Ripley's Believe It or Not has been presenting the incredible and the unusual in illustrated form since Robert Ripley's first "Champs and Chumps" comic published on Dec. 19, 1918. Currently, B.I.O.N. is illustrated by John Graziano, who has been working as an artist and illustrator since 1983, when he received a certificate in illustration from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. He has designed trading card sets and a portrait series based on the 1960s cult TV show "Dark Shadows." John has also created comic strips for "Scream Queens" magazine, designed t-shirts graphics and created storyboards and concept drawings for Hollywood films. Researcher Lucas Stram has worked since 2004 as the voice behind the cartoon, reviewing potential stories, filtering through the hundreds of weekly submissions and putting together the stories for John to bring to life. New submissions are always welcome. Just click here.
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win said, 11 months ago
a penney for Mars’ thoughts?
briatollah said, 11 months ago
The penny is to jerry-rig a blown fuse.
gmartin997
said, 11 months ago
Obviously the penny was meant as a practical joke to fool other space travelers into thinking it had been there 100 years longer than it had. Those people at NASA are such clowns.
Larhof52 said, 11 months ago
Googled William Hiesland. Nothing.
tom_wright said, 11 months ago
If you Google it with the correct spelling you get lots of information. “HISELAND”, not “HIESLAND”.
joe piglet said, 11 months ago
Coin collectors will now launch the first manned space craft to Mars. That is NASA goal. Send a stamp to Jupiter and the stamp collectors of the world (which I am one) will land and colonize the planet, power to the Nerds.
Bears
said, 11 months ago
We coin collectors would never go to Mars for a plain 1909 penny. A 1909 S VDB penny maybe, but not a P.
Shirl Summ
said, 11 months ago
Lost, I’ve never been lost. A might confused for a month or two….. Brian Kieth “The Mountain Men.”
Stephen Gilberg
said, 11 months ago
I didn’t think anyone lived to 112 in the 18th century!
cward said, 11 months ago
is it a lincoln penny or an indian head. the picture shows a lincoln ,but it doesn’t say which one.
WARREN JONES said, 11 months ago
that guy was 112 yrs old do the math i dont think so
briatollah said, 11 months ago
@Shirl Summ
I think Daniel Boone said it first.
briatollah said, 11 months ago
@cward
The first Lincoln pennies came out in 1909 on the centennial of his birth.
Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 11 months ago
Oh thank heavens! I panicked a bit when I thought NASA had kidnapped Penny and sent her to Mars!
You’re right here for me, aren’t you, Penny?
Penny’s patting my head.
phritzg
said, 11 months ago
Could disorientation mean getting lost in China or Japan?