[Ads-l] Antedating of "Little Green Man" in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

[Jonathan Lighter]

I posted a few early non-spaceman LGM quotes some years ago.

This one is new.

1907 _The State_ (Columbia, S.C.) (Feb. 17) 24: THE LITTLE GREEN MEN by G.
Herb Palin...The president...was anxious to meet Eddie of New York and the
ten little green men from the moon.

Many will recall the later Gidney and Cloyd with their scrooch gun.

JL

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 7:37 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction has 1936 as its first
> citation for "little green man."  Wikipedia notes the following:
>
> "However, the first use of the specific phrase 'little green man' in
> reference to extraterrestrials that Aubeck found dates to 1908 in the Daily
> Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Maine), in this case the aliens again being
> Martians.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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