Buz Sawyer was a popular comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from November 1, 1943 to 1989. This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Royston Campbell Crane (November 22, 1901 - July 7, 1977) was an American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy, and Buz Sawyer. ... November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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 soldier of fortune when the war ended but rejoined the Navy in the 1950’s. The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... The Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) is the term used in the United States for all military activity in the Pacific Ocean and the countries bordering it, in World War II. Pacific War is a more common name, around the world, for the broader conflict between the Allies and Japan... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

Roy Crane had invented the adventure comic strip with Wash Tubbs in 1924, creating the popular soldier of fortune Captain Easy in 1929. However Crane was an employee of the Newspaper Enterprise Association syndicate, which owned the rights to the Tubbs and Easy characters. Crane approached the King Features Syndicate with an idea for a new strip, and when they offered him ownership he abandoned the Wash Tubbs strips in 1943. Wash Tubbs was a comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from April 14, 1924 to 1988. ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... King Features Syndicate is a syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation; it distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to thousands of newspapers around the world. ...

Roscoe Sweeney, Buz’ comic-relief sidekick, largely disappeared from the dailies after the war, becoming the star of the Buz Sawyer Sunday strip, a comedy about suburban life. Beginning in the late 1940s Crane turned the writing and drawing chores for that strip over to cartoonist Clark Haas and later Al Wenzel.

Eventually, Crane turned the writing and drawing chores for the daily strip over to assistants Ed Granberry and Hank Schlensker, who began signing it after Crane’s death in 1977. They retired a decade later turning the strip over John Celardo, who handled it until it was discontinued in 1989. For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...