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Subject: [Leica] OT - was Ken Rockwell, now Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Fri Mar 23 04:50:56 2007
References: <C2285FCD.4BD15%mark@rabinergroup.com> <DBE8F0BC-D1D6-448B-B368-F7E1F91E92ED@bex.net>

What about Dan Dare, Digby - and his aunt - and worst of all The Mekon? How 
many
listers remember them?

Peter Dzwig

Howard Ritter wrote:
> OMG! Someone else who's heard of, and remembers, Tom Corbett, Space 
> Cadet, and Astro the single-named colonist kid from Venus. Remember 
> cocky Roger Manning and hard-ass Major Connell?
> 
> Funny, but I strongly identified a high school friend with Astro and 
> another with Roger Manning, close enough fits that they could have been 
> models for the characters. I suppose I thought of myself as Tom. I had 
> the whole set of 7 or 8 hardbacks in the series. Happiest reading of my 
> adolescent years. Somewhere along the line my sainted mother gave 'em 
> away....
> 
> --howard
> 
> 
> On Mar 22, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> I think of him as Astro in Tom Corbett space cadet but I have an odd 
>> memory.
>> http://www.moosepeterson.com/gear/index.html
> 
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In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] OT - the truth about Ken Rockwell)
Message from hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter) ([Leica] OT - was Ken Rockwell, now Tom Corbett, Space Cadet)