Dire Bare
Legend
To complicate matters further, the character was not called "Buck" Rogers until the comic strip. I'm not sure that the brand would have the staying power it does if it had been called "Anthony Rogers," which was the character's name in the original Amazing Stories tales.
--Erik
I am enjoying the Buck history posts from Erik and Jim, but I could care less about all the Williams bashing going on. Like others, I feel she was a bad CEO for TSR, but I don't believe she wears black dresses with high collars and black pointy hats. And even if she was, it's all water under the bridge as far as I'm concerned.
Hating the Buck Rodgers property because of someone's possibly shady dealings with one aspect of it is the epitome of silly, IMO. There may have been warehouses full of Buck unsold Buck products, but there were also warehouses full of unsold DragonDice and D&D products as well.
I personally loved the Buck Rodgers RPG and novels TSR originally put out, but didn't care for the "reboot" they did later with a board game (and maybe other stuff).
I love the property, and I'm crossing my fingers that Dille and Williams succeed in bringing Buck back!
Of course, I would like the history of the Dille Family Trust part of the website to be corrected. That'd be nice.