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                                             September 30, 2008
                                             October   12, 2008


  "Men of Tomorrow" (2004) by Gerard Jones
                                                          MEN_OF_TOMORROW

    "In the archaeology of popular culture,
    the August 1928 issue of _Amazing
    Stories_ appears again and again as a
    pivotal memory of a generation of
    moviemakers, science ficiton writers,
    cartoonists, astronomers, futurists,
    and rocket engineers.  Against a lucid         He's also gripping a
    yellow background floats a man in a            glowing joy-stick
    skintight red costume, leather pilot's         phallus attached to
    helmet, and sleek black boots, his body        his back-pack by a cable.
    prone but angling upward in an attitude
    of nascent flight."  p. 30

                                   [ref]

  That was an illustration by
  Frank R. Paul for "The             The same issue contained
  Skylark of Space".                 "Armageddon 2419,"
                                     by Philip Francis Nowlan,
     SKYLARK                         the story that was adapted
                                     to become Buck Rodgers.





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