Yager had formal art training at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and was a talented watercolor artist; all the strips were done in ink and watercolor. Good to have; pity Hermes Press did them though, Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2016, It's nice to have the Buck Rogers dailies finally being released; I only wish another publisher had done it. Listing of the publication history for the Buck Rogers comic strip. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Flash Gordon Buck Rogers Sci Fi Classic Whitman Comic Books Science Fiction 80s . Please try your request again later. In 1934, Famous Funnies, the first regularly-issued monthly comic, established the format and price for all comic books to follow. Enter the era of the plastic battery-powered flashlight raygun. Track nine of Hyphy Bay Area rapper Mac Dre's album Heart of a Gangsta, Mind of a Hustla, Tongue of a Pimp (2000) is titled "Black Buck Rogers". In 1946, following World War II and the advent of the atomic bomb, Daisy reissued the XZ-38 in a silver finish that mimicked the new jet aircraft of the day as the U-235 Atomic Pistol. Of the many toys associated with Buck Rogers, none is more closely identified with the franchise than the eponymous toy rayguns. Centered below is a synopsis of the Buck Rogers series. (4/22/62 to 7/22/62), S70 "Googie and Carol" (7/29/62 to 10/14/62), S71 "Space Survival Kit" (10/21/62 to 1/6/63), S72 "Huk's Hostage" (1/13/63 to 3/31/63), S73 "The Old Toymaker" (4/7/63 to 6/30/63), S74 "Heart Central" (7/7/63 to 9/29/63), S75 "Exploring Transient-101" (10/6/63 to 1/5/64), S77 "Interplanetary Olympic Games" (3/29/64 to 7/5/64), S78 "Slippery Circus Clown" (7/12/64 to 9/27/64), S79 "Alfie the Inventive Genius" (10/4/64 to 12/27/64), S81 "Big Game Hunt" (3/28/65 to 6/13/65), Part 1 "Captured by Tigermen" (Series I, Strips 457 to 480), Part 2 "The Island of Doom" (Series I, Strips 481 to 506), Part 3 "Flight of the Ghost Ship" (Series I, Strips 507 to 538), Part 4 "The Red Ray" (Series I, Strips 539 to 552), Part 1 "Hydro" (Series I, Strips 573 to 581), Part 2 "Scorpia" (Series I, Strips 582 to 597), Part 3 "Arcto" (Series I, Strips 598 to 600, Series II, Strips 1 to 6), Part 4 "Hexxo" (Series II, Strips 7 to 20), Part 1 "Through the Door of No Return" (Series II, Strips 21 to 58), Part 2 "The Mission of 99-Zero" (Series II, Strips 59 to 77), Part 3 "Marooned on the Planet of the Rising Sun" (Series II, Strips 78 to 101), Part 4 "Arrival of the Mysterious Sky Wizard" (Series II, Strips 102 to 122), Part 1 "Enslaved in Niarb's Mind Foundry" (Series II, Strips 132 to 143), Part 2 "Treasure Hunting on Llore" (Series II, Strips 144 to 180), Part 1 "Voyage of the Golden Spaceship El Dorado" (Series II, Strips 181 to 216), Part 2 "Trapped on Tantoris" (Series II, Strips 217 to 250), Part 3 "The Terrible Creations of Dr. Nameless" (Series II, Strips 251 to 270), Part 1 "Moon Song's Misfortune" (Series II, Strips 271 to 285), Part 2 "The Ring and Arrow Boys" (Series II, Strips 286 to 302), Part 3 "Enter Commodore Pounce" (Series II, Strips 303 to 321), Part 4 "Dogfight for the Uranium Fields" (Series II, Strips 322 to 357), SS01 "Adventures of Wilma" (11/18/34 to 6/9/35) (Series I, Strips 243 to 272), SS02 "Captain Spear of the Martian Patrol" (6/16/35 to 8/11/35) (Series I, Strips 273 to 281), SS03 "Peril Planet" (8/18/35 to 12/22/35) (Series I, Strips 282 