Brobdingnag Brobdingnag Brobdingnag is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels" occupied by giants. Lemuel Gulliver visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course and he is separated from a party exploring the unknown land. In the second preface to the book, Gulliver laments that this is a misspelling introduced by the publisher and the land is actually called Brobdingrag. The adjective "Brobdingnagian" has come to describe anything of colossal size. Swift describes the location of Brobdingnag, and its geography, in the text of Part II of "Gullivers Travels", and
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