| Buster Brown | |
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Real Name |
Buster Brown |
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First Appearance |
The New York Herald (1902) |
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Created by |
Richard F. Outcault |
Origin[]
Buster Brown, his sister Mary Jane, and his dog Tige were a wealthy city dwelling family at the turn of the century. Buster was a handsome young troublemaker who would pull pranks and would later be caught by his mother and spanked. He usually would state a moral at the end of the strip that would be completely unrelated to his actions.
Public Domain Appearances[]
- The New York Herald May 4, 1902 - January 1911
- The New York Journal 1906 - May 13, 1923
Public Domain Film Appearances[]
- Buster Brown and the Dude (1904)
- Buster Brown Causes a Commotion (1914)
- Buster Brown's Education (1914)
- Buster Brown and the German Band (1914)
- Buster Brown Picks Out the Costumes (1914)
Notes[]
- Buster Brown was first published in the newspaper The New York Herald in 1902. In 1906, after Richard F. Outcault left to go work for William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal and a subsequent court battle that resulted, both the Herald and the Journal were allowed to continue with a Buster Brown comic (though Buster remained nameless in the Journal's version).
- The Herald's Buster Brown ended in 1911 while Outcault's version lasted longer at the Journal, ending in 1923.
- Outcault's character the Yellow Kid would sometimes appear in Buster Brown strips.