The recurring Tom Swift-like character in the Annie comic strip is back: http://www.comicspage.com/annie/index.html If the archives go far enough back you can...
Greetings fellow Swifters... George Dombi and I (with the input of James Keeline, Jack Dizer, and others) have been working with the Glenn Curtis museum in...
Just joined this group. I have several Tom Swift Jrs. with a brown jacket. These were from an old school library. Do they have any collector/resale value?...
... and others) have been working with the Glenn Curtis museum in Shopton (I mean Hammondsport), NY to put together a Tom Swift Weekend for 2009. Plans are...
... The word "jacket" is normally used for paper wrappers. "Boards" is the name for the covers. A couple collectors buy samples of library bindings once they...
... I would hope that we would have many more but even at a dozen people it could be worth doing. The key is getting people to chip in to help out at various ...
For the most part Tom Sr. didn't actually "invent" stuff, he just improved existing technology. So I'd have to say his most original invention was his electric...
... The photo telephone was also very impressive. There have been analogs for it going back to the 1960s and today's cell phone cameras and web cams in ...
... ?? 8)>> My 'antique television' bookshelf shows Bell Labs demoing 'live moving pictures by wire' over their existing long distance circuits on roughly the...
Generally not in juvies, though. ... I could be wrong but I believe the technology involved in making babies existed before Tom Sr. came along! Recent Activity...
... I'm trying to remember who it was who said: "Making life in the laboratory isn't impossible . . . provided the lab assistant is pretty and willing." ...
I may have said this before but IMHO "Caves Of Ice" is the best story in the TS Sr. canon and is definitely in the top 4 of all boys series books. This story...
Bob's top four series books: Tom Swift In The Caves Of Ice Hardy Boys "The House On The Cliff" OT Ted Scott "Over The Ocean To Paris" Don Sturdy In The Tombs...
Bob's top four series books: Tom Swift In The Caves Of Ice Hardy Boys "The House On The Cliff" OT Ted Scott "Over The Ocean To Paris" Don Sturdy In The Tombs...
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1096382 Readying for takeoff Start-up seeks state aid in bid to make car-plane By Jay Fitzgerald...
I wonder if with the cost of gas, it will be too late to succeed. OTOH, it might be cost effective if it shortened the time as well as the distance compared...
... If i recall, one of the articles, maybe this one, had the mpg in the air estimated. ... Not specifically, tho pilot friends say they are reasonably ...
Tom Swift clone "Tom Short" is back in the Little Orphan Annie strip. Airship fans should take a look here: http://www.comicspage.com/annie/index.html ~~ RWF...
Boy it has been a long time since I saw an Annie cartoon. Looks like they have updated her image a lot. It is interesting that even though she uses cell...
I just finished 'Tom Swift and his Sky Racer' today, and I noticed that on page 160 (Ch 21), near the bottom it menfioned that Tom (Sr.) said a little prayer...
i was looking online and i came across a tom swift book that had a cover format that a had never seen before. it had a brown cover and it only said the title...
I was just rereading the article from Variety about Tom Swift and Worldwide Biggies, and I noticed that mention was made that the first adventure would be a...
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