Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster (The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures, Book 5)

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 11x7x2. Kaye, Graham. First edition (MAD 58600-5-1) - rear jacket panel advertises Hardy Boys Junior Adventurer's Club, prelim list through His Atomic Earth Blaster, rear jacket flap through The Lost Explorers (The Bomba Books No. 10). 2 inch circular stain on rear jacket panel, jacket lightly rubbed with minor loss from corners, jacket price clipped. 1954 Hard Cover. 210 pp. Blue tweed boards, frontispiece and endpapers by Graham Kaye. "Tom Swift Jr. is the central character in a series of 33 adventure novels for male adolescents, following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift ("Senior") novels. The series was entitled The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures. Unlike the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys titles that were also products of the prolific Stratemeyer Syndicate, the original Tom Swift stories were not rewritten in the 1950s to modernize them. It was decided that the protagonist of the new series would be the son of the earlier Tom Swift and his wife, Mary Nestor Swift; the original hero continued as a series regular, as did his pal Ned Newton.