![]() When Secord discovers the strange contraption-essentially a small rocket with a harness to attach it to the pilot’s back-he seizes on it as a chance to win fame and impress his girlfriend Betty. The story, set in 1938, begins when a pair of criminals hide a stolen rocket pack in the cockpit of stunt pilot Cliff Secord’s plane. Drawing on the Commando Cody movie serials of the 1950s and pulp novels of the 1930s, Stevens created the Rocketeer and his world as a beautifully rendered homage to a more innocent age. The character had its genesis in a backup story in Starslayer, a fantasy comic by independent publisher Pacific Comics. The Rocketeer, American comic strip character created by writer and artist Dave Stevens in 1982. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians. ![]()
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