Author: Philip Francis Nowlan
Philip Francis Nowlan was a Pennsylvania-based journalist and author of Radium Age science fiction. In addition to Armageddon—2419 A.D., he wrote The Airlords of Han (1929), The Onslaught from Venus (1929), and The Time Jumpers (1934). His long-running and much-imitated Buck Rogers comic strip, illustrated by Dick Calkins, first appeared in January 1929.