Buster (sport comic) Buster (sport comic) Buster was a sport comic magazine published in Sweden 1967 - 2005, in Norway 1972-1994 and in Finland in the 1970s and 1980s. In December 2005, Egmont discontinued the publication of "Buster" magazine. At first most of the material was taken from the UK edition but as time went on the magazine produced more and more original material. This included "taking over" the "Buster" comic strip itself and changing the main character's appearance to a more typical sports-interested teenager instead of the son of Andy Capp. Other comics included many series from "Tiger" magazine (with a heavy
Al Capp on NBC, featuring the Mary Chase marionettes. Besides "Dick Tracy", Capp parodied many other comic strips in "Li'l Abner"—including "Steve Canyon", "Superman" (at least twice; first as "Jack Jawbreaker" in 1947, and again in 1966 as "Chickensouperman"), "Mary Worth" as "Mary Worm", "Peanuts" {with "Peewee" a parody of Charlie Brown with "Croopy" parody of Snoopy" {1968} drawn by Bedley Damp a parody of Charles Schulz}, "Rex Morgan, M.D.", "Little Annie Rooney" and "Little Orphan Annie" (in which Punjab became "Punjbag," an oleaginous slob). "Fearless Fosdick"—and Capp's other spoofs like "Little Fanny Gooney" (1952) and "Jack Jawbreaker"—were almost certainly an early