One out of n, then. And Pleather---an important one---at that. For some reason, how rockets work tends to be misunderstood, so I guess you can give the marketoid a pass on it.
Me, I was thinking whether kids these days would have the attention span to get past the first three pages! This was clearly targeted at the comic book demographic of an earlier time! (Of course, our modern comic book demographic tends to refer to the things as "graphic novels" and keep them in plastic folders. Depressing.)
A little background on the hero turned catchphrase; courtesy of Kelloggs.
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The author didn't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion,
but he did predict Pleather.
One out of n, then. And Pleather---an important one---at that. For some reason, how rockets work tends to be misunderstood, so I guess you can give the marketoid a pass on it.
Me, I was thinking whether kids these days would have the attention span to get past the first three pages! This was clearly targeted at the comic book demographic of an earlier time! (Of course, our modern comic book demographic tends to refer to the things as "graphic novels" and keep them in plastic folders. Depressing.)
The Times didn't get it either in the 1930s, and they didn't apologise to Dr. Goddard until the 1960s, well after his death.
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