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Buck Rogers is a fictional character who first appeared in a novella titled ''Armageddon 2419 A.D.'' by Philip Francis Nowlan published in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine ''Amazing Stories'' as Anthony Rogers.〔Garyn G. Roberts, "Buck Rogers", in Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne (.ed) ''The Guide To United States Popular Culture''. Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2001. ISBN 0879728213 (p.120)〕 A sequel, ''The Airlords of Han'', was published in the March 1929 issue. Philip Nowlan and the syndicate John F. Dille Company, later known as the National Newspaper Syndicate, were contracted to adapt the story into a comic strip. After Nowlan and Dille enlisted editorial cartoonist Dick Calkins as the illustrator, Nowlan adapted the first episode from ''Armageddon 2419, A.D.'' and changed the hero's name from Anthony Rogers to Buck Rogers. The strip made its first newspaper appearance on January 7, 1929.〔 Later adaptations included a serial film, a television series (where his first name was changed from Anthony to William), and other formats. The adventures of Buck Rogers in comic strips, movies, radio and television became an important part of American popular culture. This pop phenomenon paralleled the development of space technology in the 20th century and introduced Americans to outer space as a familiar environment for swashbuckling adventure.〔〔Robert Jennings,"Bucking the Future: From 1928 to the 25th Century With Anthony Rogers". ''Comic Buyer's Guide'' July 5, 1990. (pp. 58, 60, 62, 65-66).〕 Buck Rogers has been credited with bringing into popular media the concept of space exploration,〔Patrick Lucanio, Gary Coville, ''Smokin' Rockets: The Romance of Technology in American Film, Radio and Television, 1945–1962'' (2002). McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-1233-X〕 following in the footsteps of literary pioneers such as Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. ==Characters and story== The character first appeared as Anthony Rogers, the central character of Nowlan's ''Armageddon 2419 A.D.'' Born in 1898, Rogers is a veteran of the Great War (World War I) and by 1927 is working for the American Radioactive Gas Corporation investigating reports of unusual phenomena reported in abandoned coal mines near Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. On December 15, there is a cave-in while he is in one of the lower levels of a mine. Exposed to radioactive gas, Rogers falls into "a state of suspended animation, free from the ravages of catabolic processes, and without any apparent effect on physical or mental faculties." Rogers remains in suspended animation for 492 years. Rogers awakens in 2419. Thinking that he has been asleep for just several hours, he wanders for a few days in unfamiliar forests (what had been Pennsylvania almost five centuries before). He notices someone clad in strange clothes, who is under attack. He defends the person, Wilma Deering, killing one of the attackers and scaring off the rest. On “air patrol”, Deering was attacked by an enemy gang, the Bad Bloods, presumed to have allied themselves with the Hans. Wilma takes Rogers to her camp, where he meets the bosses of her gang. He is invited to stay with them or leave and visit other gangs. They hope that Rogers’ experience and knowledge he gained fighting in the First World War may be useful in their struggle with the Hans who rule North America from 15 great cities they established across the continent. They ignored the Americans who were left to fend for themselves in the forests and mountains as their advanced technology prevented the need for slave labor. In the sequel, ''The Airlords of Han'', six months have passed and the hunter is now the hunted. Rogers is now a gang leader and his forces, as well as the other American gangs, have surrounded the cities and are attacking constantly. The airlords are determined to use their fleet of airships to break the siege. In 1933, Nowlan and Calkins co-wrote ''Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'', a novella that retold the origin of Buck Rogers and also summarized some of his adventures. A reprint of this work was included with the first edition of the 1995 novel ''Buck Rogers: A Life in the Future'' by Martin Caidin. In the 1960s, Nowlan's two novellas were combined by editor Donald A. Wollheim into one paperback novel, ''Armageddon 2419 A.D.'' The original 40-cent edition featured a cover by Ed Emshwiller. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Buck Rogers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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