After the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate changed the title to The Adventures of Smilin' Jack on December 31, 1933, it ran as both a daily and a Sunday strip for four decades.

[2][3] Comics historian Ron Goulart commented on the success of The Adventures of Smilin' Jack: Mosley, who also designed posters, insignias and program covers for flying events, became a licensed pilot on November 13, 1936.

He owned nine airplanes, logging over 3000 hours at the controls, and flew on Civil Air Patrol anti-submarine flights during World War II.

Zack Mosley was 87 when he died of a heart attack December 21, 1993, at Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart, Florida.

[4] In May 1948, Mosley was the first civilian recipient of the Naval Air Reserve certificate of merit, for boosting air-mindedness and civil defense through his strip.