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Buck Rogers in the 25Th Century: the Gray Morrow Years Volume 1 (1979-1981) Buck Rogers in the 25Th Century: the Gray Morrow Years Volume 1 (1979-1981) (Free pdf) Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Gray Morrow Years Volume 1 (1979-1981) Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Gray Morrow Years Volume 1 (1979-1981) 73DK66RrZ Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Gray Morrow IDZyzY4PE Years Volume 1 (1979-1981) EPQrpcj5r SO-84218 YlnfQW8HI USmix/Data/US-2013 G8jeYx2EX 5/5 From 764 Reviews 3xvhRJEcl Jim Lawrence WF22zmQif ebooks | Download PDF | *ePub | DOC | audiobook zt0oXekjO HYMN0mV5S jSCuvjSfL zcoWHLAsv 5tPMMJZXX 1yVRXFsyK M7BpFgQmh 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A Gray Morrow 4GzjmsXKM MasterpieceBy Stephen Vincent KemptonIn my humble opinion the three best jLLVkSUf8 Science Fiction Comic Artists in the history of Comic art are Al Williamson, jP5EgQVzq Wally Wood and Gray Morrow. In this volume you get to see Gray Morrow at hL44bH0po the top of his form doing what he does best. Yes I know their have been CMnq1qRxK rumblings because what we have here does not match the description as far as plXKSvlYQ content. What we have are the first five continuities from the relaunched 1979 KZhIWnpxR Buck Rogers comic strip, running just under a year in length. The Sunday strips 08yE1VVYr are in full color and run a full page, the dallies are in glorious black and white SBXySKgSh and run two to a page. Cramming any more of this beautiful art on to a page Glos2HpBe would have been a shame.Hermes Press is a small company with a small Jco1siIEN budget. I have purchased all their books and this volume I find to be their best O1V0KVgmY book yet. The color restoration and black and white looks excellent and is MGMvGY4Kj lovingly reproduced. Publisher Daniel Herman provides an excellent 8F5RmQFlG introduction about Gray Morrow. He also provides original art from his own collection which is reproduced in a gallery in the back of the book.In 1979 in the wake of the Star Wars craze NBC brings back Buck Rogers first in a TV Movie then in a TV series. It is decided to bring the newspaper strip back to life at the same time. The strip had been canceled since 1967. The team of Jim Lawrence (writer) and Gray Morrow revive the strip using new likeness of the characters different from both the original strip and new TV show. The cast consists of Buck Rogers, a pilot from current earth brought to the future, Commander Wilma Deering and Doctor Huer. Also on board are re-occuring villains Killer Kane and Princess Ardella. #1 SPACE VAMPIRE the first story introduces us to the cast in plot revolving around a Elephant's Graveyard made out of derlict Spaceships. Yoryx the space vampire it is revealed is working with Kane and Ardella. The plot is a little cheesy but fun.#2 MUTANT ZONE the second story is twist on Island Of Doctor Moreau and highlights Morrow's skill at drawing both sexy beautiful woman and ugly mutants.#3 VOSTRIAN CRISIS involves a story of politics and revolution among an avian society. Wilma picks up a pair wings so she can go under cover among these bird people. On page 117 Twiki (from the TV show) makes a one panel guest appearance from out of no where.#4 THE FACELESS KID is my favorite of the five arcs as Buck is appointed Marshall on the planet Texar. Texar is of course a futurist send up to Old West and Texas. Killer Kane , Princess Ardella and Wilma all show up along they way in various disguises.#5 SOLAR PERIL is the final story about Ominu the ruler of planet of perfect people who is causing solar flares and jeopardizing the Earth. the story borrows some from Frank L Baum you will discover.Gray Morrow who at one time worked as an assistant himself for Al Williamson and Wally Wood used some assistants himself on this strip. Probably the most famous are Stan Woch (of Airboy fame) and Tim Truman (Scout). Jack Sparling also helped on the strips. Jim Lawrence quit several months after the end of this collection and was replaced by DC comics legend Cary Bates who continued to the end. The strip lasted another three years. A year and a half more from Gray Morrow and a year and a half from artist Jack Sparling. Sparling while no Gray Morrow did produce some nice work.We really need to see the rest of Gray Morrow work and even the Jack Sparling material would be a delight since the newspaper circulation towards the end made these strips impossible to find.My Highest Recommendation