He was also the gunner on the Navy bomber which Buz flew. Rosco Sweeney, who is now featured on the entire Sunday page, was Buz’s wartime buddy. In addition, I gathered together a very large collection of Navy photographs to use as background material. I’ve always loved to travel, so I went to many different places in search of information that I could use in the strip I even spent some time aboard an aircraft carrier. Before actually starting the strip, and to insure authenticity, I did a great deal of research. It promised lots of action, and I also felt that I would be making a contribution to the war effort. It was during World War II, so I decided to make Buz a Navy pilot.

I drew Wash Tubbs until 1943, when I started drawing Buz Sawyer. Crane approached King Features with an idea for a new strip, and when they offered him ownership, he abandoned Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy in 1943, giving full concentration to launching Buz Sawyer.

However, Crane was an employee of the Newspaper Enterprise Association syndicate, which owned the rights to the Tubbs and Easy characters. With the creation of the popular soldier of fortune Captain Easy in 1929, the strip became, along with Tarzan of the Apes and Buck Rogers, one of the first adventure strips. Wash Tubbs began in 1924 as a humorous story about the romantic adventures of Washington Tubbs, but increasingly Tubbs became involved in exciting adventures in exotic places. Roy Crane was one of the innovators of the adventure comic strip. Buz rejoined the Navy in the 1950s and flew carrier-based reconnaissance attack jets over Vietnam during the 1960s. He married Christy Jameson on December 13, 1948, and their son Pepper was born in 1951. As a civilian in the post-WWII years, Buz became an oil company troubleshooter, traveling to far-flung locales. The last strip signed by Crane was dated 21 April 1979.ĭuring World War II, the adventurous John Singer Sawyer, nicknamed Buz Sawyer, flew as an ace Navy fighter pilot in the Pacific Theater where he had numerous adventures with his sidekick Sweeney. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, it had a long run from Novemto 1989. Buz Sawyer was a popular comic strip created by Roy Crane and highly regarded by comic strip historians.

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