HERMES PRESS TO REPRINT ENTIRE BUCK ROGERS NEWSPAPER RUN

[MattBrady]

Press Release

Hermes Press proudly announces the first volume in its complete series of reprints of Buck Rogers!

BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY: Hardcover with deluxe dustjacket and endpapers; 100 pound matte finish coated stock paper; 336 pages; special 16 page color section with an introduction by cultural historian and sci-fi writer Ron Goulart and documentary materials; first book in a series to present the complete Buck Rogers daily and Sunday strips, 9” x 12” landscape format; 2 years of the strip presented in Volume One, starting with the first strip dated January 7, 1929; ISBN #1-932563-19-9; $39.99; available September 15, 2008.

BUCK ROGERS IS BACK!
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, the first, best, and original science-fiction newspaper strip is back for fall, 2008! Starting in September 2008, Hermes Press will begin a complete reprint of the ground-breaking newspaper strip that got America hooked on Science-Fiction. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century has it all: space ships, anti-gravity belts, space pirates, damsels in distress, invaders from other worlds, nefarious villains, and, of course, heroes. Comic strip historian Maurice Horn notes that Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, “Introduced most of the staples of science-fiction plotting” to the American public—as well as to everyone else in the world who read it.

After the publication of Volume One, Hermes Press will issue a volume of dailies every five months and one volume of Sundays every year, completely documenting this historically important science-fiction/adventure saga over a period of five years. Each volume will feature an essay on the strip by a leading science-fiction author to place the series in historical perspective along with documentary materials and production artwork.

Award winning Sci-Fi writer and popular culture historian Ron Goulart says, “In the annals of sci-fi there is no more important series than Buck Rogers, it set the standards for action, humor, and suspense that have rarely been equaled since the strip premiered in 1929.”

Hermes Press is using the original engraver’s proofs as the source for these reprints so the strip will look better than when it was originally printed. For the Sunday version of the strip, which will be released next year, “Hermes Press will digitally recolor all of the Sundays so our complete version of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century will be the definitive version of the most important sci-fi strip ever,” observes Publisher Daniel Herman.

Science Fiction legend Ray Bradbury, author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, credits Buck Rogers with sparking his imagination and interest in the future and so have generations of youngsters and their parents; see and experience the thrill and awe of the precursor of Star Trek, Star Wars, and every other science fiction story to come after it, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, available everywhere in September.

[skeletorjr]

Oh, mama, I've been waiting for this. I can finally retire my tattered old Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

[Bobby Nash]

I want it.

[SMARTASS8]

I've never understood why Flash Gordon keeps getting different relaunches through different mediums and Buck Rogers hasn't really been touched since that TV show from the 70's? They both came out during the same era and Buck even has that "man out of time" aspect that spices it up more than Flash. I'm looking forward to this but I'm a little nervous about Dynamite getting the license for new adventures(I wish it was IDW or Dark Horse).

[Spy_Smasher]

This is RIGHT up my alley. I love it when great fun and interesting history meet.