Word: nowlan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Dille, head of the National Newspaper Syndicate, decided to put out a science-fiction comicstrip, he did some reading in sci-fi magazines-then just entering their fabled Golden Age-and found two stories he liked; "Armageddon 2419 A. D." and "The Warlords of Han." both by Phil Nowlan. He fast-talked Nowlan into writing the new strip, got him together with an artist named Dick Calkins, and let him go. The strip that resulted ran for almost forty years in newspapers all over the world...
...Nowlan, a deep-dyed sci-fi fanatic, was not going to let any garbage about what the public would accept stand in the way of his imagination. When I began the book I expected to see the usual massculture view of the future world: the glory of the future American superstate-usually a "World Government" democratically ruled by Americans-in which supercars zoom over mega-highways toward ultracities. But on page 21 found myself staring at the Destruction of the Washington Monument by the Mongols...