for this one of my favorite books of the year.1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Buck Rogers...reborn again!By L. W. SwintIn 1967, during the height of the so called "space race" between the United States and the Soviet Union, a pop culture institution that played a role in introducing millions to the wonders of space and science fiction, died. Ten years later, a space fantasy film written and directed by a talented young filmmaker named George Lucas was released, and in audiences around the world, it reignited that spark of excitement in the universe beyond our world. That movie, "Star Wars," would inspire the rebirth of that pop culture icon in its own theatrical film, a television series and a comic strip illustrated by one of the great creators of comic art. That decades old pop culture phenomenon was Buck Rogers!"Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Gray Morrow Years Volume 1," is a hardcover book published by Hermes Press which collects the first 2 years of the revitalized newspaper comic strip adventures of one of the first science fiction heroes. As written by James Lawrence and drawn by Gray Morrow, Buck Rogers' return to the comic strip page is a welcome rebirth of a classic character, envisioned by an artist born to draw this kind of adventure tale. While taking its initial look and design inspiration from the 1979-1980 TV series which starred Gil Gerard as Buck Rogers, and Erin Gray as Wilma Deering, the comic strip was very much the artistic vision of Mr. Morrow. Buck and Wilma are the ideal hero and heroine, handsome and beautiful. Writer James Lawrence made them equals in all their outer space adventures, comrades in arms with a hint of romance in their relationship. Their villainous counterparts are Killer Kane and Ardala, who trouble Buck and Wilma more than once in this volume. The foursome are featured in a dramatic tussle on the book's cover. Ardala in particular is depicted in a distinctively sexy Morrow manner in her appearances. The Lawrence and Morrow version of Buck Rogers is very much a contemporary take on the character. This premiere volume contains a total of 5 of Buck's exploits:1."Space Vampire" (September 9, 1979 - November 6, 1979)2."Mutant Zone" (November 7, 1979 - January 17, 1980)3."Vostrian Crisis" (January 18, 1980 - April 2, 1980)4."The Faceless Kid" (April 3, 1980 - June 9, 1980)5."Solar Peril" ( June 10, 1980 - August 18, 1980)The black and white daily strips are printed 2 per page while the color Sunday illustrations are reproduced in full size. Regrettably a few examples of the black and white strip art seemed to be reprinted with a lesser quality but it is not a major distraction in the enjoyment of Mr. Morrow's work.A very special highlight of this book is the inclusion of reproductions of some of Mr. Morrow's original newspaper artwork. This gives the reader the opportunity to more fully examine and admire the unique line rendering technique of this gifted artist. Mr. Morrow did not seem to be a deliberate artist like the great Hal Foster when it came to his style. To this fan's eye, his use of the pencil and pen line appear to come to the comic art page in a slightly more improvisational way, almost in what I can only describe as a happy flourish. It is the mark of his genius that Mr. Morrow's work never seems overly calculated but rather sparked by that first light of inspiration and imagination.This volume also includes promotional artwork for the comic strip and a fully illustrated introduction by Daniel Herman, which provides a brief history of Buck Rogers and an artistic biography of the talented artist that was Gray Morrow. The book as a whole, in all its 224 pages, is a lasting tribute to Mr. Morrow, a true master of comic art. It comes highly recommended.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Buck Rides Again!By r r pollakA beautiful collection of Gray Morrow's Buck Rogers strips. Full of fun and adventure! Love the pages shot from the original art. With the success of the Buck Rogers TV show the New York Times Syndicate decided to revive the classic Buck Rogers newspaper feature and to give it a contemporary sci-fi treatment. The feature, which was unrelated to the television show, offered the artwork of Gray Morrow with scripts by Jim Lawrence. Volume One offers a full two years of the strip with the black and white dailies and full-color Sundays. This material has never before been offered in its original version..
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