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Show Us Your Buck Rogers
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2 hours ago, Yellow Kid said:

 Years ago, Tony Raiola used to reprint some great comic strips through his Pacific Comics Club.  He did a 52-volume set of Buck Rogers that is oversized and in beautiful color that was a "must" for all Buck Rogers collectors.  A leading collector, Ray Funk, noticed that one volume was missing a few panels and Xeroxed them from his tear sheet collection and gave them to me so I would have a complete collection.  Ray grew up with Buck Rogers and stayed a very devoted fan throughout his life.  He convinced me to buy a set when Tony still had some.  Over the years I see sets on eBay and other sites and each time the price seems to drop so I but another one.  I hope someday they will serve as good trade material.  Ray liked Buck so much that he spent several years on a labor of love, creating a 14-volume set of laminated pages reprinting the strips year by year, and throwing in lots of other things just for fun.  He had each volume bound with a spiral holder so he could enjoy reading the pages in order.  As an example, here is Volume 4 which reprints strips #200 through #251, which are the 1934 strips.  His 14 volumes are one of my treasured collectibles as they were done by an early collector because of his love of the strip.

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And Tony still shows up at our local shows but I never see too many people buying from him which is a shame because this is wonderful material. Back in the early seventies I discovered our County library had a great collection of the strip reprint hardbacks that had been published back then. One of them was a Buck Rogers collection which I quickly devoured. They also had the Gumps, Little Orphan Annie and Popeye. They were all great to read. To round things out the library also had a copy of Seduction of the Innocent which I also read! Great times.

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Those are beautiful, early pages in great condition--sorry you didn't get them.  They remind me of a quote from a great collector.  Malcolm Forbes once said that he didn't regret anything he bought, only some things that he didn't buy.

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On 7/18/2008 at 4:41 PM, Theagenes said:

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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Indeed, love this cover, and it's significance.  Grabbed myself a copy several months ago!  

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Just now, Robot Man said:

And, why not?

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I had a beat up loose one of these at one time. The box is great! Are those two bottom pictures the box side graphics?

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13 minutes ago, MrBedrock said:

I had a beat up loose one of these at one time. The box is great! Are those two bottom pictures the box side graphics?

Yes, side panels. I have seen the guns from time to time. Usually incomplete or broken. This is a marriage. I found the box, then the gun and the instructions turned up somewhere so I grabbed them. Tougher to find this way.

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