Buzzy Brown

Buzzy Brown is an ordinary American teenager who debuted in 1947 as the star of DC's lighthearted teen-humor strip. A trumpet-playing, record-collecting kid, he navigates the comic misadventures of everyday adolescent life with no powers beyond youthful enthusiasm.

Buzzy Brown is a Golden Age gem who first bounded onto the page in Detective Comics #128 in 1947, brought to life by creator Paul Cooper — and what a long run it turned out to be, stretching across an impressive 23 years of DC Comics history. With 205 catalogued appearances and a dozen key issues to their name, Buzzy is far more than a footnote, popping up across a wonderfully eclectic range of titles from Leave It to Binky to Our Army at War to Strange Adventures. Along the way, Buzzy shares the page with some genuinely memorable company — Superman and Clark Kent among them — making this a character whose comics footprint is both surprisingly deep and endlessly rewarding to explore for any serious Golden Age collector.