The LOOK-IN PICTURE STRIP ARCHIVE

beowulf · Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 5

After a long time seraching (and bidding wars against Duran Duran fans who were trying to buy TV Tops issues for lousy pin-ups of the group), I've managed to collect a complete run of original UK Buck Rogers comic strips from both Look-In and TV Tops. Here they are:

BUCK ROGERS Look-In comic strips

Promo and Intro

LI01 - The Praxonian Conquest 10-18-80 to 11-29-80 (1980 43-49)

LI02 - The Re-Integration Bombarder 12-6-80 to 1-17-81 (1980 50-52,
1981 1-4)

LI03 - Robot Revolution 1-24-81 to 3-7-81 (1981 5-11)

LI04 - The Evil Collector 3-14-81 to 5-2-81 (1981 12-19)

LI05 - Sweet Dreams 5-9-81 to 6-13-81 (1981 20-25)

LI06 - Farnn the Invincible 6-20-81 to 8-1-81 (1981 26-32)

LI07 - The Oxygen Oceans of Anubis 8-8-81 to 9-5-81 (1981 33-37)

LI08 - Interplanetary Civil War 9-12-81 to 10-24-81 (1981 38-44)

LI09 - Stinnkex the Genie 10-31-81 to 11-21-81 (1981 45-4 Cool

LI10 - Visitor From the Future 11-28-81 to 1-2-82 (1981 49-53, 1982
1)

REPRINT - Sweet Dreams (1990 Annual)

BUCK ROGERS TV Tops comic strips:

TT01 - Heart of the Black Hole 9-4-82 to 10-2-82 (48-52)

TT02 - Enemy From the Past 10-9-82 to 10-23-82 (53-55)

TT03 - Terrorist From Thul 10-30-82 to 11-6-82 (56-57)

TT04 - Warlord 11-13-82 to 11-27-82 (58-60)

TT05 - The Sun Eater 1-8-83 to 1-22-83 (66-6 Cool

TT06 - Golden Death 1-29-83 to 2-5-83 (69-70)

TT07 - The Changelings 2-12-83 to 2-26-83 (71-73)

TT08 - Escape Into the Past 3-5-83 to 3-19-83 (74-76)

TT09 - Attack on Outer City 4-2-83 to 4-9-83 (78-79)

TT10 - The Alien Jar 4-30-83 to 5-7-83 (82-83)

TT11 - Ghost Ship 5-28-83 to 6-4-83 (86-87)

TT12 - Robodrone 6-18-83 (89)

TT13 - Return of Warlord 6-25-83 (90)

TT14 - The Zoo Keeper 7-9-83 to 7-23-83 (92,94)

TT15 - The Flame Monster 7-30-83 to 8-6-83 (95-96)

TT16 - Alien Video Game 8-20-83 to 9-3-83 (98-100)

TT17 - Buck's Evil Twin 9-17-83 to 9-24-83 (102-103)

TT18 - Parallel Dimension 10-1-83 to 10-8-83 (104-105)

TT19 - The Space Knight 10-15-83 to 10-22-83 (106-107)

TT20 - The Living Trees 10-29-83 to 11-5-83 (108-109)

TT21 - Intergalactic War 11-12-83 to 11-19-83 (110-111)

TT22 - The Aging Ray 11-26-83 to 12-3-83 (112-113)

TT23 - Overlord 12-10-83 to 12-24-83 (114-116)

TT24 - The Ghost Planet 12-31-83 to 1-7-84 (117-118)

TT25 - Buck Rogers in the 30th Century 1-14-84 to 1-21-84 (119-120)

TT26 - 500,000-Year Delay 1-28-84 (121)

Behind the Scenes of Buck Rogers (77)

Buck Rogers Burger World (84)

Covers

Enjoy! And please feel free to add the Look-In strips to the picture archives here on the webpage.

I'm working on cleaning up my scans of the Battlestar Galactica and Mork & Mindy runs as well (I've scanned them all, but need to do all the image clean up work still).

