rdfs:comment | - Buckingham Rogers was a patron at Mary's Place who arrived one night with a guitar case full of $100 bills which he, with the assistance of the patrons, folded into paper airplanes and threw into the fireplace to combat inflation.
- Buck Rogers is published by Dynamite Entertainment. Price per issue is $3.50.
- Buck Rogers was a character in the eponymous science fiction series in the 20th century. As a child, James Wainwright was an avid reader of the Buck Rogers stories as well as those featuring Captain Proton and Flash Gordon. (TOS - Strange New Worlds III short story: "The Aliens Are Coming!"; TOS novel: From History's Shadow)
- An adventure series about a modern man (mining engineer in the 1920s, astronaut in The Seventies) who is put in suspended animation, wakes up in the 25th century, and then spends his time as a hero in space. For the 1970's TV series, go to Buck Rogers in The 25th Century.
- 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. A sequel, The Airlords of Han, was published in the March 1929 issue. The adventures of Buck Rogers in comic strips, movies, radio and television became an important part of American Popular culture. This pop phenomenon paralleled the development of space technology in the 20th century and introduced Americans to outer space as a familiar environment for swashbuckling adventure.
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abstract | - Buck Rogers was a character in the eponymous science fiction series in the 20th century. As a child, James Wainwright was an avid reader of the Buck Rogers stories as well as those featuring Captain Proton and Flash Gordon. (TOS - Strange New Worlds III short story: "The Aliens Are Coming!"; TOS novel: From History's Shadow) When, in 2375, Vic Fontaine and Ezri Dax were discussing Ezri's joining to the Dax symbiont, Vic referenced Buck Rogers along with Flash Gordon, atomic rays and rocket ships as the sort of 24th century technobable he didn't understand, confusing Ezri just as much in the process with the entirely 20th century futuristic science fiction references. (DS9 - The Lives of Dax short story: "Second Star to the Right...")
- Buckingham Rogers was a patron at Mary's Place who arrived one night with a guitar case full of $100 bills which he, with the assistance of the patrons, folded into paper airplanes and threw into the fireplace to combat inflation.
- 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. A sequel, The Airlords of Han, was published in the March 1929 issue. Philip Nowlan and the syndicate John F. Dille Company, later known as the National Newspaper Syndicate, contracted to adapt the story into a comic strip. After 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 included a serial film, a television series (where his first name was changed from Anthony to William), and other formats. The adventures of Buck Rogers in comic strips, movies, radio and television became an important part of American Popular culture. This pop phenomenon paralleled the development of space technology in the 20th century and introduced Americans to outer space as a familiar environment for swashbuckling adventure. Buck Rogers has been credited with bringing into popular media the concept of space exploration, following in the footsteps of literary pioneers such as Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
- Buck Rogers is published by Dynamite Entertainment. Price per issue is $3.50.
- An adventure series about a modern man (mining engineer in the 1920s, astronaut in The Seventies) who is put in suspended animation, wakes up in the 25th century, and then spends his time as a hero in space. Has been seen in various media-- Pulp Magazine, Comic Book and comic strips, film serials, role-playing games, video games, radio, movie and TV series (Mmmm, Erin Gray in spandex) all stemming from the popular 1928 novel Armageddon 2419 A.D. about a time-travelling mining engineer named Anthony Rogers by Philip Francis Nowlan. John F. Dille, the head of National Newspaper Service, convinced Nowlan to turn his novel into a daily newspaper comic strip (changing the lead character's name to "Buck" in the process) and the rest, as they say, is history. For the 1970's TV series, go to Buck Rogers in The 25th Century.
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