to 300), SS04 "Lost in Space" (12/29/35 to 3/29/36) (Series I, Strips 301 to 314), SS05 "The Flat Planet of Hex" (4/5/36 to 8/2/36) (Series I, Strips 315 to 332), SS06 "The Ghost Planet" (8/9/36 to 9/27/36) (Series I, Strips 333 to 340), SS07 "Black Barney on Earth" (10/4/36 to 11/22/36) (Series I, Strips 341 to 348), SS08 "The Wizard of Zoor" (11/29/36 to 2/28/37) (Series I, Strips 349 to 362), SS09 "Oghpore the Terrible" (3/7/37 to 5/9/37) (Series I, Strips 363 to 372), SS10 "Buzz Brent Calling C-Q" (5/16/37 to 7/4/37) (Series I, Strips 373 to 380), R01 "On the Moon of Madness!" Original series daily comic strip stories, Original series Sunday comic strip stories, Original series Sunday "Sub-Strip" story guide, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Buck Rogers Battle for the 25th Century, High Adventure Cliffhangers Buck Rogers Adventure Game, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Buck_Rogers_comic_strips&oldid=1097455969, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, D001 "Meeting the Mongols" (1/7/29 to 7/5/29) (Series I, Strips 1 to 155), D002 "Capturing the Mongol Emperor" (7/6/29 to 10/9/29) (Series I, Strips 156 to 237), D003 "Pact of Perpetual Peace" (10/10/29 to 11/26/29) (Series I, Strips 238 to 278), D004 "Defeat of the Mongol Rebels" (11/27/29 to 1/21/30) (Series I, Strips 279 to 326), D005 "Tiger Men of Mars" (1/22/30 to 5/21/30) (Series I, Strips 327 to 429) -, D006 "Land of the Golden People" (5/22/30 to 8/23/30) (Series I, Strips 430 to 510), D007 "Synthetic Gold Plot" (8/25/30 to 11/15/30) (Series I, Strips 511 to 582), D008 "In the City Below the Sea" (11/17/30 to 5/11/31) (Series I, Strips 583 to 733), D009 "Mystery of the Atlantian Gold Ships" (5/12/31 to 8/15/31) (Series I, Strips 734 to 816), D010 "On the Planetoid Eros" (8/17/31 to 12/2/31) (Series I, Strips 817 to 909), D011 "On the Moons of Saturn" (12/3/31 to 5/14/32) (Series I, Strips 910 to 1050), D012 "Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet" (5/16/32 to 8/29/32) (Series I, Strips 1051 to 1141), D013 "Asterite Invaders" (8/30/32 to 2/24/33) (Series I, Strips 1142 to 1295), D014 "The Great Wolves of Jupiter" (2/25/33 to 6/22/33) (Series I, Strips 1296 to 1396), D015 "In the City of Floating Globes" (6/23/33 to 9/1/33) (Series I, Strips 1397 to 1457), D016 "Depth Men of Jupiter" (9/2/33 to 11/8/33) (Series I, Strips 1458 to 1515), D017 "Tika of the Tidegates" (11/9/33 to 1/20/34) (Series I, Strips 1516 to 1578), D018 "Doom Comet" (1/22/34 to 5/5/34) (Series II, Strips 1 to 90), D019 "Rebuilding the World" (5/7/34 to 9/1/34) (Series II, Strips 91 to 192), D020 "Planetoid Plot" (9/3/34 to 2/19/35) (Series II, Strips 193 to 338), D021 "Rescue of King Innaldo" (2/20/35 to 5/11/35) (Series II, Strips 339 to 408), D022 "Prisoners on Uranus" (5/13/35 to 12/16/35) (Series II, Strips 409 to 595), D023 "Liquid Light" (12/17/35 to 2/19/36) (Series II, Strips 596 to 651), D024 "Mummies of Ceres" (2/20/36 to 4/15/36) (Series II, Strips 652 to 698), D025 "Palladian Space Pirates" (4/16/36 to 12/4/36) (Series II, Strips 699 to 899), D026 "Princess Elthana of Venus Visits Earth" (12/5/36 to 3/20/37) (Series II, Strips 900 to 990), D027 "Interplanetary War With Venus" (3/22/37 to 11/13/37) (Series III, Strips 1 to 204), D028 "Wokkie and the Novans" (11/15/37 to 4/8/38) (Series III, Strips 205 to 329), D029 "The Fiend of Space" (4/9/38 to 8/19/38) (Series III, Strips 