List of Buck Rogers comic strips


Listing of the publication history for the Buck Rogers comic strip.
The history of the Buck Rogers comic strip is a complicated one. The early strips were numbered rather than dated, and every so often the numbering was restarted, creating a new strip numbering "series". To add to the complexity, different newspapers ran the strips on different days – sometimes several months apart from each other. Below is a very detailed story guide to all of the Buck Rogers comics strips, complete with story titles, dates, strips numbers, artist/writer information and a large number of detailed notes addressing the "eccentricities" of the strip.

Original series daily comic strip stories

  • D001 – "Meeting the Mongols" ,
  • D002 – "Capturing the Mongol Emperor" '
  • D003 – "Pact of Perpetual Peace"
  • D004 – "Defeat of the Mongol Rebels"
  • D005 – "Tiger Men of Mars" - First space story.
  • D006 – "Land of the Golden People"
  • D007 – "Synthetic Gold Plot"
  • D008 – "In the City Below the Sea"
  • D009 – "Mystery of the Atlantian Gold Ships"
  • D010 – "On the Planetoid Eros"
  • D011 – "On the Moons of Saturn"
  • D012 – "Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet"
  • D013 – "Asterite Invaders"
  • D014 – "The Great Wolves of Jupiter"
  • D015 – "In the City of Floating Globes"
  • D016 – "Depth Men of Jupiter"
  • D017 – "Tika of the Tidegates"
  • D018 – "Doom Comet"
  • D019 – "Rebuilding the World"
  • D020 – "Planetoid Plot"
  • D021 – "Rescue of King Innaldo"
  • D022 – "Prisoners on Uranus" '
  • D023 – "Liquid Light" ,
  • D024 – "Mummies of Ceres"
  • D025 – "Palladian Space Pirates" '
  • D026 – "Princess Elthana of Venus Visits Earth"
  • D027 – "Interplanetary War With Venus"
  • D028 – "Wokkie and the Novans"
  • D029 – "The Fiend of Space"
  • D030 – "Overturned World"
  • D031 – "Martian War Threat"
  • D032 – "The Super-Dwarf of Space"
  • D033 – "Forgotten Earth Colony"
  • D034 – "Thrown Back 500 Years" '
  • D035 – "Goddess of Stygia" '
  • D036 – "Martians Invade Jupiter" '
  • D037 – "Mechanical Bloodhound"
  • D038 – "Monkeymen of Planet X" '
  • D039 – "Hollow Planetoid"
  • D040 – "Plastic Percy"
  • D041 – "Planets, Incorporated" '
  • D042 – "Explosive Light"
  • D043 – "Time Retracto Swindle"
  • D044 – "Brain Ray Threat"
  • D045 – "Kane's Double vs. the Atomites" ,
  • D046 – "Wanted For Murder"
  • D047 – "Dr. Modar of Saturn" '
  • D048 – "Lost Planet of Thor" ,
  • D049 – "Vulcan Trouble-Shooter" ,,,
  • D050 – "Capsule-Men"
  • D051 – "Asteroid "Z""
  • D052 – "Stolen Space Fortress" '
  • D053 – "Operation Survival" '
  • D054 – "Operation Vanish"
  • D055 – "Octopus of Space"
  • D056 – "Dogfight on the Moon"
  • D057 – "Rocketship Graveyard"
  • D058 – "Space Tide" '
  • D059 – "Arctic Bubble Men"
  • D060 – "X-Ten" '
  • D061 – "Great Tog Mystery"
  • D062 – "Black Swan's Volcano Protection"
  • D063 – "Pleiadite War Machine"
  • D064 – "Star of Mars"
  • D065 – "Abduction of Princess Elthana"
  • D066 – "Death Sphere"
  • D067 – "Eternal Youth"
  • D068 – "Hydro-X Bomb Threat"
  • D069 – "Trouble at the Great Moon Fair"
  • D070 – "Threat to the Space Mirror"
  • D071 – "Rebels of Uras" '
  • D072 – "Stolen Zero-Bomb Formula"
  • D073 – "Greetings to Earth From Elektrum"
  • D074 – "Revolt of the Dwarf Princess"
  • D075 – "Caltechium Heist"
  • D076 – "Episode on Starrock"
  • D077 – "Miss Solar System Beauty Pageant" '
  • D078 – "Mysticus Metallicus"
  • D079 – "Defective Super Alloy"
  • D080 – "Missing Scientists"
  • D081 – "Poison Epidemic"
  • D082 – "Planetary Peace Brigade"
  • D083 – "Undersea Station"
  • D084 – "Advertising Scheme"
