The Adventures of
Buck Danny
Issues and Authors


The French-Belgian aviation based comic LES AVENTURES DE BUCK DANNY (THE ADVENTURES OF BUCK DANNY) was created in 1947 by Victor Hubinon and the Belgian journalist Georges Troisfontaines, but after a dozen of pages Troisfontaines transmitted the task of writing the stories to Jean-Michael Charlier who lead the comic for about 50 years.
After the first publication in the French comic book SPIROU the series gets its own publication in 1948 and is still being published today after 52 issues.
The main characters are Buck Danny, Sonny Tuckson, and Jerry Tumbler three US pilots involved in a series of aviation, war, spy stories and international intrigues starting from the beginning of WWII until today.
Of course in this series the temporary logic is not considered being the main characters, for evident reasons, never aged even if they and their stories have advanced with history.
The first issues are mainly related to WWII in the Pacific and the Indocine scene. After the war, the three pilots left the armed forces and join a "shady" private airline company in the Middle East. At the end of the 40s, the three brave pilots are again enlisted in the USAF as test pilots and then are involved in the Korean war.
After the Korean war Buck Danny and his friends joint the US Navy for a long exchange pilots program. The adventures which take place during the 50s are mainly related to US naval aviation with a variety of situations like test flights, industrial expionage, international pace keeping etc.
In this period Buck Danny and his fellows meet for the first time with the criminal spy and mercenary known as Lady X. This female pilot is the chief of an international mercenary organisation which offers its expionage and sabotage job to the best payer.
In the adventures placed during the 60s and 70s the three aviators are protagonists of exciting and dangerous situations. Worthy to be mentioned are: the intricate rescue of a Mercury astronaut and relevant capsule, the experimental flight on the X-15, the loss and the theft of an atomic weapon, the dangerous story with the Blue Angels acrobatic team, and the fighting against an international criminal organisation involved in drug production and sale.
After the death of Victor Hubinon in 1979 the series was stopped for four years. Jean-Michel Charlier restarts the Buck Danny adventures with the drawings of Francis Bergese who takes both the rule of writer and draftsman ten years later after the death of Charlier.
In these new adventures which take place between the 80s and today Buck Danny and his friends alternate the exchange activity in the US Naval Aviation with their duty in the US Air Force ranks being involved as F-14 and F-18 pilots, training in the USAF Aggressors group, SR-71 and TR-1 pilots, and F-22 operative test flight. Their adventures taking them all around the world in several dangerous missions which prove their courage and brave as ardent defenders of the American ideals.
The main characteristic of these comics is the high accuracy of the graphic reproduction of aircraft, ships and technical devices and especially in the last issues also of the equipment and uniforms.
The realism of the series are also enhanced by short definitions or explanations of technical material and sometimes they also contain historical and technical notes.
Buck Danny and his sidekicks also appeared in some illustrations of the aviation comic book LES AVENTURES DE TANGUY ET LAVERDURE dedicated to the French military pilots flying on Mirage fighters. The two french pilots meet Buck Danny and his US Navy squadron of F-8 Crusader in the US Artic base of Thule in the story CANON BLEU NE RÈPOND PLUS (BLUE CANON NO ANSWER)
Reference to the Buck Danny adventures are also present in other two comic books of TANGUY ET LAVERDURE respectively from the story PRISONNIERS DES SERBES related to the Bosnia conflict thus connected with the Buck Danny story #46 L'ESCADRILLE FANTOME and in the TANGUY AND LAVERDURE story OPERATION OPIUM related to the Afghanistan/Iran scene.
Buck Danny on board of the Aircraft carrier USS John Stennis is also shown in the story LA NUIT DU CARACAL in the comic book MISSIONS KIMONO n. 10 settle in the Afghanistan scene.
Even if specifically dedicated to the US military aviation world the Adventures of Buck Danny are mainly published in European countries like France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy and Spain and translated in the relevant languages.

