He was influenced during his 1950s childhood by trips to Disneyland, reading comic books, and watching television. "I read Tommy Tomorrow and, of course, lots of (other) comics," he tells Kerry O'Quinn in
Starlog magazine. "Mostly DC comics--Batman and Superman. But I was also real keen on Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck." "I loved Disneyland," he confides to Dale Pollack in the biography
Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas. "I wandered around, I'd go on the rides and bumper cars, the steamboats, the shooting galleries, the jungle rides. I was in heaven." But perhaps the greatest influence on his later filmmaking career was television. "My favorite things were Republic serials and things like Flash Gordon," he tells O'Quinn. "There was a television program called 'Adventure Theater' at 6:00 every night. We didn't have a TV set, so I used to go over to a friend's house and we watched it religiously. It was a twenty-minute serial chapter, and the left over minutes of the half hour was filled with 'Crusader Rabbit.' I loved it."
By the early 1960s, Lucas had moved into a different sphere.
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