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Nice Wash Tubbs daily with an underwater scene and all the main characters. The racial stereotypes used by Crane to create humor are had to look at with a contemporary perspective. These should be viewed with the lens of understanding what social norms were at the time of publication and perhaps inferring what Crane's intentions were. It doesn't make it right but we can't cancel all of the past.
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About Roy Crane
Royston Campbell Crane, who signed his work Roy Crane, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer. He pioneered the adventure comic strip, establishing the conventions and artistic approach of that genre. Comics historian R. C. Harvey wrote, "Many of those who drew the earliest adventure strips were inspired and influenced by his work
