Buz Sawyer: The War in the Pacific by Crane, Roy - 2005

Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2005. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 192 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout. Record # 352542

Manuscript Press, 2005. Reprint . Soft cover. Near Fine. b/w Cartoons. Has small bump on corner, otherwise in very nice condition. Buz Sawyer was a popular comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from November 1, 1943 to 1989. The last strip signed by Crane was dated 21 April 1979. John "Buz" Sawyer was initially a fighter pilot for the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. A chivalrous adventurer, he became a troubleshooter for an oil company when the war ended but rejoined the Navy in the 1950s. Roy Crane was one of the innovators of the adventure comic strip. 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. 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. However, Crane was an employee of the Newspaper Enterprise… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.