Philip Francis Nowlan was an American

United States

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 science fiction

Science fiction

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 author, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers

Anthony Rogers is a fictional character that first appeared in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. A sequel, The Airlords of Han, was published in the March 1929 issue....

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Career

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania he worked as a newspaper columnist. He married, moved to the Philadelphia suburb of Bala Cynwyd and created and wrote the Buck Rogers comic strip, illustrated by Dick Calkins. The character Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers

Anthony Rogers is a fictional character that first appeared in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. A sequel, The Airlords of Han, was published in the March 1929 issue....

 first appeared in Nowlan's 1928 novella Armageddon 2419 A.D.

Armageddon 2419 A.D.

Armageddon 2419 A.D. is Philip Francis Nowlan's novella which first appeared in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. A sequel called The Airlords of Han was published in the March 1929 issue of Amazing Stories. Both stories are now in the public domain in the US according to...

as Anthony Rogers. The comic strip ran for over forty years and spun off a radio series, a 1939 movie serial, and two television series.

Nowlan also wrote several other novellas for the science fiction magazines as well as the posthumously published mystery, The Girl from Nowhere.

Persona life

Nowlan was married to Theresa Junker. They had ten children: Philip, Mary, Helen, Louise, Theresa, Mike, Larry, Pat, John, and Joe.

Works

• Armageddon 2419 A.D.
  Armageddon 2419 A.D.
  Armageddon 2419 A.D. is Philip Francis Nowlan's novella which first appeared in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. A sequel called The Airlords of Han was published in the March 1929 issue of Amazing Stories. Both stories are now in the public domain in the US according to...
  
  (1928)
• The Girl from Nowhere (1928, ISBN 0-8095-0038-8 (Neuauflage von 2005)
• The Airlords of Han (1929)
  • Munseys.com » The AIRLORDS of HAN at www.munseys.com
  • on Project Gutenberg
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• The Time Jumpers
• The Onslaught from Venus
• The Prince of Mars Returns
• Space Guards
• Wings Over Tomorrow: The Collected Science Fiction of Philip Francis Nowlan (ISBN 0-8095-1095-2)edited by Lee Weinstein www.MySpace.com/leestein

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