Buster Brown

Buster Brown is an advertising and comic book character that was created in 1902 by Richard Felton Outcault.

The first name of the hero was probably borrowed from Buster Keaton, who was a vaudeville child star back then. The newspaper comic Buster Brown first appeared on May 4, 1902 New York Herald. As Outcault in 1906 moved to the Hearst newspapers, it came to a dispute between the Herald and Hearst. The court ruled that Outcault was able to take as the creator of his created character that the eponymous name but had to remain with the Herald. So Buster Brown appeared on the Herald until probably 1911, while Outcaults version published by Hearst until 1921.

1904 acquired the Brown Shoe Company, the naming rights to Buster Brown and put the brand name so created the first time at the World's Fair in St. Louis before. The company applied for their products by diminutive people who Buster Brown as a disguised and accompanied by a dog, into the 30 years occurred in shoe stores and department stores. To date, the Brown Shoe Company advertises with the name and the recently redesigned logo with Buster Brown shoes for children.

In the 1920s some real film adaptations of the star Bros. were created. The little dog term was played by " Pete the Pup ". The film was directed by Gus Meins, the ( " The Little Rascals " Little Rascals =) was later also to the popular film adaptations of Our Gang involved.

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Buster Brown is a comic book character, a mischievous, always old-fashioned dressed little boy. His sister, Mary Jane and his dog term. Term is the first dog in comics have been, who could speak, but this comic adults could not hear. The success of the comic strip resulted from the fact that he, unlike the Katzenjammer Kids or The Yellow Kid, played in the top layer and the stories with mild moral messages included, instead, as in other strips, usually with clubs for over the traces beating hero.