Stretch Armstrong conducted reconnaissance on heroes from Earth and beyond (including characters from "G.I. Joe", "Transformers", "MASK", "Battleship Galaxies", "Action Man", and even "Candy Land") to help fight against Baron Karza (the enemy of the Micronauts). In September 2017, IDW Publishing announced a new comic book based on the Netflix series "Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters" for January 2018. Stretch Armstrong Stretch Armstrong is a large, gel-filled action figure first introduced in 1976 by Kenner. In 2016, at the New York Toy Fair, Hasbro announced the return of the Stretch Armstrong toy in its original 1976 design. Stretch Armstrong is an
Hugh Kenner Poetry of Ezra Pound" (1951) was dedicated to McLuhan, who had introduced Kenner to Pound on June 4, 1948, during Pound's incarceration at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C., where Kenner and McLuhan had driven as a detour from their trip from Toronto to New Haven, Connecticut. (Pound, who became a friend of Kenner's, had suggested the book be titled "The Rose in the Steel Dust".) Later, Kenner said of McLuhan, "I had the advantage of being exposed to Marshall when he was at his most creative, and then of getting to the far end of the continent shortly afterward, when