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:
  • 1929 to 1933 – Zack Mosley
  • 1938 to 1942 – Leonard Dworkins
  • 1951 to 1956 – Leonard Dworkins
  • 1954 to 1955 – Dick Locher

    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:
  • Mar 1930 to Sep 1933 – Russell Keaton, Philip Nowlan
  • Oct 1933 to Apr 1937 – Rick Yager, Philip Nowlan
  • May 1937 to June 1958 – Rick Yager, Rick Yager
  • July 1958 to Apr 1959 – Murphy Anderson, ???
  • Apr 1959 to Apr 1960 – George Tuska, Jack Lehti
  • Apr 1960 to Feb 1961 – George Tuska, Howard Liss
  • Feb 1961 to May 1961 – George Tuska, Ray Russell
  • May 1961 to Dec 1961 – George Tuska, Fritz Lieber
  • Dec 1961 to Jun 1965 – George Tuska, Howard Liss
Art Assistants:
  • 1951 to 1956 – Leonard Dworkins
  • 1957 to 1958 – William Juhre