'Buck Rogers' Returns To Comics

With the release of 'John Carter' last year and news of Doc Savage returning to the screen, could it be that the pulp heroes are making a comeback?! As it happens, I'm currently reading 'Armageddon 2419 AD' by Philip F Nowlan, the novel that first appeared in the August 1928 edition of pulp sci-fi magazine 'Amazing Stories' that introduced Tony Rogers to the world, who was later renamed 'Buck Rogers' when the classic newspaper comic strips debuted a year later.

It's been announced that this August, Hermes Press (who have been reprinting the classic comic strips) will be publishing a brand new four-issue series, 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century', that returns Buck Rogers to his original roots, with the art and stories by legendary comic artist Howard Chaykin.

Howard Chaykin’s revival of the first, best, and original sci-fi hero returns in August with an all-new four book story-line.

Before Star Trek and Star Wars, Buck Rogers captivated audiences around the world and made science fiction a national obsession. Now, over eighty years after the creation of the newspaper strip that became a household word, Howard Chaykin has returned the character and his universe back to basics: Buck Rogers, former World War I ace is accidentally suspended in time only to awaken to a new and different earth, 500 years in the future, fragmented by war and ruled by an omnipotent force— the Chinese. Now, Buck along with Colonel Wilma Deering, begin a new fight, to free the United States!

Chaykin’s long anticipated revival of science-fiction’s most archetypal character will hit comic stores in August with Issue #1.

Check out the cover for the first issue by Howard Chaykin below.