(Hermes publisher Dan) Herman described the series as a “riff” on the original series and tells me Chaykin went back and read the two original pulp prose stories and roughly the first 10 years of the strip to get ready.Look to the left and the promotional poster does look like the classic period of the strip.

This will come out in normal comic book format and Herman is thinking May 2013 is a likely target date. Herman says Chaykin is initially working on 4 issues and when those are completed they’ll have a look at it and see where to go from there. He wants to evaluate the work as a whole, not piecemeal. Also factoring into this approach is Herman’s philosophy that “you let Howard do his job.” He knows who he hired, so he’s getting out of the way.

Hermes has a five year license for Buck Rogers comics, which means the license for a new comic as well as reprint rights for the previous comic books, like the Gold Key series based on the television show and, yes, some Murphy Anderson work from the early ’50s. Part of their proposal was a “back to basics” new series.

Nice, I see he's also got Black Kiss II coming out later this year as well...