# Space Pirates ! Who, what, where, when & why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-pirates-who-what-where-when-why/776593 "2017-01-08T00:20:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-pirates-who-what-where-when-why/776593/21 "2017-01-08T19:40:17Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Even the even ones were odd back then. Like Smith’s “science”? ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-pirates-who-what-where-when-why/776593/22 "2017-01-08T23:40:27Z")
Would Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Black Pirates of Barsoom quailify? The Gods of Mars began as a serial in All Story magazine in January of 1913 ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-pirates-who-what-where-when-why/776593/23 "2017-01-09T00:04:09Z")
Written by someone from Haaarvard, I’m thinking. D&R ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-pirates-who-what-where-when-why/776593/24 "2017-01-09T00:05:11Z")
Did you hear maracas? If not, then it wasn’t space banditos. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-pirates-who-what-where-when-why/776593/25 "2017-01-09T00:45:43Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > Would Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Black Pirates of Barsoom quailify? The Gods of Mars began as a serial in All Story magazine in January of 1913 Well, I don’t believe they plundered any spacecraft, so no.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-pirates-who-what-where-when-why/776593/26 "2017-01-09T01:05:39Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Then he was a threat to every other ship in space, no? 😛 Not the _Fenachrome_ (ok they don’t show up until the next book but they had to be around while the events of _Skylark_ are taking place). ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-pirates-who-what-where-when-why/776593/27 "2017-01-09T05:32:15Z")
From the Buck Rogers daily comic strip: March 23, 1932 > [@](#): > > Leaving me locked in my cabin, a prisoner aboard the little spinner ship Kayla and Gadarxtl boarded the Space Pirate, feeling certain they could buy his support for their revolution against Doctor Huer who was Emperor of the Nine Moons of Saturn– > > “Ah! An honor indeed! Permit me to introduce myself-- I am Killer Kane and this is Ardala-- My assistant.” That may be the first use of “Space” and “Pirate” together. If you’re pointing fingers you could say Kayla and Gadarxtl were space pirates for locking up Buck. But, previous to that Buck, Wilma and Huer boarded a space ship to investigate and ended up being Emperor of nine moons. Prior to that, on June 13 1931 Ardala steals plans for an Atlantian treaty and escapes to 7,000 miles up (which is clearly in space) where she has to jump and is picked up in the stratosphere by Pirate Black Barney in his rocket ship. So we have Black Barney who is clearly a pirate but doesn’t leave the stratosphere yet and Ardala in space doing pirate like activity. Does that make either of them Space Pirates? Oh, wait. February 26, 1930 Wilma is kidnapped by Tiger Men from Mars and taken from Earth to Mars, so… [You can look though these yourself.](http://rolandanderson.se/comics/buckrogers/buckrogers.php) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-pirates-who-what-where-when-why/776593.md?page=1)