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| Oddly enough, this cover to Amazing Stories for August 1928 depicts not “Buck Rogers” but rather E. E. “Doc” Smith's The Skylark of Space. |
I was a huge fan of the “original”
Buck Rogers as a child, my parents having given me a huge
coffee-table sized collection of almost random comic strips, both
dailies and Sundays, The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the
25th Century (1969) 'round about 1970 or
so. It was without a doubt the very first collected comic material
that I ever owned. And I loved it, spent many glorious hours reading
and rereading it, until the big, heavy door-stop of a book (which I still have)
nearly fell to pieces. (The first few years of the dailies are
available here.)
