17 Facts About Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers is a science fiction adventure hero and feature comic strip created by Philip Francis Nowlan first appearing in daily US 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 has been credited with bringing into popular media the concept of space exploration, following in the footsteps of literary pioneers such as Jules Verne and H G Wells.

At its peak in 1934, Buck Rogers appeared in 287 US newspapers, was translated into 18 languages, and appeared in an additional 160 international papers.

Buck Rogers is rendered unconscious, and a strange gas preserves him in a suspended animation or coma state.

Buck Rogers then explains how the Mongol Reds emerged from the Gobi desert to conquer Asia and Europe and then attacked America starting with that "big idol holding a torch".

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Hostile species Buck Rogers met included the Tiger Men of Mars, the dwarf-like Asterites of the Asteroid belt, and giant robots called Mekkanos.

Buck Rogers appeared in 69 issues of the 1930s comic Famous Funnies, then two appearances in Vicks Comics, both published by Eastern Color Printing.

The characters featured include Buck Rogers, Wilma Deering, Dr Huer, Killer Kane, Ardala, King Grallo of the Martian Tiger Men, and robots.

In 1979, Buck Rogers was revived and updated for a prime-time television series for NBC Television.

New characters added for the series included a comical robot named Twiki, who becomes Buck Rogers's personal assistant, and Dr Theopolis, a sentient computer that Twiki often carries around.

In 2015, the producer Don Murphy announced that he was developing a Buck Rogers film based on the novella Armageddon 2419 AD, however this conflicted with the Dille Family Trust, which claimed to hold the rights of the franchise.

Many of the later appearances of Buck Rogers departed widely from the original circumstances of the Han-dominated America and the hero from the past helping overturn that domination; Rogers in his numerous later incarnations was given various other past careers which did not include the Han.

The first sequel begins c 2476 AD, when a widowed and cantankerous 86-year-old Anthony Rogers is mysteriously rejuvenated during a resurgence of the presumed-extinct Han, now called the Pr'lan.

In 1936, a line of Buck Rogers painted lead metal toy soldier three-inch figures were made for the British market.

Buck Rogers's name has become proverbial in such expressions as "Buck Rogers outfit" for a protective suit that looks like a space suit.

Buck Rogers appellation has become a particularly descriptive term for vertical landings of spaceships, which was the predominant mode of rocket landing envisioned in the pre-spaceflight era at the time Buck Rogers made his original appearance.

Buck Rogers is heavily referenced in the 2006 two-episode arc of the animated television series South Park, "Go God Go" and "Go God Go XII".