[Leica] OT - was Ken Rockwell, now Tom Corbett, Space Cadet

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Mark,
   
      You are throwing rocks at the books some of us grew up with.  The 
originals were not available to all of us. They were already collectibles.  
The Jr. seriesw was aimed at grade school age kids.  Probably ages 8 through 
11.
   
  
Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:
  
The the originals were like
TOM SWIFT AND HIS MOTORCYCLE

Not all that Avant Garde for even then
But the Bees Knees

While the redos in the 60s were totally ridiculous
I think they were written by a panel of hacks
under the pseudonym of Victor Appleton II.
All smoking Pell Mell straights with a pot of bad percolated coffee.

TOM SWIFT AND HIS FLYING LAB
TOM SWIFT AND HIS JETMARINE
TOM SWIFT AND HIS ROCKET SHIP
TOM SWIFT AND HIS GIANT ROBOT
TOM SWIFT AND HIS ATOMIC EARTH BLASTER
TOM SWIFT AND HIS OUTPOST IN SPACE
TOM SWIFT AND HIS DIVING SEACOPTER
TOM SWIFT IN THE CAVES OF NUCLEAR FIRE
TOM SWIFT ON THE PHANTOM SATELLITE
TOM SWIFT AND HIS ULTRASONIC CYCLOPLANE
TOM SWIFT AND HIS DEEP-SEA HYDRODOME
TOM SWIFT IN THE RACE TO THE MOON
TOM SWIFT AND HIS SPACE SOLARTRON
TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRONIC RETROSCOPE
TOM SWIFT AND HIS SPECTROMARINE SELECTOR
TOM SWIFT AND THE COSMIC ASTRONAUTS
TOM SWIFT AND THE VISITOR FROM PLANET X

There was no Victor Appleton II I bet.
I think reading comic books would have been smarter.
But they were not allowed in the house.

And I don't think there was a real ULTRASONIC CYCLOPLANE either.
I think they made that up.

I've got my suspicions on that ELECTRONIC RETROSCOPE too.

Better go the BULGARIANS are closing in.

Mark Rabiner
8A/109s
New York, NY

markrabiner.com



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