Tom Corbett Danger in Deep Space
date: label: Date made
content: 1952
name: label: author
content: Rockwell, Carey
label: publisher
content: Grosset and Dunlap
label: maker
content: Grosset and Dunlap
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: DANGER IN DEEP SPACE. By Carey Rockwell, Willy Ley Technical Adviser (New York, NY: Grossett and Dunlap, 1952), 209 pgs. Tom Corbett Space Cadet adventure series. Drawing of person shooting space gun on cover.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Tom Corbett was based on a character in Robert Heinlein's juvenile novel, Space Cadet, published in 1948. Tom's career covered every media outlet of the 1950s except the movies. Grossett and Dunlap published a series of 8 books, 1952-1956, but the most remembered aspect of the Tom Corbett mythos was a television series which aired from 1950 to 1956.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Literature
label: Subject
content: Children
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0378.06
label: accession number
content: 1990.0378
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0378.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 5 5/16 in x 1 1/4 in; 19.685 cm x 13.5255 cm x 3.175 cm