[Wash Tubbs scrapbook]. [1927-1929]

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[Wash Tubbs scrapbook]. [1927-1929]

ca. 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Crane, Roy

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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 o...