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An adventure series about a modern man (mining engineer in the 1920s, astronaut in [[The Seventies]]) who is accidentally put into suspended animation, wakes up in the 25th century, and then spends his time as a hero in space.
Over the years it has been seen in various media -- [[Pulp Magazine]], [[Comic Book]] and comic strips, film serials, role-playing games, video games, [[Buck Rogers in the 25th Century|radio, movie and TV series]] (mmmm, Erin Gray in spandex). Ultimately, these all stem from the popular 1928 novel ''[[Armageddon 2419 A.D.]]'' by Philip Francis Nowlan, about a time-travelling mining engineer named Anthony Rogers. John F. Dille, the head of National Newspaper Service, convinced Nowlan to turn his novel into a daily newspaper comic strip (changing the lead character's name to "Buck" in the process) and the rest, as they say, is history.
For the 1970s TV series, see ''[[Buck Rogers in the 25th Century]]''.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Wilma Deering
* [[Alternate Continuity]]: Unlike his comic page contemporary ''[[Flash Gordon (comic strip)|Flash Gordon]]'', who tends to stay visually recognizable in most incarnations, Buck and his world have undergone major overhauls in almost every updated version, starting with the Disco-era aesthetic in the 1970s TV series, through TSR's hard s.f. "XXVc" role-playing game setting, to the [[Tron Lines]] outfits in the current comic book by Dynamite Entertainment. TSR averted this with the "Cliffhangers" version of the RPG, which was very faithful to the original comic -- perhaps to a fault, since it started at the [[Canon Discontinuity|mostly forgotten]], [[Yellow Peril|politically incorrect]] ''[[Early Installment Weirdness|beginning]]'' of the comic's timeline, before the iconic space opera elements had even been introduced.
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