'Arena', the original short story the TOS ep was based on, was published in June 1944
Happy 80th birthday to the proto-Gorn!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_(short_story)
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Fascinating!
There's a comic adaptation and the original scanned here:
swords-and-veeblefetzers.blogspot.com/2009/12/worlds-unknown-04-fredric-browns-arena.html
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