330 to 443), D030 "Overturned World" (8/20/38 to 12/2/38) (Series III, Strips 444 to 533), D031 "Martian War Threat" (12/3/38 to 7/31/39) (Series III, Strips 534 to 739), D032 "The Super-Dwarf of Space" (8/1/39 to 3/23/40) (Series III, Strips 740 to 774; Series IV, Strips 1 to 168), D033 "Forgotten Earth Colony" (3/25/40 to 6/20/40) (Series IV, Strips 169 to 180; Series V, Strips 1 to 64), D034 "Thrown Back 500 Years" (6/21/40 to 3/24/41) (Series V, Strips 65 to 301), D035 "Goddess of Stygia" (3/25/41 to 10/11/41) (Series V, Strips 302 to 474), D036 "Martians Invade Jupiter" (10/13/41 to 2/6/43) (Series VI, Strips 1 to 414), D037 "Mechanical Bloodhound" (2/8/43 to 7/10/43) (Series VI, Strips 415 to 546), D038 "Monkeymen of Planet X" (7/12/43 to 1/29/44) (Series VII, Strips 1 to 180), D039 "Hollow Planetoid" (1/31/44 to 7/22/44) (Series VIII, Strips 1 to 150), D040 "Plastic Percy" (7/24/44 to 12/2/44) (Series VIII, Strips 151 to 264), D041 "Planets, Incorporated" (12/4/44 to 2/24/45) (Series VIII, Strips 265 to 336), D042 "Explosive Light" (2/26/45 to 6/19/45) (Series IX, Strips 1 to 98), D043 "Time Retracto Swindle" (6/20/45 to 10/13/45) (Series IX, Strips 99 to 102; Series X, Strips 1 to 96), D044 "Brain Ray Threat" (10/15/45 to 5/6/46) (Series XI, Strips 1 to 102; Series XII, Strips 1 to 73), D045 "Kane's Double vs. the Atomites" (5/7/46 to 2/1/47) (Series XII, Strips 73-A/74 to 192), D046 "Wanted For Murder" (2/3/47 to 12/27/47), D047 "Dr. Modar of Saturn" (12/29/47 to 12/10/48), D048 "Lost Planet of Thor" (12/11/48 to 8/25/49), D049 "Vulcan Trouble-Shooter" (8/26/49 to 1/13/51), D051 "Asteroid "Z"" (7/4/51 to 10/20/51), D052 "Stolen Space Fortress" (10/22/51 to 1/8/52), D053 "Operation Survival" (1/9/52 to 9/16/52), D054 "Operation Vanish" (9/17/52 to 2/12/53), D055 "Octopus of Space" (2/13/53 to 6/2/53), D056 "Dogfight on the Moon" (6/3/53 to 9/19/53), D057 "Rocketship Graveyard" (9/21/53 to 2/10/54), D058 "Space Tide" (2/11/54 to 12/22/54), D059 "Arctic Bubble Men" (12/23/54 to 6/28/55), D061 "Great Tog Mystery" (2/16/56 to 8/14/56), D062 "Black Swan's Volcano Protection" (8/15/56 to 11/2/56), D063 "Pleiadite War Machine" (11/3/56 to 4/17/57), D064 "Star of Mars" (4/18/57 to 8/6/57), D065 "Abduction of Princess Elthana" (8/7/57 to 10/31/57), D066 "Death Sphere" (11/1/57 to 1/10/58), D067 "Eternal Youth" (1/11/58 to 7/10/58), D068 "Hydro-X Bomb Threat" (7/11/58 to 9/11/58), D069 "Trouble at the Great Moon Fair" (9/12/58 to 12/12/58), D070 "Threat to the Space Mirror" (12/13/58 to 4/23/59), D071 "Rebels of Uras" (4/24/59 to 8/20/59), D072 "Stolen Zero-Bomb Formula" (8/21/59 to 12/15/59), D073 "Greetings to Earth From Elektrum" (12/16/59 to 4/7/60), D074 "Revolt of the Dwarf Princess" (4/8/60 to 7/7/60), D075 "Caltechium Heist" (7/8/60 to 10/15/60), D076 "Episode on Starrock" (10/17/60 to 2/9/61), D077 "Miss Solar System Beauty Pageant" (2/10/61 to 5/20/61), D078 "Mysticus Metallicus" (5/22/61 to 8/22/61), D079 "Defective Super Alloy" (8/23/61 to 11/30/61), D080 "Missing Scientists" (12/1/61 to 3/2/62), D081 "Poison Epidemic" (3/3/62 to 5/26/62), D082 "Planetary Peace Brigade" (5/28/62 to 8/24/62), D083 "Undersea Station" (8/25/62 to 12/13/62), D084 "Advertising Scheme" (12/14/62 to 2/23/63), D086 "Operation Crop Failure" (5/6/63 to 7/18/63), D087 "Penal Asteroid" (7/19/63 to 9/28/63), D088 "Million-Dollar Crooner" (9/30/63 to 12/11/63), D089 "Bullet of Light" (12/12/63 