Buck Rogers #0-12 (of 12)

Dynamite Entertainment reinvents the original fictional of Philip Nowlan, of John Flint Dille's comic strip and of the various character iterations in various media through the years, notably the TV series, but still keeping it attached to a thread of commonality with all these versions. Issue #0 starts at the end of a story arc--or a storyline--serving as a teaser to the subsequent intro in #1. After the initial five-part story arc entitled "Future Shock", issue #6, entitled "Never Mind What You Leave Behind" was a standalone, an epilogue to the initial story arc that is a sort of a taking stock by Buck Rogers of his new world. Issue #7-8 make up the two-part story arc, "The Space Beneath"; Issues 9-10 the two-part story arc "Friends in High Places"; and finally issues #11-12 another two-part story arc, "Moonstruck." It is as yet undetermined if there will be an issue #13--the solicitation for issue #12 does state all in caps "The Grand Finale to the Series!!" Dynamite has been reticent as to the status of this series. Anyway all 13 issues (0-12) are included in this compilation, all in high quality Minutemen scans.

Buck Rogers first appeared as Anthony Rogers in a novella titled Armageddon 2419 A.D by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories, the first magazine devoted to what was then called “scientifiction.” In that story Rogers, a former United States Army Air Corps officer falls into a coma after exposure to a leaking gas in a collapsed mine and awakens in the 25th Century, from there daring-do ensues. A little less than a year later Nowlan’s story was picked to be the basis for one of the first science fiction newspaper strips, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. It would not be long before he started showing up in other media such as films, radio, and comic books, a frequent feature of one of the first comic books, Famous Funnies, where Buck would be a star in the first three and last two years of that publications life. There have been many other comics that have featured Buck from a number of publishers since then, with the latest one coming from Dynamite Entertainment. --

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