Alien: From Fleetwood's Pace Arrow motorhome to Jack Kirby's Leviathan Whale to HR Giger's Necronom III to Jack Kirby's Celestial Giant in Rocket Capsule Statue to HR Giger's Space Jockey

leading from
Jack Kirby
and
Unlocking the design of the Space Jockey 

 

 

Fleetwood's first motorhome: 1969 Pace Arrow

 

a) From Pace Arrow motorhome to Leviathan
A motorhome by Fleetwood Enteprises that can be mentally transformed into something else by those with imagination because of the curved shape at the side and the white grille against a coloured background. We have an example with a brown background, were there any other colours? Perhaps Jack Kirby saw this and it became his Leviathan.

(See: Jack Kirby's Leviathan like beast from The Old Gods references the Pace Arrow motorhome from 1969)

 

 

 

 

b) From Leviathan to Necronom III

The Leviathan whale monster featured in Jack Kirby's The New God in 1971 and would a few years later become a starting point for Giger's Necronom III as shown below.

(See: Necronom III references the "Leviathan" from The New Gods)

 

 

 

 

c) From Necronom III to statue of Celestial in his space capsule

Jack Kirby meanwhile would take Giger's Necronom III as a starting point for his own illustration of a giant statue of a Celestial in his space capsule

( See: Jack Kirby's Pakal Votan inspired space vehicle with the giant pilot statue references Giger's Necronom I & III?)

 

 

 Celestial Giant in Rocket Capsule Statue from The Eternals

d) From Statue of Celestial in his space capsule to The Space Jockey

After that, it appears as if Giger used Kirby's giant celestial in a space capsule as a point of reference along with a number of other things for his own Space Jockey design. The ribbed ridge along the canopy of the cockpit bubble perhaps transforms into the viewer that the Space Jockey looks into. The Galactic Eye in the background to suggests that the bulbous lower end of the telescope could well be an eye as well.

Alien Pilot (Space Jockey)