  • D085 – "Mind Reader"
  • D086 – "Operation Crop Failure" '
  • D087 – "Penal Asteroid"
  • D088 – "Million-Dollar Crooner"
  • D089 – "Bullet of Light"
  • D090 – "Space Junk"
  • D091 – "Martian Trojan Horse"
  • D092 – "Project Baby Boy"
  • D093 – "Venusian Jury Duty"
  • D094 – "Blackmail Decoy"
  • D095 – "Tactical Exercises"
  • D096 – "Poisoned Food Shipment"
  • D097 – "Space Gypsies"
  • D098 – "Space Race Treachery"
  • D099 – "False Reputation"
  • D100 – "Broken Cease-Fire"
  • D101 – "Fashion Pirates"
  • D102 – "Visitors From Ophiuchus"
  • D103 – "Reunion on Titan"
  • D104 – "Cosmic Fever"
  • D105 – "Underground Menace"
  • D106 – "The Land of Goldie Silver"
Notes:General – The term "series" refers to a new numbering sequence and are differentiated using Roman numerals. The dates used for strips that contained only strip numbers are the dates these strips ran in most newspapers. Some newspapers ran the strips several months behind. At different points in the strip's run "extra" individual strips or week of strips were run that ran in a limited number of papers. In some cases, entire "series" of strips were dropped by papers in order to synch up with the rest.' – Of the first 17 strips, 12 have two versions and 5 have three versions. There are also two versions of at least 13 later strips and three versions of one other strip.
  • ' – Strip numbers 29 and 30 have their strip numbers transposed' – There was an "extra" strip between 155 and 156 that ran in some newspapers as an introductory strip to the new story
  • ' – Strip number 455 was misnumbered as 355' – Strip numbers 637A and 638A appear between 636 and 637
  • ' – Strip numbers 641 and 642 are skipped ' – Strip numbers 229 to 234 are misumbered as 129 to 134
  • ' – Strip number 383 was misnumbered as 283' – Strip numbers 175 to 180 were "extra" strips that did not run in all papers
  • ' – Strip numbers 292 and 293 have their numbers transposed' – Strip number 73-A was an "extra" strip that ran in some newspapers as an introductory strip
  • ' – Strip numbers 187 to 192 were "extra" strips that did not run in all papers' – The 1/1/48 strip was a special New year's Day message
  • ' – The 12/25/48 strip was a special Christmas message ' – The 1/1/49 strip was a special New year's Day message
  • ' – The strips from 5/22/50 to 5/27/50 were misdated one day early' – The 12/25/50 strip was a special Christmas message
  • ' – The 1/1/51 strip was a special New year's Day message ' – The strips from 10/22/51 to 11/24/51 contained strip numbers rather than dates
  • ' – The daily and Sunday strip began running the same storyline with this story' – The daily strip once again began running the stories independent of the Sunday strip with this story
  • ' – The 5/10/63 strip was misdated as 6/10/63
Five of the daily stories contained multiple sub-plots that are broken out as follows:' – D025 – "Palladian Space Pirates":
  • *Part 1 – "Escape From Ceres"
  • *Part 2 – "Mission to Pallas"
  • *Part 3 – "Interplanetary War"
  • ' – D036 – "Martians Invade Jupiter":
  • *Part 1 – "Behind Martian Lines"
  • *Part 2 – "Capture of Madwolf Hetlah" ' – D049 – "Vulcan Trouble-Shooter":
  • *Part 1 – "The Founding of Port Buck Rogers"
  • *Part 2 – "Invasion of the Zot Mogs"
  • ' – D053 – "Operation Survival":
  • *Part 1 – "Plot to Seize Washington"
  • *Part 2 – "Mysterious Death-Cloud"
  • *Part 3 – "The Red Robes" ' – D058 – "Space Tide":
  • *Part 1 – "The Quadri-Thrust"
  • *Part 2 – "Maid of Mercury"
  • *Part 3 – "Black Swan and Cygnet"
  • ' – D060 – "X-Ten":
  • *Part 1 – "Escape From the Amazon"
  • *Part 2 – "Baby Genius"
Artist/Writer credits:
Art Assistants:

