Tuesday, December 16, 2014

MIB, Albert Bender, and Space Review


For those who may be interested, there's a new, bound collection of Albert Bender's early 1950s newsletter, Space Review, now available. Bender being the guy who played a major role in the development of the Men in Black mystery.

Here's the link...

I have written a more extensive piece on all this for the Mysterious Universe website and which will be published in the next day or two.

In the meantime, I can go one better than Bender's journals: here's one example of a number of Bender's letters I own.

This one (framed on my office wall) was sent from Bender to New Zealand researcher Harold Fulton in November 1953, and makes references to Bender's phone being "tapped," and things that will "disturb the learned ones."

3 comments:

  1. The designer for Futurama might want to get a royalty got the cover.

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  2. > got the cover.

    "for the cover" might make more sense.

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  3. What or who re the Learned Ones?

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