Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I read these avidly as a child. "All clear, forward and up!" Adam On 3/22/07, Howard Ritter <hlritter@bex.net> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >