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BUCKY BIZARRE

Real Name: Bucky Bizarre (?)

Identity/Class: Unrevealed; humanoid at least (see comments)

Occupation: Time-traveling adventurer

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: alley woman (name unrevealed), garbage monster, match stick girl (name unrevealed), Rairies, Ronnie Raygun (loose)

Enemies: American Prohibition Era gangs (Northside Gang, Southside Gang, Westside Gang; city & members unrevealed), Groobles, hippy "witch" (name unrevealed), vampire (name unrevealed)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile across the "time stream" linked to Earth

First Appearance: Bizarre Adventures I#28/5 (October, 1981)

Powers/Abilities: Bucky Bizarre is an experienced time traveler using his single-cabin rocket-shaped time-machine (which is thousands of years old). He accesses what he calls the time stream and is linked to Earth, but never too far above the ground (although the time stream shows planets and stars). Bucky has extensive knowledge of vampires. Bucky wears a uniform/costume that includes an eye shield and a Brodie-type helmet with wings, possibly associated with speed for when the canopy of his time-machine is open. He is well-meaning and chivalrous, but not brave. He has no fighting skills.

Height: 5'2"
Weight: 100 lbs.
Eyes: Dark gray (interpreted as partially obscured by eye shield)
Hair: None (bald)

History:

(Bizarre Adventures I#33/4 (fb) - BTS) - Bucky Bizarre traversed the time stream and encountered many people, many of whom he didn't like including some who masqueraded as witches.

(Bizarre Adventures I#29/4 (fb) - BTS) - For unrevealed reasons, Bucky studied vampirology.

(Bizarre Adventures I#28/5) - Traveling the time stream, Bucky was forced to land when his time-machine became damaged from hurtling rocks. He landed in 1956 somewhere in the USA, recognizing the time as unfriendly. Bucky immediately encountered a stinking pile of waste activated by radioactive chemicals and tuned into a sentient humanoid, but in wishing to become friends with locals, was instead attacked for his appearance. But when a gunman kidnapped a local dignitary's daughter, Bucky encouraged the monster to act and it ripped apart the villain. At first the suburbanites thanked it, but Bucky was astonished when the locals quickly turned on the monster and ran it out for its smell and lowering property values. Bucky tried to calm the upset creature, but it poured grass seed on itself, wanting to be liked and respected by suburbanites by being a lawn (alone).

(Bizarre Adventures I#30/4 (fb) - BTS) - Bucky had a burger, shake and fries before leaving the 1950s.

(Bizarre Adventures I#29/4) - Bucky went into the time stream in his time-machine to see his friends in the paleolithic age when a scream caught his attention. Stopping to investigate with the year around 1900, Bucky found a woman being harassed by a man in Gothic attire down an alley. Bucky warned her the man was actually a vampire seeking not a kiss but to bite her, her encouraged her to run. While scampering, the woman rummaged in her overladen purse for a crucifix but tripped. The vampire leapt at her but his head was sliced off by a stray wire between the narrow walls.

(Bizarre Adventures I#30/4) - The burger meal made Bucky fall asleep in the time-machine cabin and hitting "inconsistencies in the time stream" jolted him awake. He made a rough landing in the far future and encountered the beautiful athletic women called Rairies shooting at the monstrous Groobles in the wilderness. Bucky considered similarities with the plot of a H.G. Wells story [The Time Machine]. Bucky was surprised to see the arrival of a flat wooden aircraft carrying the elderly Ronnie Raygun, who returned to the Rairie leader to give her a thank-you gift for her earlier hospitality.

(Bizarre Adventures I#31/8) - Bucky's unreliable time-machine again crashed, this time in Prohibition Era USA. His craft crash-landed into a giant vat of bootleg beer, be found himself caught up in an execution by the Northside Gang of the Southside Gang, when suddenly the Westside Gang attacked the warehouse with guns. Bullets blazed everywhere; Bucky chivalrously threw a hapless female gang member to the ground to save her. The gangs had killed each other in the wild gunfire; Bucky and the woman were the only survivors and she intended to take over the bootleg operations now that many of the gangsters had died. However, bullet holes had weakened the main supporting pole and roof collapsed. Bucky and woman escaped safely to the jetty and looked at the wreckage helplessly.

