In other words, after leading off with a breathless introduction by 1969 Ray Bradbury, my hard copy intersperses strips from 1928 with disorganized chunks of varying lengths from 1931, 1939, 1946, and 1949. This was sufficiently irksome that I went and compared Wikipedia's chronological listing of published strips with this book's table of contents, so I can state precisely that the book I'm reviewing includes only D001-003, D005, D009, D031, and scattered strips taken from D045, D056, and S26 in no discernable order. Unfortunately, this particular compendium offers up only a small portion of the first half of Buck Rogers' reign, and proceeds to deliver it as a collation error, leaving off days, months, and in some cases whole years of content, the entirety out of chronological order. In the forgotten pages of this classic work, readers will find echoes of the Stock Market collapse, the Great Depression (fantasies about gold-hoarding Atlantis dwellers), World War II (with Nazis as ruthless, brutal tigermen of Mars who first threaten war and ultimately commence invasions of Earth-Europe and later Jupiter-Russia Imperial Japan as suicidally treacherous monkeymen from Planet X, their environs littered with era-appropriate "Kilroy was Here" graffiti), and a pre-SALT Cold War nuclear era (lots of espionage and mad-scientific atomic tinkering), to say nothing of the Space Race and whatever equivalents its artist might have had to salute the first humans to walk on the face of the moon. While the work skewed in later years toward the juvenile (especially the Sunday color spreads), over its more than 40-year run the strip represents an attempt to imagine a world 500 years in the future while struggling to keep pace with the protean 20th Century.
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Considered longitudinally, the Buck Rogers serial itself is a treasure trove, a daily newspaper adventure strip in the style of the Perils of Pauline, its eponymous protagonist constantly leaping from frying pan to fire.
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While the work skewed in later years toward the juvenile (especially the Sunday color spreads), over its more than 40-year run the strip represents an Had The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century been anything near complete, this would be a five-star gem of a book. In the second season, Buck has been assigned aboard the Searcher, a starship exploring the unknown reaches of space while searching for former Earth colonies that are scattered across the galaxy.Had The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century been anything near complete, this would be a five-star gem of a book. In 2491, when Buck awakens from the freezing, Earth is recovering from a nuclear war and is coming under hostile attack by the Draconian Empire.
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The combination of gases that freezes him comes close to the formula commonly used in the 25th century for preservation, and his rescuers are able to revive him.
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In 1987, NASA astronaut William “Buck” Rogers is caught in a freak accident in deep space, causing his space shuttle Ranger 3 to be blown into an orbit that returns him to Earth – over 500 years later.