Buck Rogers Special

Launched in 1937 by Fitchett Bros., this short-lived eight-issue series continued the space-faring adventures of the iconic Buck Rogers, a character already famous from newspaper strips and serials. While the publisher is less known today, the comic stands as an early, self-contained example of science fiction in the four-color medium, capturing the pulp-era optimism about rocket ships and ray guns. Its place in comics history is as a niche but authentic artifact of the genre's Golden Age, preserving the thrills of interplanetary heroism for a pre-war audience.