Original series Sunday comic strip stories

  • S01 – "Golden Princess of Mars"
  • S02 – "Fish Men of Planet ‘X’"
  • S03 – "Mysterious Saturnian"
  • S04 – "Marooned on Venus"
  • S05 – "Land of Mystery"
  • S06 – "Prisoners of Alpha Centaurians"
  • S07 – "Attacked by Mercurians"
  • S08 – "Remaking Ancient Aster"
  • S09 – "Locket of Madness"
  • S10 – "Prophet of the Fire Demon"
  • S11 – "Enslaving the Giants"
  • S12 – "Amazons of Venus"
  • S13 – "Strange Adventures in the Spider Ship"
  • S14 – "Mekkanos of Planet Vulcan" '
  • S15 – "Exploring the Water Moon of Mercury"
  • S16 – "Fleeing the Long Night"
  • S17 – "Masked Sky Pirates"
  • S18 – "Menace of Mura"
  • S19 – "Invaders From a Dying World"
  • S20 – "The Mind of Minds"
  • S21 – "Wilma to the Rescue"
  • S22 – "War With Venus" '
  • S23 – "Mysterious New World"
  • S24 – "Secret City of Mechanical Men"
  • S25 – "Earth Shifts on Axis"
  • S26 – "Martian Invasion of Earth" '
  • S27 – "N.E.L.D.A. "
  • S28 – "The Four Powers of Doomar" ,
  • S29 – "Planet of the Rising Sun" ,,
  • S30 – "Parchment of the Golden Crescent" '
  • S31 – "Misadventures of Admiral Cornplaster" '
  • S32 – "Battle on the Moon" ,
  • S33 – "Escape from the Martian Fortress"
  • S34 – "Venusian Vaporizing Mystery"
  • S35 – "The Eye of the Universe"
  • S36 – "Invasion of the Green Ray Smackers"
  • S37 – "Martian Undersea Threat"
  • S38 – "The Treasure of Benito"
  • S39 – "Mystery Planet"
  • S40 – "The Space Hermit"
  • S41 – "Great Za"
  • S42 – "Cadet's First Flight" '
  • S43 – "Hidden Martian Moon Base"
  • S44 – "Space Pirates"
  • S45 – "Trespassing on Incuba"
  • S46 – "Immorta Vapor"
  • S47 – "Plot to Steal Squadron X-99"
  • S48 – "Returning the Sacred Pearls"
  • S49 – "Prisoner of Zopar"
  • S50 – "Brand O' Mars" '
  • S51 – "The Invisible Martian"
  • S52 – "Mad Meteors"
  • S53 – "Land of the Sleeping Giant"
  • S54 – "Moment-Zero on Videa"
  • S55 – "Operation Moon-Pull"
  • S56 – "Search For Impervium"
  • S57 – "Supernova Threat"
  • S58 – "California Earthquake Plot"
  • S59 – "Rebels of Uras" '
  • S60 – "Stolen Zero-Bomb Formula"
  • S61 – "Greetings to Earth From Elektrum"
  • S62 – "Revolt of the Dwarf Princess"
  • S63 – "Caltechium Heist"
  • S64 – "Episode on Starrock"
  • S65 – "Shape Changing Elixir" '
  • S66 – "Water Polo Caper"
  • S67 – "Greatest Gourmet on Tour"
  • S68 – "The Richest Man in the Universe"
  • S69 – "Security Risk!"
  • S70 – "Googie and Carol"
  • S71 – "Space Survival Kit"
  • S72 – "Huk's Hostage"
  • S73 – "The Old Toymaker"
  • S74 – "Heart Central"
  • S75 – "Exploring Transient-101"
  • S76 – "Human Chess"
  • S77 – "Interplanetary Olympic Games"
  • S78 – "Slippery Circus Clown"
  • S79 – "Alfie the Inventive Genius"
  • S80 – "A New Brain"
  • S81 – "Big Game Hunt"
Notes: General – The term "series" refers to a new numbering sequence and are differentiated using Roman numerals. The dates used for strips that contained only strip numbers are the dates these strips ran in most newspapers. Some newspapers ran the strips several months behind. At two points in the strip's run "extra" individual strips were run that ran in a limited number of papers.
  • ' – Beginning with strip number 243, a one-tier "sub-strip" was included at the bottom of the Sunday page in some papers that ran the strip in a tabloid format. They contained a storyline independent of the story in the main Sunday strip.' – The sub-strip was dropped after Sunday strip number 380 with the final storyline left unresolved.
  • ' – The last full-page format Sunday was strip number 578 ' – There was an un-numbered "extra" strip between strip numbers 54 and 55 that did not run in all papers
  • ' – Strip number 10½ was an "extra" strip between strip numbers 110 and 111 that did not run in all papers' – Strip number 314 was misnumbered 214
  • ' – The third strip numbering series began with number 100' – The strip that should have been numbered 296 contains no strip number
  • ' – The Sunday and daily strip began running the same storyline with this story' – The Sunday strip once again began running the stories independent of the daily strip with this story
Six of the Sunday stories by Rick Yager contained multiple sub-plots that are broken out as follows:
  • ' – S26 – Martian Invasion of Earth:
  • *Part 1 – "Captured by Tigermen"
  • *Part 2 – "The Island of Doom"
  • *Part 3 – "Flight of the Ghost Ship"
  • *Part 4 – "The Red Ray" ' – S28 – The Four Powers of Doomar:
  • *Part 1 – "Hydro"
  • *Part 2 – "Scorpia"
  • *Part 3 – "Arcto"
  • *Part 4 – "Hexxo"
  • ' – S29 – Planet of the Rising Sun:
  • *Part 1 – "Through the Door of No Return"
  • *Part 2 – "The Mission of 99-Zero"
  • *Part 3 – "Marooned on the Planet of the Rising Sun"
  • *Part 4 – "Arrival of the Mysterious Sky Wizard" ' – S30 – Parchment of the Golden Crescent:
  • *Part 1 – "Enslaved in Niarb's Mind Foundry"
  • *Part 2 – "Treasure Hunting on Llore"
  • ' – S31 – Misadventures of Admiral Cornplaster:
  • *Part 1 – "Voyage of the Golden Spaceship El Dorado"
  • *Part 2 – "Trapped on Tantoris"
  • *Part 3 – "The Terrible Creations of Dr. Nameless" – S32 – Battle on the Moon:
  • *Part 1 – "Moon Song's Misfortune"
  • *Part 2 – "The Ring and Arrow Boys"
  • *Part 3 – "Enter Commodore Pounce"
  • *Part 4 – "Dogfight for the Uranium Fields"
Artist/Writer credits:
Art Assistants:

