<p><strong style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Philip Francis Nowlan</strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">&nbsp;(1888-1940) was a Pennsylvania-based journalist and science fiction author, best known as the creator of one of the genre's most well-known Radium Age (1904-33) characters: Buck Rogers. Whose popularity quickly dominated comic strip and radio serials of the early 20th century, culminating with the late-70s television series&nbsp;</span><em style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Buck Rogers in the 25th Century</em><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">. But before he was Buck, he made his debut as Anthony Rogers in the pulp magazine&nbsp;</span><em style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Amazing Stories</em><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">. Where, after becoming trapped in a coal mine collapse and falling into suspended animation, Rogers awakens in the 25th century to discover the United States has been conquered by a race of futuristic Mongols known as the Airlords of Han. Together with warrior girl Wilma Deering, Rogers uses his hard-won 20th century war strategies to ignite an explosive crusade for a new and free 25th-century America.</span></p>