Release Message:  Pilot Buck Rogers (is put into suspended animation by a strange gas, only to awake 492 years later to discover the Earth is now ruled by a tyrannical despot. Created by Philip Francis Nowlan.

Description:  Born in 1898, Rogers is a veteran of the Great War (World War I) and by 1927 is working for the American Radioactive Gas Corporation investigating reports of unusual phenomena reported in abandoned coal mines near Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. On December 15, there is a cave-in while he is in one of the lower levels of a mine. Exposed to radioactive gas, Rogers falls into "a state of suspended animation, free from the ravages of catabolic processes, and without any apparent effect on physical or mental faculties". Rogers remains in suspended animation for 492 years. Rogers awakens in 2419.