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Benson, Buzz. Buzz Benson was created by Arch Whitehouse (Todd BancroftCrash Carringer, Casket Crew, Coffin Crew, Griffon, Tug Hardwick, Coffin Kirk) and appeared in seventy-two stories in Sky Birds and Flying Aces from 1930 to 1937, beginning with “Diesel Devil” (Sky Birds, Feb. 1930).

Billy “Buzz” Benson is an aviation reporter who works undercover for the Secret Service. This job provides Benson with the perfect excuse to travel and gather information for the Secret Service. He often becomes involved in helping to stop international crime rings and preventing the Japanese, or thinly-veiled Japanese analogues, from vile acts like destroying the American Pacific fleet. Benson flies a Curtiss “Hawk” and was an air ace during World War One, with a “Limey S.E.5 outfit.”

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