Lemuel Gulliver moon, Phobos, the crater Gulliver is named after him, while the crater Grildrig has the name given to Gulliver by the farmer's daughter Glumdalclitch in Brobdingnag, because of Swift's 'prediction' of the two then undiscovered Martian moons, which his Laputan astronomers had discovered. Lemuel Gulliver Lemuel Gulliver () is the fictional protagonist and narrator of "Gulliver's Travels", a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726. According to Swift's novel, Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire c. 1661, where his father had a small estate; the Gulliver family is said to have originated in Oxfordshire, however. He supposedly studied for
Land of the Giants Distributors also published two United Kingdom-only novels the same year, "Slingshot for a David" and "The Mean City"; both were credited to James Bradwell, a pseudonym for Arthur William Charles Kent. A hardback novel for children, "Flight of Fear" by Carl Henry Rathjen (1969), was published in the United States by Whitman. Also in 1968, Gold Key Comics published a comic book version of "Land of the Giants", which ran to five issues. In 2010, all five issues were reprinted together as a hardcover book by Hermes Press. In 1968, Aurora Plastics Company produced two plastic model kits based on