The series starring the character of Sweeney started sporadically in the Sunday newspapers in the mid 1940s, but, confusingly, under the title of Buz Sawyer (see below). In the same period of time the character of Sweeney slowly disappeared from the Buz Sawyer daily comics.

This is the story of Sweeney, a poor family man, who lives a both rural and suburban life (periodically with his sister Lucille): Sometimes he earns a living as a farmer, sometimes he tries to make ends meet on door-to-door sales. And occasionally he takes adventurous trips on his own to sunny islands!

The character of Sweeney is in fact taken from Crane's wartime comic Buz Sawyer, in which he served as a comical sidekick and gunner in Sawyer's naval airfighter.