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NotesAug 1928 And Mar 1929 Buck Rogers first appeared in the pulp magazine Amazing Stories in Aug 1928 (Armageddon - 2419 AD). The sequel (Airlords of the Hun) appeared in Amazing Stories in Mar 1929. Buck Rogers was referred to as Anthony Rogers in these stories. The stories were written by Philip Francis Nowlan. Philip Nowlan and the syndicate John F. Dille Company (later known as the National Newspaper Syndicate), were contracted to adapt the story into a newspaper comic strip. Nowlan and Dille enlisted editorial cartoonist Dick Calkins as the illustrator. Nowlan adapted the first episode from Armageddon - 2419, A.D. and changed the hero's name from Anthony Rogers to Buck Rogers. The strip made its first newspaper appearance on January 7, 1929. Later adaptations of Buck Rogers included a serial film (starring Buster Crabbe), a radio series, two television series, and a movie.
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   By Vitalino araujo
no more about Buck Rogers?
   By pfmullerIII
Thanks to Jim Thorpe for posting this great compilation! The man in the red jumpsuit on the cover of the August 1928 Amazing is often misidentified as Buck Rogers. Though Rogers did indeed first appear in this issue, the wonderful Frank R. Paul cover illustration is of E. E. Smith's The Skylark of Space, and the flying guy is Richard Ballinger Seaton.
   By moonled
I wonder how many readers know that that AMAZING STORIES August 1928 cover does not depict the Buck Rogers story, but rather EE Smith's "The Skylark of Space". Two enduring classics debuted in that issue.
   By positronic1
What is up with that weird page numbering? Did they really just keep adding to the page count with every subsequent issue of AMAZING STORIES so that by the time they got to the "Airlords of Han" issue, it was up to 1100-something pages?
   By positronic1
It's easy to see how the cover illustration for this issue became mis-identified as being Buck Rogers. In the early Buck Rogers comic strip, Buck used a 'jumping belt' or pack made of an antigravity substance called "inertron" -- propulsive power was supplied by the wearer's own legs. A further development (mentioned in the story "Armageddon 2419 AD") led to small rocket motors encased in inertron blocks. Much later in the BUCK ROGERS comic strip the anti-grav 'inertron belt' gave way to the more familiar-looking personal rocket pack, and "inertron" was seldom mentioned any more. As for Philip Francis Nowlan, after writing 4 more science fiction prose stories for the pulp magazines, he died in February 1940 at the relatively young age of 51. Apparently his only other prose story featuring Buck Rogers after "The Airlords of Han" was the 1934 Whitman "Big Big Book" THE ADVENTURES OF BUCK ROGERS (so titled on the cover -- on the interior title page the title is given as "The Story of Buck Rogers on the Planetoid Eros"). Similar in format but larger in size than the more familiar Big Little Books, the 356-page hardcover (picture boards, no dust jacket) book contained "over 150 pictures suitable for coloring" (credited to Dick Calkins) in addition to Nowlan's text. For the record, the original contents page of Amazing Stories (August, 1928) Vol. 3, No. 5 describes the cover illustration thusly: "Our cover this month depicts a scene from the first installment in this issue of the story entitled THE SKYLARK OF SPACE, by Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby, in which the scientist, who has discovered a chemical substance for the liberation of intra-atomic energy, is making his initial tests, preparatory to his interstellar flight by means of this liberated energy, which makes possible his interstellar space-flyer." The scientist mentioned and depicted by Frank R. Paul here is Richard Seaton, hero of the novel.
  
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