KING OF THE ROCKET MEN

KING OF THE ROCKET MEN. Fred Brannon, dir. USA: Republic, 1949. Serial. 12 chapters. Vt as feature, LOST PLANET AIRMEN (1951). Sequels: RADIO MEN FROM THE MOON (1952) and ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE (1952).

See for the rocket belt device; it's picked up in the Commando Cody TV series (NBC 1955)—itself a spinoff of RADAR MEN—and in THE ROCKETEER (cited below). These series are the topic of Michael Bifulco's Rocket Men of the Movies (1991), rev. Michael Klosner, SFRA Newsletter #196 (April 1992): 21-22 (our source for part of this entry).