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 through rural West Virginia and the Cumberland Valley as a teenager. (This was years before the Tennessee Valley Authority Act brought basic utilities like electricity and running water to the region.) Leaving "Joe Palooka", Capp sold "Li'l Abner" to United Feature Syndicate (later known as United Media). The feature was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934, in eight North American newspapers—including the "New York Mirror"—and was an immediate success. Alfred G. Caplin eventually became "Al Capp" because the syndicate felt the original would not fit in a cartoon frame. Capp had it changed legally in 1949. His younger brother Elliot