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SMALL_WONDER

                                             October 18, 2008


   "This is one of the small wonders of consumer
   capitalism: As the business turned more
   mercenary and seedy, it was able to provide a
   more complete fantasy world for its most
   devoted fans.  A genuine zeal had been needed
   to bring Philip Nowlan's odd vision of the          AMAZING_AUGUST_1928
   twenty-fifth century to print in the first
   place, but the investors who strectched it
   into the daily papers, the silver screen, the
   radio waves, the book pages, and the toy
   shelves examined and sold it like a bolt of
   cloth.  To the kids who could now immerse
   themselves in that simplistic, vibrant
   reality at any time and through nearly every
   sense, it didn't matter.  The cheesiness was
   a price worth paying for immersion."

                 "Men of Tomorrow" (2004)
                  by Gerard Jones               MEN_OF_TOMORROW
                  p.74 (hardback)


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