Buck Rogers in the 25th Century January 25, 2007

While dreaming up rocket ships and ray guns long before man's walk on the moon, (the comic strip) series 'Buck Rogers in the 25 th Century,' also displays American cultural fear of "Red China", the "Yellow Peril" (Japan), and the exotic Asiatic "other" during the early-mid 20th century, reminding us that our 21st century political events and warfare abroad, and at home, are not the first clash, real or imagined, between civilizations east and west, or conflation of distinctions between alien and foreign.