King of the Rocket Men (1949)
King of the Rocket Men is a 1949 12-chapter Republic movie serial, notable for introducing the Rocket Man, who would later appear with different character identities in the rocket-powered hero serials that followed: Radar Men from the Moon (1949), Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952), and Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953), (later syndicated on television in 1955 as a 25 episode series with the same title).
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