Class' one attempt at a crime comics — Tales of the Underworld, featuring Charlton and Fawcett crime stories — only lasted 10 issues. Science fiction Although many of the reprints scattered across the successful anthologies were science-fiction stories, titles themed solely on science fiction were comparative failures. Class tried first with one issue of Race for the Moon (1959), anthologising Harvey science fiction reprints, followed by Outer Space (1961), featuring mainly Charlton reprints, which ran only 10 issues, and Race Into Space the same year, which again only lasted one issue. The same year Class published probably the only science fiction title that was a deliberate one-off — Space Adventures Presents Space Trip To The Moon (1961), which was mainly a reprint of Fawcett's 1950 one-shot Destination Moon, itself an adaptation of the 1950 film of the same name with short story fillers. It is possible that this was part of Class's license for the Charlton inventory, as that company had reprinted the tale in Space Adventures #20 (March 1956). Later in the 1960s, the science fiction title Out of This World ran for two separate series, the first run of 23 issues — advertised as a "new Mystery Space series" — mainly reprinting Charlton stories (including the "Tales of the Mysterious Traveler" by Steve Ditko), and a 10-issue run in the 1970s. Ally Sloper The list of Alan Class Comics titles in themselves did not directly reflect that Class himself was interested in comics above and beyond his publishing them. However, in late 1976/early 1977, Alan Class published four issues of Ally Sloper, a monthly magazine in a totally different style from other Alan Class publications. Edited by comics historian Denis Gifford and named after one of the earliest comic characters, Ally Sloper demonstrated great affection for old British comics, comic strips, and artists. With the cover tagline, "First British comic hero 1867, First British comic magazine 1976," Ally Sloper contained an eclectic mix of strips and articles. Some were in the style of British comic strips from the early 20th century, while others were created by classic artists such as Frank Hampson's 'Dawn O'Dare' and Frank Bellamy, who provided Swade, a three-page black-and-white wordless western story, for issue #1 (his last work as he died before completing the second strip). Also featured were newer British artists such as Kevin O'Neill (issue #2) and Hunt Emerson (issue #4). Although