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Show Us Your Buck Rogers
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My only Frazetta Buck Rogers:

 

 

 

Unless you count this:

 

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It should be counted. Maybe you paste the helmut back on Buck.

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I noticed this color version on sale at Heritage. It looks fantastic.

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This is a very underrated cover IMO and one of my favorite books. The Buck Rogers strip was one of the main features in Famous Funnies from its debut in #3 to the end of the run twenty years later, and yet this is the only Buck Rogers cover from early part of the run - he wouldn't appear again until the Frazetta issues fourteen years later. It came out just after Buck Rogers 1 and about the same time as Buck Rogers 2, so its purpose was probably to help plug the new series.

 

 

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The character has sadly slipped out of the pop culture arena since the 1979 T.V. show (which I loved as a kid!). I would love to see a modern take on Buck Rogers that is closer to Philip Nowlan's original stories, but after seeing what the SF channel did to Flash Gordon last year, maybe it's not a good idea.

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Let`s see Buck Rogers,Flash Gordon,Lone Ranger,Shadow and Tarzan at one time were big or bigger than Batman. I wonder why the fell out of the publics imagination and if they will ever become big again?

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