Original series Sunday "Sub-Strip" story guide

  • SS01 – "Adventures of Wilma"
  • SS02 – "Captain Spear of the Martian Patrol"
  • SS03 – "Peril Planet"
  • SS04 – "Lost in Space"
  • SS05 – "The Flat Planet of Hex"
  • SS06 – "The Ghost Planet"
  • SS07 – "Black Barney on Earth"
  • SS08 – "The Wizard of Zoor"
  • SS09 – "Oghpore the Terrible"
  • SS10 – "’Buzz’ Brent Calling C-Q" '
Notes:General – The term "series" refers to a new numbering sequence and are differentiated using Roman numerals. The dates used for strips that contained only strip numbers are the dates these strips ran in most newspapers. Some newspapers ran the strips several months behind. The sub-strip only appeared in tabloid format papers.
  • ' – The sub-strip was dropped after Sunday strip number 380 with the final storyline left unresolved. Three fan-produced strips written by Eugene Seger and drawn by Bud Gordinier were created in 2001 to finish the story.
Artist/Writer credits:

Revival Series comic strip stories

  • R01 – "On the Moon of Madness!" '
  • R02 – "Space Vampire"
  • R03 – "Mutant Zone"
  • R04 – "Vostrian Crisis"
  • R05 – "The Faceless Kid"
  • R06 – "Ultra-Time-Warp"
  • R07 – "Mist-Creatures"
  • R08 – "Project Edon"
  • R09 – "Mystery Woman From the Black Hole"
  • R10 – "Runaway Planetoid"
  • R11 – "Pyramid Mystery" '
  • R12 – "Miners' Madness"
  • R13 – "Down Memory Lane"
  • R14 – "Welcome to Atlantis"
  • R15 – "Alien Stowaway"
  • R16 – "Space Convicts"
  • R17 – "Robot Revolution"
  • R18 – "Deadly Contest"
  • R19 – "The Gauntlet"
  • R20 – "Pursuit of Vurik"
  • R21 – "The Duplicate"
Notes:General – The daily and Sunday strips ran one continuous storyline' – Appeared in Heavy Metal Magazine
  • ' – Beginning with the 9/20/81 Sunday page, the panels in the upper tier contained an educational science series separate from the storyline which was restricted to the panels in the bottom two tiers.
Artist/Writer credits:
Neal Adams filled in as artist in April, 1981.