to 2/19/64), D091 "Martian Trojan Horse" (4/27/64 to 6/27/64), D092 "Project Baby Boy" (6/29/64 to 10/2/64), D093 "Venusian Jury Duty" (10/3/64 to 12/12/64), D094 "Blackmail Decoy" (12/14/64 to 2/18/65), D095 "Tactical Exercises" (2/19/65 to 5/1/65), D096 "Poisoned Food Shipment" (5/3/65 to 7/8/65), D097 "Space Gypsies" (7/9/65 to 10/1/65), D098 "Space Race Treachery" (10/2/65 to 12/8/65), D099 "False Reputation" (12/9/65 to 2/21/66), D100 "Broken Cease-Fire" (2/22/66 to 4/25/66), D101 "Fashion Pirates" (4/26/66 to 6/24/66), D102 "Visitors From Ophiuchus" (6/25/66 to 8/30/66), D103 "Reunion on Titan" (8/31/66 to 12/9/66), D104 "Cosmic Fever" (12/10/66 to 2/24/67), D105 "Underground Menace" (2/25/67 to 5/13/67), D106 "The Land of Goldie Silver" (5/15/67 to 7/8/67), Part 1 "Escape From Ceres" (4/16/36 to 5/29/36) (Series II, Strips 700 to 737), Part 2 "Mission to Pallas" (5/30/36 to 9/17/36) (Series II, Strips 738 to 832), Part 3 "Interplanetary War" (9/18/36 to 12/4/36) (Series II, Strips 833 to 899), Part 1 "Behind Martian Lines" (10/13/41 to 11/19/42) (Series VI, Strips 1 to 346), Part 2 "Capture of Madwolf Hetlah" (11/20/42 to 2/6/43) (Series VI, Strips 347 to 414), Part 1 "The Founding of Port Buck Rogers" (8/26/49 to 6/24/50), Part 2 "Invasion of the Zot Mogs" (6/26/50 to 1/13/51), Part 1 "Plot to Seize Washington" (1/9/52 to 5/1/52), Part 2 "Mysterious Death-Cloud" (5/2/52 to 7/3/52), Part 3 "The Red Robes" (7/4/52 to 9/16/52), Part 1 "The Quadri-Thrust" (2/11/54 to 4/17/54), Part 2 "Maid of Mercury" (4/19/54 to 6/1/54), Part 3 "Black Swan and Cygnet" (6/2/54 to 12/22/54), Part 1 "Escape From the Amazon" (6/29/55 to 10/6/55), Part 2 "Baby Genius" (10/7/55 to 2/15/56), S01 "Golden Princess of Mars" (3/30/30 to 6/15/30) (Series I, Strips 1 to 12), S02 "Fish Men of Planet X" (6/22/30 to 9/7/30) (Series I, Strips 13 to 24), S03 "Mysterious Saturnian" (9/14/30 to 11/30/30) (Series I, Strips 25 to 36), S04 "Marooned on Venus" (12/7/30 to 7/12/31) (Series I, Strips 37 to 68), S05 "Land of Mystery" (7/19/31 to 10/25/31) (Series I, Strips 69 to 83), S06 "Prisoners of Alpha Centaurians" (11/1/31 to 1/24/32) (Series I, Strips 84 to 96), S07 "Attacked by Mercurians" (1/31/32 to 8/7/32) (Series I, Strips 97 to 124), S08 "Remaking Ancient Aster" (8/14/32 to 11/27/32) (Series I, Strips 125 to 140), S09 "Locket of Madness" (12/4/32 to 2/26/33) (Series I, Strips 141 to 153), S10 "Prophet of the Fire Demon" (3/5/33 to 5/21/33) (Series I, Strips 154 to 165), S11 "Enslaving the Giants" (5/28/33 to 12/10/33) (Series I, Strips 166 to 194), S12 "Amazons of Venus" (12/17/33 to 5/6/34) (Series I, Strips 195 to 215), S13 "Strange Adventures in the Spider Ship" (5/13/34 to 10/21/34) (Series I, Strips 216 to 239), S14 "Mekkanos of Planet Vulcan" (10/28/34 to 1/6/35) (Series I, Strips 240 to 250), S15 "Exploring the Water Moon of Mercury" (1/13/35 to 3/17/35) (Series I, Strips 251 to 260), S16 "Fleeing the Long Night" (3/24/35 to 6/2/35) (Series I, Strips 261 to 271), S17 "Masked Sky Pirates" (6/9/35 to 12/15/35) (Series I, Strips 272 to 299), S18 "Menace of Mura" (12/22/35 to 8/16/36) (Series I, Strips 300 to 334), S19 "Invaders From a Dying World" (8/23/36 to 11/15/36) (Series I, Strips 335 to 347), S20 "The Mind of Minds" (11/22/36 to 1/17/37) (Series I, Strips 348 to 356), S21 "Wilma to the Rescue" (1/24/37 to 4/25/37) (Series I, Strips 357 to 370), S22 "War With Venus" (5/2/37 to 10/10/37) (Series I, Strips 371 to 394), S23 "Mysterious New World" (10/17/37 to 6/5/38) (Series I, Strips 395 to 428), S24 "Secret City of Mechanical Men" (6/12/38 to 9/18/38) (Series I, Strips 429 to 443), S25 "Earth Shifts on Axis" (9/25/38 to 12/18/38) (Series I, Strips 444 to 456), S26 "Martian Invasion of Earth" (12/25/38 to 10/20/40) (Series I, Strips 457 to 552), S27 "N.E.L.D.A. Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2009. Buck Rogers (Buster Crabbe) and his young friend Buddy Wade get caught in a blizzard and are forced to crash their airship in the Arctic wastes. Her prize was a brand new white bicycle with blue trim and an attached basket which she used to hold her books from the library. Some have suggested that Dille coined that name based on the 1920s cowboy actor Buck Jones.[8]. Some mark this as the beginning of modern character based licensed merchandising, in that not only was the character's name and image branded on many unrelated products, but also on many items of merchandise unique to or directly inspired by that character. Following up on the success of the Rocket Pistol and the surging popularity of Buck Rogers, in 1935 Daisy produced a new Buck Rogers gun, the XZ-38 Disintegrator Pistol. There were only a few expansion modules created for High-Adventure Cliffhangers. By then, pop guns were considered old-fashioned, and even the Buck Rogers franchise was losing its luster, having been overtaken by real-world events and the prospect of actual crewed space flight. While many science fiction authors and other depictions in popular culture showed rockets landing vertically, typically resting after landing on the space vehicle's fins, Buck Rogers seems to have gained a special place as a descriptive compound adjective. The early strips were numbered rather than dated, and every so often the numbering was restarted, creating a new strip numbering "series". There has been speculation that two more stories were printed but not widely distributed. These were a set of six British Premium figures for Cream of Wheat and included Buck, Dr. Huer, Wilma, Kane, Ardala and an unidentified Mekkano Man Robot. (Links to 1302 images of the Buck Rogers comic strips are at the bottom of this introduction.). Strip originally written by Phil Nowlan and drawn by Dick Calkins ----------------------------------------------------- Buck Rogers / by Phil Nowlan and Dick Calkins. At the height of its popularity, the Buck Rogers comic strip was published in nearly 300 newspapers in the United States. Buck Rogers In The 25th Century The Complete Collection arrives on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics in a 9-Disc Blu-ray set. Buck Rogers is a fictional character who first appeared in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories as Anthony Rogers. Hermes Press alters some of the strips (presumably for copyright purposes) bizarrely, and at time distractingly. The proofs contain both the comic pages themselves and typewritten scripts for each strip. Retailed for 50, which was by no means inexpensive during the Great Depression, it was designed to mimic the rocket pistols seen in the comic strips from their inception. Buck Rogers is a science fiction adventure hero and feature comic strip created by Philip Francis Nowlan first appearing in daily U.S. newspapers on January 7, 1929, and subsequently appearing in Sunday newspapers, international newspapers, books