“I was 20 years old when they stopped the world war and mustered me out of the air service. I got a job surveying the lower levels of an abandoned mine near Pittsburgh, in which the atmosphere had a peculiar pungent tang and the crumbling rock glowed strangely. I was examining it when suddenly the roof behind me caved in and …” Buck is rendered unconscious, and a strange gas preserves him in a suspended animation or coma state. He awakens and emerges from the mine in 2429 AD, in the midst of another war.
Creators/Key Contributors Dick Calkins, Philip Francis Nowlan
First Appearance Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D. (January 7, 1929)
First Publisher Whitman Publishing Company
Appearance List Newspaper Strip: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D. (January 7, 1929 to July 8, 1967). Pulps: “Armageddon 2419 A.D.” in Amazing Stories (August 1928), “The Airlords of Han” in Amazing Stories (March 1929). Comics: Famous Funnies #4-5, 7-18, 20-26, 28-29, 31-33, 35, 40, 42-43, 47, 49-51, 54-60, 64, 68-69, 73-74,76-77, 85, 91, 100, 103-104, 109, 113, 135, 144, 147, 173, 181-182, 209, 211-212, 214-215, 217-218, Vicks Comics #1-2, Buck Rogers #1-6 (Eastern Color), Buck Rogers #9, 100-101 (Toby).
Sample Read Buck Rogers Sunday Story “Golden Princess of Mars” (1930) [Internet Archive]
Description “I was 20 years old when they stopped the world war and mustered me out of the air service. I got a job surveying the lower levels of an abandoned mine near Pittsburgh, in which the atmosphere had a peculiar pungent tang and the crumbling rock glowed strangely. I was examining it when suddenly the roof behind me caved in and …” Buck is rendered unconscious, and a strange gas preserves him in a suspended animation or coma state. He awakens and emerges from the mine in 2429 AD, in the midst of another war.
