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Columbia made a movie serial, starring Judd Holdren, under the name Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951). However, it displayed only marginally better sets and props than its TV inspiration. Some special effects were accomplished with cel animation, inspired by earlier use in another, successful serial from the same studio, Superman.
Six issues of a Captain Video comic book were published by Fawcett Comics in 1951. The rival space adventure programs Tom Corbett and Space Patrol shortly thereafter had their own comic books as well. Some of these comics were used as the basis for a British TV Annual, a hardcover collection produced in time for Christmas, which also made the claim that man would venture into space in 1970 and would reach the moon by 2000. Tom Corbett in addition had a syndicated daily newspaper strip, and a set of juvenile series books published by Grossett and Dunlap. Columbia Pictures made a theatrical film serial, Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere, the only instance of such a production being based on a television program. Tom Corbett and Space Patrol were also heard on ABC network radio; however, since DuMont had no affiliated radio network, DuMont never provided a radio version of Captain Video's adventures.
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