristic invention to me was the video phone. But here they have one a decade before the Jetsons!

Somewhere around the same time Dick Tracy had a wrist radio which eventually became a wrist video phone. 

[Captain Audio]

  loved watching the Jetsons TV show and the most amazing futuristic invention to me was the video phone. But here they have one a decade before the Jetsons!

Somewhere around the same time Dick Tracy had a wrist radio which eventually became a wrist video phone.

A wrist radio had been invented around that time, perhaps as far back as the thirties. In the TV series of SHIELD agent Colson had the original in his private collection of spy gear. I think his collection was destroyed when the aircraft he used as his headquarters was destroyed.

[Robb_K]

I remember a precursor to The Jetsons' prediction of the communications future.  It was a 1954 story in which Goofy bought a "Peewee TV", which strapped to one's nose, screen aimed towards the wearer's eyes, to allow the wearer to watch a TV show while walking.  50+ years later, people have small, hand-held screen devices, on which, they can watch films, TV programmes, and sports and other live events.  Amazing presaging of the future by comic cartoonist creators, in the league and tradition of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells!  Of course, there were Sci-Fi stories from back in the 1930s (short stories in books, pulps, and newspaper comic strips) which featured futuristic communications instruments.

[Quirky Quokka]

Thanks Australian Panther, Captain Audio and Robb re the inventions like the video watches, cell phones and screens. Yes, it's amazing to look back and see what they were predicting all those years ago. A few years ago, hubby and I bought all the box set DVDs of the original Star Trek from the early 1960s, as I'd never seen them before. I was amazed to discover that their communicators bore an uncanny likeness to my extremely modern Nokia flip phone. Probably not a coincidence that Nokia and others chose that design. Now we have Apple watches that probably have more power than the computers that landed Apollo 11 on the moon. Though alas, I had to take a step back from the space age. I got a Fitbit watch last Christmas and had to return it because I had an adverse reaction to the electric pulse it emits. Maybe space age watches aren't all they're cracked up to be