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While popular in his time, Tom proved to have less staying power than his Stratemeyer stablemates [[Hardy Boys|Frank and Joe Hardy]] and [[Nancy Drew]], perhaps because of how quickly his "cool technology" was superseded in the real world.
An Atomic-age revival of the franchise starring his son reached 30 or so volumes between 1954 and 1971, and expanded out of what was basically the [[
Revived IN SPACE! in the early 1980s, in [[Hollywood California|Southern California]] in the 1990s and [http://tomswift.bobfinnan.com/ts5.htm in the first person] in the 2000s. However, none of these series showed nearly as much staying power as the first two.
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