Despite having a single comic book appearance, Rocketman was the title character of his own product labeled the Televiewer. The item wasn't a projector, and more like what would eventually evolve into the View Master toy. The comic Rocketman came from was a one-shot printed by Ajax-Farrell about Rock Raymond in the year 25,000 zipping around in his rocketship, but is really just a reprinted collection of the questionably named Spurt Hammond from Fiction House's Planet Comics. Considering that Rocketman's comic came out a decade after Spurt's adventures, that didn't stop someone from trying to make a quick buck selling this cheap little filmstrip feeder as it appeared in numerous 1950s comic from several different publishers. It seems like it might have sold better if they just kept the original character, and simply called it the "Spurt Televiewer".
Despite having a single comic book appearance, Rocketman was the title character of his own product labeled the Televiewer. The item wasn't a projector, and more like what would eventually evolve into the View Master toy. The comic Rocketman came from was a one-shot printed by Ajax-Farrell about Rock Raymond in the year 25,000 zipping around in his rocketship, but is really just a reprinted collection of the questionably named Spurt Hammond from Fiction House's Planet Comics. Considering that Rocketman's comic came out a decade after Spurt's adventures, that didn't stop someone from trying to make a quick buck selling this cheap little filmstrip feeder as it appeared in numerous 1950s comic from several different publishers. It seems like it might have sold better if they just kept the original character, and simply called it the "Spurt Televiewer".
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