A Buck Rogers page by Bolton dated 1979, at a time when Bolton was doing a lot of material for hardcover British annual books for a range of TV-based characters and series. This is one Annual I'm unfamiliar with, and I probably have more of them than anyone else in North America.
Bolton's art here harkens back to Frazetta's Buck Rogers covers of the 1950's for
FAMOUS FUNNIES 209-216 (I have a Russ Cochran oversize portfolio of the Frazetta covers, circa 1975). About a year before he did Kull "Demon in a Silvered Glass" in BIZARRE ADVENTURES 26, his first U.S. work. But as you can see from all the examples I've posted above, Bolton was already doing some very sophisticated work. And much of it on old pulp and S F characters he (and we) all grew up with. It must have been a heck of a lot of fun for him. Inspired work.
I've never been disappointed with Bolton's contributions to any of these albums.