- Allen

CapBritain · Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject:

This is quite a coincidence but it just so happens I'm working on the Buck Rogers Picture Strip Homapage for the Archive right now! I happened to go home and visit my parents a little while ago and had a rummage through their loft. While I didn't find any old issues of look-In (intact, thatis), I did find quite a number of loose pages from the Buck Rogers strip! It turned out I'd ripped them from the mag and stuck them together as individual stories (I quite liked the Buck TV show, I must admit). What I ended up with was three complete adventures and two (what I assume) are near complete. Still, while I've been working on the new homepage for Buck, I've had no idea how many adventures or issues there actually were until now. Your contributions, Allen, are extremely appreciated and will be invaluable to the upcoming Buck Rogers homepage!!! Many thanks!

CapBritain · Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject:

I'm also very keen to read the Buck strips that appeared in TV Tops too (having never seen or ever read the mag)! It'll be interesting to compare Look-In's version with TV Tops both in story and art. By the way, Allen, you're obviously a big Buck Rogers fan -- how would you like to write the Homepage intro to the show and picture strip for us...? No worries if you don't want to, your contribution has already been enough, but let us know if you'd like to have a go...

DAZ

beowulf · Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 5

I'm glad you can use the scans I did! The TV Tops strip was much more juvenile in story (and, near the end, in artwork as well). Some of the TV Tops "stories" were comprised of a single two-page strip! (Kind of hard to classify those as actual stories!).

I'm a huge Buck Rogers fan, as you said, and only found out about these strips in my quest to collect all Buck Rogers comis strips (I've now managed to do so and have every single daily & Sunday comic strip as well as every original comic book story). I'm in the US, so I had never seen either Look-In or TV Tops before a year or two ago when someone pointed me in the direction of this site. So I have this site to thank for a frantic two years of bidding wars against Duran Duran and Abba fanatics to collect a full run of these strips! I actually found out about the Look-In strips from here and subsequently managed to collect the issues I needed, thinking I had once and for all completed my Buck Rogers collection only to then find out that TV Tops also ran a strip and that they were 10 times harder to track down than the Look-In magazines! After many more bidding wars and more money than I care to remember I managed to complete that run as well.

I know this is probably way off topic for here, but if anyone is interested in seeing some of the orignal Buck Rogers newspaper comic strips, I created Savefile links for about 5 GB worth of scans that I can post in a single message here in the forum. I also have another 5 GB or so worth of savefile links for Flash Gordon comic strips. If anyone has any interest, let me know and I'll post the lilnks in a new thread marked as being "off topic".

I'd love to help contribute to the text on the Buck Rogers comic strip archive page, but since I know little about the history of how the strip ended up in Look-In, who worked on it (other than the few artists who'se work I recognize) or much about the history of Look-In itself, I'm not sure what I can contribute. I'd be happy to write up a very brief history of Buck Rogers itself (from the original pulp stories in "Amazing Adventures" to the comic strip to the serial to the TV show and beyond).

- Allen

CapBritain · Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:07 pm Post subject:

Yes, it's off-topic, but I for one would absolutely love to see the other Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon strips you have!!! I'm especially a big Flash Gordon fan which, at the moment, even includes re-watching the old B&W 30s movie serials! Yes, please post the links for all us eager sci-fi buffs...

CapBritain · Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject:

... and if you haven't already seen it, the Look-In Archive now presents the complete Buck Rogers In The 25th Century adventures over in the Picture Strip homepages section, all thanks to new member beowulf! Check it out if you haven't already downloaded the strips!

porkulator · Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 155 Location: Liverpool, England

Great stuff, I really enjoyed the first season of Buck, but as usual they can't leave a good formula alone, and the second season was really dissapointing, thank goodness the strip had finished by then. Great seeing more Buck again.

Shaqui · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 158

I've just noticed a mistake in the Buck Rogers strip section - strip 9 is actually by Martin Asbury, not John Burns. Looks like there was a bit of chopping and changing around at that time...

Shocked

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