From the Earth to the Moon stories of Baron Munchausen and Cyrano de Bergerac. In 1889 Verne wrote a second sequel to the novel, "The Purchase of the North Pole", which has the Gun Club members (led by J. T. Maston) plan to use the "Columbiad" to alter the tilt of the earth to enable the mineral wealth of the Arctic region to be put within reach of exploitation. In March 1953, the Gilberton Company published a comic-book adaptation of "From the Earth to the Moon" as issue No. 105 in its Classics Illustrated series. An unidentified scriptwriter combined Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon"
From the Earth to the Moon full blessing of Jules Verne's great-grandson Jean Verne that began production in 2017. From the Earth to the Moon From the Earth to the Moon () is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a moon landing. The story is also notable in that Verne attempted to do some rough calculations as to