(Bizarre Adventures I#32/8) - Bucky again traversed the time stream in his time-machine when it sputtered. He stopped in the Mesozoic era to quickly tune up his ship for its 5000-year service, then gave it a test run, but it propelled incredibly fast. By the time Bucky regained control, he was in a black void which he interpreted as a point before the universe existed. Eventually bored waiting, he called out for someone to say "Let there be light!", and lo, there was bright light. Bucky was astonished at what he (may have) had inadvertently done.

(Bizarre Adventures I#33/4) - Bucky landed in the Victorian era and stopped an old woman from kidnapping a baby as she intended to bathe in the infant's blood to give a youthful complexion. Disgusted with the depravity, he rocketed to the 1960s for a more enlightened era of peace, sexual freedom and funky music. He landed in a peaceful field but was immediately accosted by a hippy-type woman claiming to be a witch. He refuted her claim, but she grabbed him and jumped into his "convertible" vehicle and they took off. She pushed Bucky down and took over the controls. Bucky protested, again saying that she wasn't a witch and she couldn't transform him into anything. She swerved the craft wildly and smashed into a brick wall to prove she could turn him "into the side of a building!"

(Bizarre Adventures I#34/6) - Bucky was able to escape the hippy "witch" and repair his time-machine.

(Bizarre Adventures I#34/6) - Bucky time-traveled back to 1840s era London (or possibly eastern USA) because he wanted a holiday when Christmas was not so commercialized. He was drawn to a very young woman selling matches, but realized her approach was aggressive. He found her less appealing when she used a match to light a bomb to attack her big boss' mansion, but the boss in return grabbed his big gun to shoot her. Bucky fled the exploding sounds and concluded that crass commercialism was favorable compared to class warfare on the night before Christmas.

Comments: Created by Steve Skeates & Steve Smallwood.

Is it Earth-616? He makes no reference to super-powered folk and is at the (apparent) start of the universe, but there's nothing distinct to rule him out.

So just who is he? Is he a uniformed rogue agent of the Time Variance Authority, escaping in a time-machine, adventuring on short jaunts like a variation of the Doctor (Doctor Who)?

His physical appearance is slightly different to (other) humans in the story. The general humans have longer faces with a little more detail while Bucky is rounder and less detail. This may just be artistic license. One side character notes him to be very short, yet he is attracted to the young female match seller, so he's human or a human-like being.

The story in Bizarre Adventures I#28 of the creature wanting to be liked and respected by becoming pretty lawn is immediately followed for an ad for Marvel's adaptation of Stephen King's 1975 novella The Lawnmower Man, which features a suburban homeowner who takes pride in his neat lawn.

In Bizarre Adventures I#30/4, Ronnie Raygun = Ronald Reagan (40th US president and western cowboy movie actor). Coincidentally, two years after this story's moniker, Reagan advocated a proposed "Star Wars" missile defense system that included lasers to shoot down missiles (but like the comic, it was canceled).

Bucky's Brodie-type helmet with wings is reminiscent of DC's Golden Age Flash (Jay Garrick) and interpretations of the Olympian god Hermes.

All the BB stories were the last story in an issue. They had satire and a bit of humor.

Only the last story in Bizarre Adventures I#33 was printed in color.

This profile was completed 06/09/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary 's celebratory event.

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS :
Bucky Bizarre has no known connections to:

images: (without ads)
Bizarre Adventures I#30/4, p2, pan2 (main image)
Bizarre Adventures I#34/6, p2, pan7 (headshot in color)
Bizarre Adventures I#32/8, p2, pan1 (in time-machine)

Appearances:
Bizarre Adventures I#28/5 (October, 1981) - Steve Skeates (writer), Steve Smallwood (art), Denny O'Neil (editor)
Bizarre Adventures I#29/4 (December, 1981) - Steve Skeates (writer), Steve Smallwood (art), Denny O'Neil (editor)
Bizarre Adventures I#30/4 (February, 1982) - Steve Skeates (writer), Steve Smallwood (art), Denny O'Neil (editor)
Bizarre Adventures I#31/8 (April, 1982) - Steve Skeates (writer), Steve Smallwood (art), Denny O'Neil (editor)
Bizarre Adventures I#32/8 (August, 1982) - Steve Skeates (writer), Steve Smallwood (art), Denny O'Neil (editor)
Bizarre Adventures I#33/4 (December, 1982) - Steve Skeates (writer), Steve Smallwood (art), Denny O'Neil (editor)
Bizarre Adventures I#34/6 (February, 1983) - Steve Skeates (writer), Steve Smallwood (art), Denny O'Neil (editor)

First posted: 09/22/2026
Last updated: 06/09/2026

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