New Zealand compilation issue. Note the ad on inside back page for digest sized reprints of Dell westerns. There is more information about this book at the bottom of the page
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When does this story date from ? I assume from the " I Could Have Danced All Night " reference it's post-My Fair Lady .
Anyway , MORE , MORE , MORE of these Antipodean Steve/Mikes !!!!!!!!!!!
Boy , that butch haircut and slacks Mike wears...Where did the back-up/filler material come from ?
Yank comic books ? I can see where the re-lettering was done to put pound signs and corresponding words in .
By SuperScrounge
According to the Grand Comics Database http://www.comics.org/issue/1118715/ te Dance of Death story is a reprint of a 1957 newspaper strip.
The comic book itself appears to be a New Zealand reprint of an Australian comic (which reprints American material).
By SuperScrounge
The backups were from Authentic Police Case #11 & 10 respectively.
By OzMan
Can someone tell me, is this character an Australian or American creation? Thanks.
By crashryan
OzMan, "Steve Roper" is an American newspaper strip with a checkered history. It began in 1936 as a cartoony strip, "The Great Gusto," about a W.C. Fields type pitchman. Gusto teamed up with an Indian, Big Chief Wahoo. Wahoo took over the strip which changed its title to "Big Chief Wahoo." Wahoo ran into Steve Roper as the strip took a more adventurous turn. By the mid-40s Roper had taken over the strip and eventually became the title character. In the mid-50s Roper met Mike Nomad, who took over more and more of the action and in 1969 the strip became "Steve Roper and Mike Nomad." Mike became the main character but was still sharing top billing when the strip ended in 2004.
By OzMan
Thanks for the info crashryan.
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