Perisphere Payne

Perisphere Payne is the commander of a large and essentially Buck Rogers style space rocket. His adventurers are very much in the vein of stopping alliterative menaces and rescuing people from space disasters or space monsters.

Perisphere?
The Perisphere debuted at the World's Fair in New York in 1939 along with its companion piece the Trylon. Fox used the name to make this particular space hero more up to the minute and fu-tur-istic.