McComas stayed with Our Gang for a full year and left the series after appearing in the 1932 short Birthday Blues.
Even though he was well into his teens during his Our Gang tenure, McComas was very short for his age and thus capably portrayed his grade-school-age character Brisbane aka Breezy.
However, right after getting expelled from school in Readin' and Writin', Brisbane goes to the fishing hole, and begins mentally telling himself to "Learn that poem".
Naval Weapons Center in China Lake, California and then an institutional mortgage-backed bond salesman under the name John Mandy.
[citation needed] McComas committed suicide in a fit of depression two weeks before turning 65 when he was facing mandatory retirement from his job.