Buck Danny in Holland
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In USA The Adventures of Buck Danny are almost unknown. Only few issue have been so far translate in english like for instance MISSION APOCALYPSE available from milehighcomics.com.
In 2004 the AIR COMICS started out with the idea of selling Buck Danny to US Servicemen, women and US embassy staff in english translation.
MYSTERY IN THE ANTARCTIC is another album translate in english and it is published by AIR COMICS.
The others stories translate in english are the NIGHT OF THE SERPENT and THE SECRETS OF THE BLACK SEA published by the British company CINEBOOK in 2009 and 2010.
In some German publications Buck Danny has been also renamed as Rex Danny.
In France the adventures of the first 40 issues have also been published by Rombaldi in twelve beautiful volumes of a dedicated Buck Danny library .
First published in 1948 the Adventures of Buck Danny are still continuing today with modern themes.
All the albums are periodically reprinted by DUPUIS and always available in the book and comic stores. All the adventures with some new short stories are also published in the collection series "TOUT BUCK DANNY" (ALL BUCK DANNY)
ALBUM ISSUES

Buck Danny #1
Buck Danny #2
Buck Danny #3
Buck Danny #4

Buck Danny #5
Buck Danny #6
Buck Danny #7
Buck Danny #8

Buck Danny #9
Buck Danny #10
Buck Danny #11
Buck Danny #12

Buck Danny #13
Buck Danny #14
Buck Danny #15
Buck Danny #16

Buck Danny #17
Buck Danny #18
Buck Danny #19
Buck Danny #20

Buck Danny #21
Buck Danny #22
Buck Danny #23
Buck Danny #24

Buck Danny #25
Buck Danny #26
Buck Danny #27
Buck Danny #28

Buck Danny #29
Buck Danny #30
Buck Danny #31
Buck Danny #32

Buck Danny #33
Buck Danny #34
Buck Danny #35
Buck Danny #36

Buck Danny #37
Buck Danny #38
Buck Danny #39
Buck Danny #40

Buck Danny #41
Buck Danny #42
Buck Danny #43
Buck Danny #44

Buck Danny #45
Buck Danny #46
Buck Danny #47
Buck Danny #48

Buck Danny #49
Buck Danny #50
Buck Danny #51
Buck Danny #52
COLLECTION SERIES

Tout Buck Danny #1
Tout Buck Danny #2
Tout Buck Danny #3
Tout Buck Danny #4

Tout Buck Danny #5
Tout Buck Danny #6
Tout Buck Danny #7
Tout Buck Danny #8

Tout Buck Danny #9
Tout Buck Danny #10
Tout Buck Danny #11
Tout Buck Danny #12

Tout Buck Danny #13
Tout Buck Danny #14
Tout Buck Danny #15
Tout Buck Danny #16
Buck Danny's main authors
Jean-Michel Charlier
Jean-Michel Charlier was born on 30 October, 1924 in Liege Belgium. After having gotten a doctorate degree in letters and criminology he worked for the newspaper SPIROU. He was very fond of aviation and got his private pilot licence reaching the qualification of co-pilot on the Douglas DC-3.
In 1947 he created the adventures dedicated to the US aviator Buck Danny and in 1959 he was one of the founders of the JOURNAL PILOTE and the succesfull comic series Tanguy et Laverdure dedicated to French military aviation.
In 1963 Charlier created a company of young artists. He than collaborated with the realisation of a French military aviation TV serial based on the Tanguy et Laverdure comics.
In 1980 he restarted the new Buck Danny series previously stopped after the death of the artist Victor Hubinon, with the new talented artist Francis Bergese.
Charlier died young on July 10th, 1989 leaving a huge blank in the French-Belgian comic universe.
Victor Hubinon
Victor Hubinon was born on 26 April 1924 in Liege Belgium. He attended the art academy paying his studies by selling drawings and caricatures to newspapers and magazines.. After WW II he worked for some mounths as draftsman for the daily newpaper LA MENSE and in 1946 for the SPIROU. In 1947 he started the collaboration with Jean-Michel Charlier for the realisation of the Buck Danny series. He became very fond of aviation getting his own private pilot licence.
Meanwhile he continued the drawings for the Buck Danny series he also wrote some biographies and comics like Fifi, published in LA LIBRE JUNIOR from 1953 to 1955, and for the young readers Pistolin. In 1959, still together with Charlier, he drew the pirate Barbarossa published in PILOTE.
In 1978 Hubinon started the series La Mouette but unfortunatly he died young on January 8th, 1979 at the age of 54.
Francis Bergese
Francis Bergese was born on 12 July 1941 in Crest France. After attending the local college he got his private pilot licence and then he joint the Army aviation as F.A.C. pilot on duty in Algeria from January 1961 to October 1962. Bergese worked from 1964 to 1973 for the publisher FLEURUS and for some publications like Ajax, Cap 7 and Zorro.
A very good artist, he has a particular talent to draw the aviation based scenarious and in 1980 he started the collaboration with Charlier for the new issues of the Buck Danny series.
After the death of Charlier, Bergese made a Buck Danny story with De Douhet and then he continued the series taking both the rules of writer and draftsman. Very found of aviation, Bergese is often a welcome guest of French, Belgian and US military aviation flight groups.