Corbett Continues
The series would ultimately run for five seasons, beginning its fourth season on DuMont Network in 1953, and its fifth and final season a year later on NBC. Grosset & Dunlap published its eighth "Tom Corbett" title (Robot Rocket) in 1955/56, marking the effective end of the series on radio, television, and in books.
Following an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service in 1965 over delinquent taxes, Rockhill's rights to Tom Corbett were purchased by a new entity, Direct Recordings, Inc. while papers owned by Stanley Wolfe were later donated to the University of Southern California.
In 1980, well-known comics author Chris Claremont produced a Tom Corbett, Space Cadet novel for Dell Publishing, but it has remained unpublished. Four years later, Greene gave his personal "kinescopes" of the television episodes to TV nostalgia merchant Wade Williams, who subsequently assumed some rights to Corbett.
In 1990, Eternity Comics produced a five-issue collection of the 1950s newspaper strips, under the title Original Tom Corbett, Space Cadet.
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