One of the most obscure strip reprint collections, this volume of the BUCK ROGERS run by Jim Lawrence and Gray Morrow came out in either the late seventies or early eighties and was occasionally seen remaindered in bookstores at the time...but little seen since.
Ronn Sutton writes: "I love this book. I have a very dog-eared copy. I was looking at it last night. His rendition of Wilma Deering has been a source of inspiration for my work on HONEY WEST. The BUCK ROGERS book was published in 1981 and contains about 13 months worth of strips (including all the Sunday strips printed in colour). Gray had a whole hosts of assistants on BUCK ROGERS that included Stan Woch, Ron Wagner, Bob Orzechowski, Denys Cowen, Tim Truman and Jack Sparling. Quick Fox also published a companion volume of Morrow's BARBARA CARTLAND ROMANCES which I really need to track down one of these days (except I have most of the actual strips)."
ReplyDeleteThe PHILADLEPHIA BULLETIN for a brief time had both BUCK ROGERS by Morrow and STAR TREK by Thomas Warkentin (who also did "Soft Landing" in HEAVY METAL). They yanked BUCK ROGERS, and when I wrote to complain, the editor wrote back saying not only did they feel "ST was better" (I wanted to read BOTH!) but that BR was "in poor taste". (I'm guessing some Puritanical types didn't like hot women in revealing outfits.) Within a year, the paper went BELLY-UP! See what happens when those in charge don't give a damn about their readers???
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