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Captain Buck Rogers was an American-born Federation military officer, interplanetary explorer, and adventurer of the 20th and 25th centuries. After serving in the Great War, Rogers found himself working as a surveyor by 1929, when an accident in a mine near Pittsburgh lead to his exposure to radioactive gas that put him to sleep for 500 years. Waking up in 2429, Rogers found himself in a North America colonised and occupied by the Red Mongols. Alongside American Orgzone freedom fighter Wilma Deering, Rogers fought for the freedom of the continent from the Mongols and the treacherous Killer Kane, triumphing after an appeal to the Celestial Mogul in 2430.

Subsequently beginning his career as an interplanetary explorer, Rogers made contact with the Tiger Men of Mars, defeating their invasion plans for Earth by using his rocket to upset the balance of Phobos and cause it to collide with a populated city.

Weapons and Abilities[]

Technology[]

  • Inertron Belt: Built with Inertron, a material with reverse weight. One belt was estimated to reduce Rogers' weight to four or five pounds.[1]
    • Another Inertron Belt reduced Rogers' weight to 10 pounds, allowing Rogers to float on water easily.[2] Walking was exceedingly difficult, because one leg would sink when the other was raised.[3] Two mermaids were easily able to drag him underwater.[4]

Vehicles[]

  • Satellite: Interplanetary rocket ship designed on Rogers' behalf, to rescue Sally Deering and Princess Illana from the Tiger Men of Mars.
    • Firing its engines in the reverse direction of Phobos' orbit slowed the moon enough that it fell out of orbit and collided with Mars.[5][6]

Victims[]

Killed[]

  • Uncertain number of Tiger Men of Mars following the engineered collision of Phobos with Mars[7]

Notes[]

Behind the Scenes[]

Trivia[]

  • Rogers predated Steve Rogers - alias Captain America - by 11 years. The idea of Captain America being frozen in ice and being awoken in the present was only implemented in 1964, 35 years after the concept was used in "Buck Rogers".[9]

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  1. ↑ Falling Upwards - Philip Nowlan & Richard Calkins - 6 February 1929 - Buck Rogers, 2429 A.D. - Worcester Evening Gazette - Retrieved 16 September 2023
  2. ↑ Leaps to Rescue - Philip Nowlan & Richard Calkins - 29 December 1930 - Buck Rogers, 2430 A.D. - Worcester Evening Gazette - Retrieved 14 October 2024
  3. ↑ Dragged Below - Philip Nowlan & Richard Calkins - 30 December 1930 - Buck Rogers, 2430 A.D. - Worcester Evening Gazette - Retrieved 14 October 2024
  4. ↑ Captured by Mermaids - Philip Nowlan & Richard Calkins - 31 December 1930 - Buck Rogers, 2430 A.D. - Worcester Evening Gazette - Retrieved 14 October 2024
  5. ↑ Makes "Bomb" of Moon - Philip Nowlan & Richard Calkins - 13 June 1930 - Buck Rogers, 2430 A.D. - Worcester Evening Gazette - Retrieved 17 September 2023
  6. ↑ Cataclysm Shakes Planet - Philip Nowlan & Richard Calkins - 16 June 1930 - Buck Rogers, 2430 A.D. - Worcester Evening Gazette - Retrieved 17 September 2023
  7. ↑ None of the immediate follow up strips list the death toll; given the level of destruction demonstrated, it was likely quite high.
  8. ↑ Buck Rogers: George Clooney to Exec Produce, Possibly Star in Legendary Series - Jim Vejvoda - 28 January 2021 - IGN - Retrieved 17 September 2023
  9. ↑ One Sci-Fi Movie Series Invented Star Wars, Captain America, and Everything Else - Ryan Britt - 2 February 2024 - Inverse Retrieved 5 March 2024
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