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CAPTAIN JUSTICE 1 by Monty Wedd was published by New Century Press in 1950. This character was originally published in Fatty Finn Comics, where he was depicted as an Australian bushranger. He also appeared in Chuckler’s Weekly. His popularity lead to this ...
DEVIL DOONE 1 was published by KG Murray in August 1948 (estimated). All the Devil Doone stories are written by R Carson Gold, who created the character of Jim ‘Devil’ Doone in a small number of text-only stories. Doone became a comics-based character ...
THE KELLY GANG RIDES was a one-shot comic published in the 1940s (no one is sure when, with dates ranging from 1940 to 1945) by L. Clapperton. It’s the only comic published by Clapperton, and features four stories, all by Lucky Doolan. There’s no information ...
THE CRIMSON COMET COMIC 16 was published in September 1950 (estimated) by H John Edwards. This is in the Albert De Vine period of the comic, and this issue sees detective Ralph Rivers on the good ship Nassau, cruising about the Caribbean. An encounter with ...
JEREMY BLADE by Len Lawson was published in 1947 by Wirraway Publishing. (Wirraway is an Aboriginal word, meaning ‘challenge’ or ‘challenger’ in the language of the Wurundjeri Nation.) Wirraway was a short-lived publisher, and Jeremey ...
STEEL BARR AND THE PHANTOM MAN #4 was published in October 1950 (estimated) by Young’s Merchandising. It consists of two ongoing series: STEEL BARR by Lloyd Piper and CHA CHAPMAN by Kevan Hardacre. This was intended as an ongoing comic, but this is the last ...
STEVE SAMSON #13 is part of the Sports Cartoon Books imprint of L Miller & Son, published between 1953 and 1956. ‘Guarantee: All Sports Cartoon Books contain only clean, sporting adventure stories that are warranted to maintain the highest standard ...
NEW ACTION COMICs is an anthology comic with STRATA ROCKETEERS by Max Judd, ROCKY CONDON by Leonard Starr, and RICK ROLAND and some UNCLE SI stories by Doug Maxted. It was published by HE Hoffman in 1945. This comic is good enough to eat, at least to a species ...
SPACE ADVENTURES OF GRIP GRANTHAM 3 by Bill Gill was published in November 1945 (estimated) by an unknown Australian publisher. Next to nothing is known about Bill Gill other than his small number of comics stories. After the four issues of Grip Grantham, most ...
BROCHURE for THE BRODIE MACK CORRESPONDENCE ART SCHOOL. The school started some time in the 1930s. Brodie Mack is the penname of Edward ‘Ted’ Brodie Mack, who was born in New Zealand and started producing gag cartoons and cover illustration foe New Zealand ...
THE PHANTOM RANGER 87 by Peter Chapman was published by Frew in December 1956 (approximately). This issue is late in the run of original Phantom Ranger stories – in less than 10 issues, this comic became a reprint title. This art in this comic looks quite ...
PUNCH PERKINS OF THE FIGHTING FLEET 15 by Virgil Reilly was published by Red Circle Press in February 1952. This is the last issue featuring “Punch” Perkins, and is technically now titled FIGHTINGFLEET COMICS. From the next issue, the comic features ...
PREMIER ‘MAGPIE’ COMIC is an anthology comic published by Frank Johnson Publications in 1945. It includes THE RAVEN by Phillip Belbin, DIANA HASTINGS by Peter Chapman, and a one-off story, THE VAPOUR OF DEATH, by Art Barton, as well as short humour ...
GEM COMICS 8 is an anthology comic published by Frank Johnson in June 1947 (approximated). It features THE RAVEN by Phillip Belbin, SMUGGLERS OF PANAMA by Ian Alison, BARBARA AND THE WATER BABY by Frank Jessup, ROCKY NED by Peter Chapman, and PRENDERGAST by Lock.
SILVER FLASH 9 by Virgil Reilly was published by Invincible Press in February 1951. Reilly is best remembered, if he’s remembered at all, for drawing very attractive young women who were referred to as ‘Virgil Girls’. But in comics, he was well ...
MICHAEL CHANCE 9 by Jeff Wilkinson, published by Pyramid Publications in September 1950 (estimated). Michael Chance is an agent who works for ‘Security Central’, presumably the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), established in 1949. ...
THE CLOAK TELLS TALES OF MYSTERY 7 is an horror/suspense anthology comic published by Horwitz Publications in April 1956 (estimated). This issue contained three stories, two by Royce Bradford and the third (not included here, under site rules) a reprint from ...
THE SHADOW 3 by Jeff Wilkinson, published by Frew in in July 1950. The Shadow had two series, and this issue comes from the first series (1950-1951, 23 issues). Wilkinson created the Shadow, its second Australian-created series (after the Phantom Ranger, also ...
An anthology comic published by Approved Publications in March 1951 (estimated). This issue includes two instalments each of AVIAN TEMPEST, ALAN GREY and LOU BLUE, and one instalment of MARCUS VARIUS. Little Trimmer is reducing the number of separate serials, ...
Features SECRET SERVICE AGENT K-7 by Peter Chapman, published by Illustrated Publications in June 1951. After the Invisible Avenger storyline was completed, this comic became the home of two mostly alternating features – the Blue Ghost and Secret Service ...
