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Introducing



PERRY RHODAN



AND HIS ELECTRIC PERSONALITY



By

Forrest J Ackerman



As Tom said to Jonathan, “The race belongs to the Swift.”

Or are you too young to remember Tom Swift? (In the Land of Wonders, his Planet Stone.) And
Roy Rockwood and his Clarke’s Tours of the solar system. (Air Express to Venus-air?!–By Space
Ship to Saturn.) The Carl H. Claudy classics, includingThe Mystery Men of Mars . These boys’ sf
books of a less sophisticated generation never won any Hugos (and not just because they were published
prior to the establishment of the annual science fiction “Oscar” awards) but they did generate a great deal
of entertainment.

Then there was Gordon, who was flashy, and Rogers, who was always bucking the baddies. You
probably heard of Buck and Flash in the movie serial or comics or TV re-vivals or camp posters.

Now comes, roaring into the 70’s–PERRY RHODAN … earth-tamer … planet adventurer …
star-seeker … Peacelord of the Universe!

America, for once has lagged behind–we are8 years behind the Germans in discovering the world’s
greatest spaceman. In the pulp era of our past we have had many great continuing characters: Doc
Savage, the Shadow, Captain Future, G-8, et al. Savage started in ’33 and ended in ’49 and is, 20 years
after his disappearance, enjoying a renaissance in paperback. But the 16 years of Doc Savage’s exploits
cannot possibly compare with such an impressive record as Perry RHodan’s because Doc, most of the
time. appeared only monthly, sometimes bimonthly, whereas Perry, since the beginning, has been
publishedweekly!

Ain’t that outasite? (I hope I’m hip to the mod slanguage because I’m so old that I remember when
people blew their noses instead of their minds.) Over 400 adventures of Perry Rhodan, Thora, Gucky
(the mouse-beaver), Atlan and all the characters you will come to know and who will grow on you–over
400have already been published abroad!

Every week in Germany a new Perry Rhodan plot appears and sells out an edition of 130,000 copies
(No American science fiction periodical equals that record even on amonthly basis.) Germany–with a
population of only one-third that of the United States! If Germany had our population it would mean that
approximately 400,000 people would be reading Perry every seven days!