Amazing Stories, volume 3, number 5
Item
Title
Amazing Stories, volume 3, number 5
Editor
Table Of Contents
The skylark of space (a serial in three parts) part 1 by Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby; The head by Joe Kleier; Armageddon - 2419 by Philip Francis Nowlan; Hicks invention with a kick: the perambulating home by Henry Hugh Simmons; The moth by H.G. Wells
Cover Description
A person in a red flight suit using some kind of pack flight system hovers above a couple; the woman waves a kerchief to him. The people are in front of two residential looking buildings and a large lawn.
Notable Details
This issue marked the first appearance of Buck Rogers, one of science fiction's most famous characters. The story in which he appeared is Philip Francis Nowlan's Armageddon 2419 A.D. The character would go on to appear in comics, movie serials, television series, etc. Because of its age and the importance of the character, this issue is highly collectable
List of contributing authors
Publisher
Experimenter Publishing Company
Format
29.75 cm long, 22.5 cm wide, 1 cm tall;100 pages
Date
August 1927
