Sunday, November 8, 2015

Buz Sawyer - The War in the Pacific

Buz Sawyer was a popular comic strip created by Roy Crane, one of the innovators of the adventure comic strip. The strip, which originated in 1943 and ran in syndication until 1989, features the globe-spanning adventures of John Buz Sawyer. A chivalrous adventurer, Buz Sawyer was initially a fighter pilot for the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. When the war ended, Buz became a troubleshooter for an oil company. However, civilian life didn’t suit Buz Sawyer all that much, so he re-enlisted in the Navy as a jet pilot in the 1950s, leading to many exciting Cold-War adventures.


 

This book reprints all of the daily strips published during World War-II. Buz serves aboard an aircraft carrier, flies combat missions against the notorious Japanese Zeros, crash lands behind enemy lines, and is captured by a Japanese submarine. Buz fights the Japanese and romances beautiful island dames in this first year of Roy Crane's classic comic strip. The book will include all of the daily Buz Sawyer strips from 1943 and 1944. (Manuscript Press)
The quality of the reprinted strips varies a lot in this book. Most of them are muddy. Both as a result of bad source material and too low resolution when scanned. On the other hand there are a few pages that looks as if they are scanned straight from proofs. Other seems to be scanned in high resolution but from bad sources.  

The book also includes a selection of the best of the Sunday strips, which featured Buz Sawyer's pal and gunner, Roscoe Sweeny. 

As a great comic strip artists/writers, Roy Crane was largely overlooked. He was a master storyteller and his work still continues to inspire cartoonists, even today...

Read here one of the vintage Buz Sawyer comics..

 
The War in the Pacific (First 32 pages, Size: 15.3 MB)
The War in the Pacific - II (Next 33 pages, Size: 25.3 MB)


4 comments:

  1. one of my favorite.
    thanks for sharing.
    waiting for next pages .

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  2. আমার ও প্রিয় হিরো , কুন্তলদা কিছু নন ইন্দ্রজাল বাজ সাওয়ার পোস্ট করো ।

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  3. অসাধারন ! বাজ সাওয়ার আরো কমিকস চাই ।

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    1. Next বেশ কিছু পাতা দিয়ে দিলাম - পরের পার্ট সামনের বছরে !!

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