''Look-In'' magazine (UK) comic strip stories

  • LI01 – "The Praxonian Conquest"
  • LI02 – "The Re-Integration Bombarder"
  • LI03 – "Robot Revolution"
  • LI04 – "The Evil Collector"
  • LI05 – "Sweet Dreams?" '
  • LI06 – "Farnn the Invincible"
  • LI07 – "The Oxygen Oceans of Anubis"
  • LI08 – "Interplanetary Civil War"
  • LI09 – "Stinnkex the Genie"
  • LI10 – "Visitor From the Future"
Notes:General – Each issue of Look-In Magazine contained a two-page Buck Rogers comic strip. Issue numbers restarted at number 1 with the first issue of each year and ran to number 52 with the last issue of each year. There were, however, occasional exceptions to this such as in 1981 where issue number 1 was actually the December 27, 1980, issue and the final issue in 1981 on December 26 was numbered 53.
  • ' This story was reprinted in an edited black & white format in the 1990 Look-In Annual
Artist/Writer credits:

''TV Tops Magazine'' (UK) comic strip stories

  • TT01 – "Heart of the Black Hole" 48–52
  • TT02 – "Enemy From the Past" 53–55
  • TT03 – "Terrorist From Thul" 56–57
  • TT04 – "Warlord" 58–60
  • TT05 – "The Sun Eater" 66–68 '
  • TT06 – "Golden Death" 69–70
  • TT07 – "The Changelings" 71–73
  • TT08 – "Escape Into the Past"
  • TT09 – "Attack on Outer City" '
  • TT10 – "The Alien Jar" '
  • TT11 – "Ghost Ship" '
  • TT12 – "Robodrone" '
  • TT13 – "Return of Warlord" '
  • TT14 – "The Zoo Keeper" '
  • TT15 – "The Flame Monster"
  • TT16 – "Alien Video Game" '
  • TT17 – "Buck's Evil Twin" '
  • TT18 – "Parallel Dimension"
  • TT19 – "The Space Knight"
  • TT20 – "The Living Trees" '
  • TT21 – "Intergalactic War"
  • TT22 – "The Aging Ray"
  • TT23 – "Overlord"
  • TT24 – "The Ghost Planet"
  • TT25 – "Buck Rogers in the 30th Century"
  • TT26 – "500,000-Year Delay"
Notes:General – Each issue of TV Tops Magazine contained a 2-page Buck Rogers comic strip.' Issue numbers 61–65 did not have Buck Rogers comic strips
  • ' Issue number 77 did not have a Buck Rogers comic strip' Issue numbers 80 and 81 did not have Buck Rogers comic strips
  • ' Issue numbers 84 and 85 did not have Buck Rogers comic strips' Issue number 88 did not have a Buck Rogers comic strip
  • ' The title of the magazine changed from "TV Tops" to "Tops" with issue 90' Issue numbers 91 and 93 did not have a Buck Rogers comic strip
  • ' Issue number 97 did not have a Buck Rogers comic strip' Issue number 101 did not have a Buck Rogers comic strip
  • ' The size of the magazine was reduced beginning with issue 108

Collected editions

Famous Funnies issues #3–190, 209–215 Buck Rogers in the City Below the Sea Buck Rogers on the Moons of Saturn Buck Rogers in the Dangerous Mission, With "Pop-Up" Picture Buck Rogers 25th century A.D. and the Depth Men of Jupiter Buck Rogers in the City of Floating Globes Buck Rogers 25th Century: Strange Adventures in the Spider-Ship with Three Pop-ups The Story of Buck Rogers on the Planetoid Eros Buck Rogers 25th century A.D. vs. the Fiend of Space Buck Rogers #1–6 Buck Rogers and the Super-Dwarf of Space Buck Rogers #100, #101, #9 Buck Rogers volumes 1–5 The Collected Works of Buck Rogers — also published a revised edition in 1977Buck Rogers 1931–32 Buck Rogers, 25th century A.D. Menomonee Falls Gazette #95–126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146 Feature Showcase Buck Rogers #1–52 Classic Adventure Strips #10 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Buck Rogers – The First 60 Years in the 25th Century Cosmic Heroes #1–11 Len’s 1950 Buck Rogers Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Air Strips Magazine #2–4 Buck Rogers Magazine #1–14 The Sunday Buck Rogers #1–5 Buck Rogers: The Sunday Adventures — reprints Sunday Buck Rogers #1–4 "The Rising Sun Planet" story from February 22, 1942, through February 27, 1944Buck Rogers 25th century: Featuring Buddy and Allura in "Strange Adventures in the Spider Ship" Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Complete Newspaper Dailies — series of volumes reprinting the entire original run of daily comic strips from 1929 to 1967 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Complete Newspaper Sundays — series of volumes reprinting the entire original run of Sunday comic strips from 1930 to 1965