Buck Rogers adventure in Eros.
In its early days, the “Buck Rogers” comic-strip kept an eye on new developments in astronomy and tried for scientific plausibility based on the (admittedly shaky) facts of the day. The asteroid Eros was discovered in 1931 and appeared in a story that same year. A particularly prescient tale it featured a cylindrical habitat 20 miles long and 5 wide, with gravity produced by centrifugal force.
