Buck Rogers

This is the Phantom of the loved and venerable Sunday comics strips of old, upgraded for today's audience. It's a Phantom that's darker, meaner, and presented with more than just a tad of graphic violence and eye-popping artwork. A pleasant surprise. Both issues are high quality Minutemen scans, with 4 and 3 variant covers respectively, complete.

is a new ongoing comic book series written by Fabian Nicieza and published by Moonstone. The title character is based on the 1966 Captain Action toy action figure that was the Ideal Toy Company's answer to Hasbro's GI Joe — although the protagonist dolls of both toy lines were created and designed by the same toy- and idea-man, Stan Weston. The action figure was equipped with a wardrobe of costumes allowing him to become Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Aquaman, the Phantom, The Lone Ranger (and Tonto), Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Sgt. Fury, Steve Canyon, and the Green Hornet. DC Comics (then ) acquired the license from Ideal and published five issues of Captain Action in 1968, but, because of the near-impossibility of obtaining licenses for the costume changes, the ability to change into different characters was entirely dropped...