The Pop-Up Buck Rogers: Strange Adventures in the Spider-Ship

By Dick Calkins, Lt. Dick & Phil Nowlan Calkins, Lt. Dick Calkins

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557092362
• ISBN13: 9781557092366
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Applewood Books
• Length: 16 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

For children, read it with the 30's in mind

Originally published in 1935, this pop-up book retains all of the campy appearance of children's books of that era. The pop-ups are colorful and will attract the child's eye, although the dialog will seem strange to the modern child. It and the diagrams are unaltered and in true 30's style, there are phrases like: "LOOK! THE ALARM INDICATOR! WE'RE LOST! CAUGHT OFF GUARD! IN THE GRIP OF A DREADED COSMO-HURRICANE OF SPACE!" There really is nothing like the science fiction of that time. With very little to work with other than exclamations, made up technical phrases and scantily clad damsels, the writers, illustrators and animators did the best they could. I enjoy reading and watching it on occasion just to see be reminded of how things were. If you read this book through modern eyes, you will probably be disappointed. However, if you put yourself back to the time before television and in the depression, then you can understand how children would have been thrilled by this book.