According to the legendary artist Frank Frazetta, his well-known Famous Funnies Buck Rogers cowl run was an affect on George Lucas.
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Buck Rogers has been some of the enduring science fiction classics in American historical past since its debut in Amazing Stories quantity 3 quantity 5 in 1928. From these pulp origins, it unfold to grow to be a preferred favourite throughout media, together with comedian strips, movie, tv, and far more. Legendary artist Frank Frazetta created eight Buck Rogers covers for the long-running comedian e-book collection Famous Funnies in 1953/54 (whose writer infamously rejected a ninth cowl for being too violent. This turned the quilt of Weird Science-Fantasy #29 from EC Comics in 1955) which have grow to be extremely influential in their very own proper. All Eight of the Frazetta Buck Rogers Famous Funnies cowl points can be found in attractive excessive grade within the 2023 January 12 – 15 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction #7338 at Heritage Auctions.
As not too long ago mentioned, Buck Rogers was a formative affect on figures starting from Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry to Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. But the mix of Frazetta and Buck Rogers had a particular magic of its personal, in line with Star Wars creator George Lucas:
“When George Lucas came out to visit he told me that my Famous Funnies covers had been one of his inspirations for Star Wars,” Frazetta relates, “which I thought was a pretty sweet thing to say.” Fans have been dissatisfied after they realized Frank had turned down Lucas’ supply to color the quilt for a Star Wars novelization and mystified when his ads for the spinoff “Battlestar Galactica” began appearing weekly within the TV Guide. “The simple answer,” Frazetta explains, “is that I got to paint what I wanted and I retained my originals and my copyrights. I wouldn’t have been able to keep either if I had taken the Star Wars job and I would not have had much creative freedom. That would have been a step backward for me.”
The e-book Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta elaborates considerably on the Frazetta/Star Wars connection, in addition to the inspiration that a pair of those Famous Funnies covers specifically, had on George Lucas, quoting Frazetta as saying, “George Lucas told me that my Famous Funnies covers were an influence on Star Wars. Specifically, #213 on Chewbacca and #214 on the Death Star”. This mixture of a legendary creator engaged on an everlasting property in Buck Rogers is as irresistible as we speak because it was in 1953. All Eight of the Frazetta Buck Rogers Famous Funnies cowl points can be found within the 2023 January 12 – 15 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction #7338 at Heritage Auctions.
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- Famous Funnies #209 (Eastern Color, 1953), Frank Frazetta Buck Rogers cowl.
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- Famous Funnies #210 (Eastern Color, 1954), Frank Frazetta Buck Rogers cowl.
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- Famous Funnies #211 (Eastern Color, 1954), Frank Frazetta Buck Rogers cowl.
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- Famous Funnies #212 (Eastern Color, 1954), Frank Frazetta Buck Rogers cowl.
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- Famous Funnies #213 (Eastern Color, 1954), Frank Frazetta Buck Rogers cowl.
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- Famous Funnies #214 (Eastern Color, 1954), Frank Frazetta Buck Rogers cowl.
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- Famous Funnies #215 (Eastern Color, 1954), Frank Frazetta Buck Rogers cowl.
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- Famous Funnies #216 (Eastern Color, 1954), Frank Frazetta Buck Rogers cowl.
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