Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Buck Rogers</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1948-04-07
name: label: graphic artist
content: Anderson, Murphy
label: publisher
content: John F. Dille Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for <i>Buck Rogers</i> shows Feather explaining to Captain Rogers how he used humor and essentially acted as a court jester to trick Modar and Futura into letting him into the palace to spy on the criminals.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Murphy Anderson (1926- ) began working as a comic book artist in 1944, drawing strips such as <i>Suicide Smith</i> and <i>Star Pirate.</i> In 1947 he took over the <i>Buck Rogers</i> newspaper strip after original artist Dick Calkins retired, but he left the strip two years later to return to comic books. Anderson returned to drawing <i>Buck Rogers</i> in 1958 but for less than a year.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Buck Rogers</i> (1929-1967, 1979-1983) was an adventure strip inspired by a story entitled “Armageddon 2419 AD,” which appeared in a 1928 issue of <i>Amazing Stories</i> magazine. The strip debuted with a storyline similar to that of the magazine where the hero, a young man named Anthony Rogers, wakes up five hundred years in the future, after a gas-induced sleep, to an America being ruled by evil overlords. Rogers is then recruited by the resistance, and begins his work fighting aliens, robots, and other villains. The strip was canceled in 1967 but was restored in 1979, as a television series, a comic book version, a feature film, and a comic strip.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Joseph Gura, Jr. (through Carl Sandberg IV)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0081.004
label: accession number
content: 2010.0081
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0081.004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.5 cm x 43.2 cm; 5 23/32 in x 17 in