Buck Rogers #171

Published
March 1953
Page count
28
Cover price
8d [0-0-8 AUP]
Colour
Black & white
Size
Standard size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Matte colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
Branding
Tip-Top Comics
 
Tip-Top Comics

Credits

Editing
, editor

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover Untitled (Buck Rogers) Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Buck Rogers
Genre
Science fiction
Show/hide 1. Foreword Foreword, introduction, preface, afterword, 1 page

"Imprisoned in an impervium room, on the planet Thor, Buck Rogers awaits certain death by the hand of Zarm, a Thorian who plans to rule Earth."

Show/hide 2. Untitled (Buck Rogers) Comic story, 9.67 pages

Featuring

Feature
Buck Rogers
Genre
Science fiction
Show/hide 3. A Great Comic… Watch for It [Red Ryder] Promo (ad from the publisher), 0.33 pages
Show/hide 4. Untitled [Grandma Crookes] (Plastic Man) Comic story, 8 pages

"Her name was Grandma Crookes and hearts melted at the sweet sentimental sight of her!"

Featuring

Feature
Plastic Man
Genre
Superhero
Characters
Rocky Crookes

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Alex Kotzky , line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Al Grenet, original Editor [as Alfred Grenet]
 
Richard Arnold, original Associate Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Plastic Man (Quality, 1943 series) #30 (July 1951)
Untitled [Grandma Crookes]
Also printed
United Kingdom
New Spaceways Comic Annual (T.V. Boardman, 1954 series) #1 (Christmas 1954)
Untitled
Show/hide 5. Untitled (Spudo) Comic story, 6 pages

"Sorry boys, but I just washed my hands and I can't do a thing with them."

Featuring

Feature
Spudo
Genre
Humour
Characters
Spudo; Ira Ratt; Ellen; Oscar Guggle; Deputy Snodgrass

Credits

Writing
Klaus Nordling , scripter
Art
Klaus Nordling, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Harry Stein, original Editor
Management
Busy Arnold, original General Manager [as E. M. Arnold]

Reprint history

First print
United States
The Barker (Quality, 1946 series) #15 (December 1949)
Untitled

Synopsis

Spudo gets involved in a local sheriff's race.

Show/hide 6. Untitled (Virgil) Comic story, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Virgil
Genre
Humour

Credits

Writing
Len Kleis, scripter [credited]
Art
Len Kleis, line art [credited]
 
Len Kleis, line art [credited]
Text
, letterer
Show/hide 7. "3" Tip-Top Comics Promo (ad from the publisher), 1 page

Notes

Some issues include printing on pink pages.

Status

AusReprints ID

  • 55881

Entry created

  • 17/11/2015

Cover added

  • 17/11/2015

Index completed

  • 17/02/2022

Last updated

  • 17/02/2022