C. Miller & A. Van Riper 
1950s “Rocketman” TV Series and Their Fans [PDF ebook] 
Cadets, Rangers, and Junior Space Men

Foreword; H.Jenkins Introduction; A. Bowdoin Van Riper & C. J. Miller PROLOGUE: WHEN OUR STORY BEGINS Where It All Began: The Flash Gordon Serials; R. Kinnard PART I: LEARNING TO BE ROCKETMEN ‘A Commotion in the Firmament’: Tom Corbett and the Lost Boys; J. C. Tibbetts Boys Wonder: Male Teenage Assistants in 1950s Sci-Fi Movie Serials and Cold War Masculinity; R. Jacobs Girls and ‘Space Fever’; A. Foster PART II: REACHING FOR TOMORROW Space Fever: From Fantasy to Reality; H. E. Mc Curdy Shooting for the Stars: Captain Video, the Rocket Rangers, and America’s Conquest of Space; P. Luciano & G. Coville Space Opera TV: Seeing the World of Tomorrow; J. P. Telotte PART III: AS SEEN ON TV The Sky is the Limit: Advertising and Consumer Culture in Rocketman Television Shows of the 1950s; L. R. Samuel Creating a Sense of Wonder: The Glorious Legacy of Space Opera Toys of the 1950’s; S. M. Young Space Patrol : Missions of Daring in the Name of Early Television; J. Bassior PART IV: LOOKING AT THE EARTH Making the Universe Safe for Democracy: Rocky Jone s , Space Ranger ; W. W. Dixon ‘Justice through Strength and Courage’: Captain Midnight and the Military-Industrial Complex; M. Broderick ‘To Learn from the Past. . .’: Becoming Cold War Citizens with Captain Z-Ro; C. J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper EPILOGUE: THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND BEYOND Confessions of A Commando Cody Addict (Or, How The Flying Suit Changed My Life); G. Hughes

Jean-Noel Bassoir — writer Mick Broderick — Murdoch University Gary Coville — media historian Wheeler Winston Dixon — University of Nebraska, Lincoln Amy Foster — University of Central Florida Gary A. Hughes — filmmaker Robert Jacobs — Hiroshima City University Henry Jenkins — University of Southern California Roy Kinnard — writer Patrick Lucanio — writer Howard Mc Curdy — American University Lawrence R. Samuel — Founder of Culture Planning LLC J. P. Telotte — Georgia Tech John C. Tibbetts — University of Kansas S. Mark Young — University of Southern California