and multiple media with adaptations including radio in 1932, a serial film, a television series, and other formats. Buck Rogers (1979 Whitman) #5. This one has been nicknamed "The Wilma Pistol". Media Release Hermes Press continues its definitive reprint collection of the vintage Buck Rogers daily comic strip with Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: the Complete Newspaper Dailies-Volume 5, 1935-1936.Americans were well steeped in the Great Depression when these strips came out, but that didn't keep writer Philip Nowlan or artist Dick Calkins from challenging the troubles of a . Pity there's no way to keep them away from other classic comic strips. Good box office returns led NBC to commission a full series, which started in September 1979. Buck Rogers #2 January 1941 Own Want eBay Value By Grade Low $195 Mid $745 High $1.9k 68-page collection of Buck Rogers Sunday strips which followed a different storyline than the daily strips Meet the New Post-Gazette Sunday Funnies March 1949 Own Want eBay Value By Grade Low $120 Mid $400 High $1.2k The XZ-44 Liquid Helium Water Pistol was produced in late 1935 and early 1936. 1024, 1007, For all of its reference to modern technology, the strip itself was produced in an old-fashioned manner all strips began as India ink drawings on Strathmore paper, and a smaller duplicate (sometimes redrawn by hand) was hand-colored with watercolors. The first is a vintage version of Buck Rogers as he appeared in the original comic strip. The beautiful and strong-willed Wilma Deering was portrayed by Adele Ronson, and the brilliant scientist-inventor Dr. Huer was played by Edgar Stehli. By the time he is revived, he finds himself in the 25th century. Initially broadcast as a 15-minute show on CBS from 7 November 1932, it was on a Monday through Thursday schedule. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (radio series), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series), Heart of a Gangsta, Mind of a Hustla, Tongue of a Pimp, "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Gold Key)", "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Whitman)", Dynamite Debuts Buck Rogers for a Quarter, Back to the Future: Barrucci and Beatty on Buck Rogers, Drawing the Future: Carlos Rafael on Buck Rogers, "Exclusive Buck Rogers Graphic Novel Available in May Previews", "Big Little Books and Better Little Books: 19321949", "The Legal Battle to Bring Buck Rogers to the Big Screen", "Brian K. Vaughan to Write Buck Rogers TV Series for Legendary", "George Clooney to Produce, Star in 'Buck Rogers' TV Reboot for Legendary", "Mimosa 28, pages 102-107. Plus de 300 pages de bonheur archologique ! Buck Rogers (1964 Gold Key) #1 Published Oct 1964 by Gold Key . Free shipping for many products! Ardala appeared (played by Pamela Hensley), as a Draconian princess supervising her father's armies, with Kane (played by Henry Silva in the film; by Michael Ansara in the series) as her enforcer, a gender reversal of the original characters where Ardala was Killer Kane's sidekick. The program was later rescheduled to Tuesday at 7 p.m., where it ran against the popular Texaco Star Theatre hosted by Milton Berle. She would read the books while riding her new bike on the way home from the library. The year is 1987 when space explorer Captain Buck Rogers and his Ranger 3 got unexpectedly diverted and Buck was frozen for five whole centuries.