Australian. An interesting twist on the landscape format that I think only happened in Australia. The cover is portrait, as in American comics but the comic opens and is read as landscape. There is more information about this book at the bottom of the page
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Love reading Aussie comics. Thank you for adding this to the site. Hope you have more of the Crimson Comet? Please you do!
By crashryan
There's some nice drawing here, especially in the first half of the book. The artist seems to be strongly influenced by George Wunder. Anyone know who he is?
Later edit:
After considerable Googling I've concluded that the artist is Albert de Vine. According to Comicoz's history of Australian comics, the Comet was created and drawn by John Dixon, but Dixon left after seven issues and de Vine took over. Dixon returned to the character "in the mid fifties," but this issue is from much earlier than that.
By Downunder Dan
The writer/artist of this story is Albert De Vine. His biography at the AusReprints site says:
After serving in the armed forces during the war, de Vine probably studied at the Julian Aston School of Art around 1947 before undertaking a scholarship in the US (Sydney Morning Herald 2/8/1947).
During the early forties, De Vine illustrated 'Council of Four' (Syd Miller) and 'High Compression. (KG Murray). He also wrote at least one short story for KG Murray in 'Man' April 1945.
Working for H. John Edwards in the fifties, de Vine took over 'The Crimson Comet' from John Dixon (~1952) and regularly drew 'Biggles' (~1952-1957), based on W.E. Johns' novels.
For 10 years he drew the daily newspaper strip 'Smoky Dawson' (~1952-1962) for the Sydney Sun and the first three issues of KG Murray's 'Smokey Dawson' comic series (1957).
He later became a pin-up photographer for 'Man' magazine.
By Downunder Dan
This comic is incomplete - the Crimson Comet Comic is normally 28 pages (including covers) rather than the 19 available here. Unfortunately, I do not have access to a hard copy of this issue. It seems likely the missing segment is another Roger Farr episode.
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