Mayor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Mayor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Richard Wilkins III (commonly referred to as The Mayor) is a fictional character in the fantasy television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997–2003). Portrayed by Harry Groener, he is the mayor of Sunnydale, a fictional town rife with vampires and demons in which the main character, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) lives. The premise of the series is that Buffy is a Slayer, a young girl endowed with superhuman powers to fight evil, which she accomplishes with the help of a small group of friends and family, called the Scooby Gang. During the show's second
Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics and Joss Whedon (or his office), and the books were therefore later published as official Buffy merchandise. The stories in the Buffy comics take place in between episodes of the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" TV series, and continue after the series ended. Issues 1 to 63 take place during the period that the series was still on air, and none are written by Joss Whedon himself. The earlier issues are not very easy to place in the series other than the season they are set in. The stories get more specific later on, however; for example, the "Oz" Buffy comics