Crane, Roy

Cartoonist. Royston Campbell (Roy) Crane, Jr. was the creator of Washington Tubbs II, an adventure strip first published in 1924. His next creation, Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune, was introduced into the strip in 1928 to protect the non-swashbuckling Tubbs on his adventures. Captain Easy soon eclipsed Tubbs in the story and became the hero of his own Sunday cartoon strip in 1933. In 1949, the Tubbs name was dropped from the daily strip. Crane's last adventure strip was Buz Sawyer, the story of a hard-hitting naval pilot who fought for democracy during World War II and was in naval intelligence afterwards.. Crane was born November 22, 1901, in Abilene, Tex.; died in 1977.

From the description of Roy Crane Collection. [1905-1937?] (Hardin-Simmons University). WorldCat record id: 56133640

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