Golden Age Comics Socks
Description: Simon Templar, a freelance adventurer, started out robbing from robbers, and later turned to just involving himself in things that he thought might be fun, dangerous, and perhaps even do some good. He came to be called The Saint because of a small stick figure with a halo over his head, he would leave after having struck. He later gave up his thieving ways and just started looking for adventure.
Description: During the Japanese siege of Manila, young Juan Manito is fleeing to the hills with his mother and sister when a Japanese plane strafes them, killing the mother and sister. He goes undercover with the Japanese, pretending to be a traitor, until he can direct the Japanese troops into an ambush and kill the pilot who killed his mother and sister. Manito then carries on the fight in guerrilla fashion.
Description: Anthony "Buck" Rogers, a former Air Force service pilot, working as a mining surveryor, is trapped in a cave-in. Over come by a strange radioactive gas that places him in suspended animation, he wakes up 500 years later! Joined by Wilma Deering, her brother Buddy, and the brilliant Dr. Huer, the battle the evil Mongol hords, led by Killer Kane and the malevolently beautiful Ardala, who are out to enslave the world in the year 2419 A.D. Many comics aficionados consider the adventure strips of the 1930s to constitute a Golden Age. And most who feel that way consider that Golden Age to have started with the simultaneous debut of Tarzan of the Apes and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D., on Jan. 7, 1929.