SIR FALCON 44 by Jan Kickhefer (who produced comics under the penname ‘Kick’), published by Frew Publications in July 1958 (estimated). Kick became the regular creator on Sir Falcon with #21 and continued producing it until it changed to a reprint ...
FATTY FINN’S COMIC volume 3 #7 was an anthology comic magazine published by Fatty Finn Publications in November 1945 (estimated). This comic is similar to British comics, with a mix of comics and prose stories and articles. The comics in this issue are CAPTAIN ...
THE GREEN SKELETON 4 by Peter Chapman, published by Frew Publishing in December 1953 (estimated). This is a reconstructed version of the comic: the story is from a British reprint collection called GRAND COMIC ANNUAL, which contains reprints of Australian, ...
THE SECRET FORMULA was published by the Offset Printing Company in May 1945 (estimated). It contains two separate recurring features: RED STEELE by Hal English and SHADO McGRAW by Will Donald. (These two features often appeared together.) Under World War II printing ...
SKY HAWK 12 was published by Southdown Press under its Tip-Top Comics brand in November 1955 (estimated). It was the last regular issue of this title (there was a special that came later). This title focussed on airplanes and the pilots that flew them (aeronaut ...
PHANTOM COMMANDO 3 by John Dixon was published by Horwitz Publications in (estimated) July 1959. Dixon created the character, writing and drawing the first three issues, before leaving the title to focus on his Air Hawk newspaper comic strip. Dixon was succeeded ...
TWILIGHT RANGER 4 by Michael Noonan and Keith Chatto was published by Apache Comics in February 1956 (estimated). Apache Comics was an associated company of Cleland Publications, set up to feature comics and books in the Wild West genre. Keith Chatto was the artist ...
SILVER FLASH 20 by Virgil Reilly, published by the Invincible Press in February 1952 (estimated). Silver Flash and his crew versus Bat-Face in this nautical adventure with submarines and whirlpools. This comic plays to one of Reilly’s strengths, ships ...
EXCITING ‘magpie’ COMICS is a anthology comic published by Frank Johnson in 1943. It includes MILT GRAY by Carl Lyons, BOWYANG BILL by Emile Mercier, STEVE CONRAD by Peter and Ross Chapman, PIGGY GRUNTER by Noreen and Ralph Shelley, KIM HALE by Noel ...
CLANCY OF THE OVERFLOW 1 by Hal English (loosely based on the poem by AB ‘Banjo’ Patterson) was published by Apache Comics in November 1956 (estimated). Patterson [1864-1941] started out as a lawyer, before turning to journalism with poetry on the side. ...
COLE STEELE ADVENTURE COMIC 5 by Royce Bradford was published by Wollumbin Press in 1950. Cole Steele is the underworld identity of an undercover agent, infiltrating the criminal underworld. His mission is secret, his true identity known only to the Police ...
THE PANTHER 44 by Paul Wheelahan was published by Young's Merchandising in December 1960 (estimated). Wheelahan was a prolific Australian comics creator (this tile ran for 73 issues), including Yarmak, Space Hawk, Davy Crockett, Rex Strong and the Raven. ...
THE CLOAK TELLS TALES OF MYSTERY 9 is an anthology comic published by Horwitz Publications in June 1956 (estimated). It included three stories, two by Royce Bradford and the third a reprint of a short American comics story published by Marvel Comics (which ...
TRUE PIRATE COMICS 1 is an anthology comic published by Frank Johnson in December 1947 (estimated). This comic had stories about a number of different pirates, some one-of and others having a number of stories, and had an initial regular group of creators consisting ...
THE ADVENTURES OF SMOKY DAWSON 7 features two stories drawn by Andrea Bresciani and published by Colour Comics in December 1957 (estimated). The authorship is unknown – Smoky Dawson was very protective of his public image, and certainly would have had a hand ...
BLACK VULTURE COMICS was published by NSW Bookstall Co in the early 1940s. It contains two stories – one featuring the villainous BLACK VULTURE and the other the heroic DR MENSANA. Both stories are written and drawn by Tom Hubble, AKA Hub. Dr Mensana ...
Dan tells - "Smoky Dawson was a popular cowboy troubadour decades ago in Australia. He was a real person (with a fake name) and who participated in any number of entertainment events. Smoky was so popular that he got his own radio program (a bit of western ...
SPECK RYAN 1 by Frederic Bates was published by Wollumbin Press in 1948. Speck Ryan is a schoolboy adventurer, originally self-published as a one-shot comic by Bates before Wollumbin published the character in a 10-issue science fiction adventures. Like many ...
BRODIE MACK METHOD PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS is a coursework book from the Brodie Mack Correspondence Art School. It includes the preliminary instructions for the course as well as six lessons. The book is intended to be accompanied by a series of charts relating ...
c2c version; a 33 page blonde goddess scan with undamaged fc + lofty pilot's ifc, ibc, and bc from the copy on site; also, a few small fc fixes (blonde goddess fc scan included at end)
Nice 68p c2c copy. Credit to the original scanner. Not actually a one-shot; there were two issues, although #2 has yet to be indexed at comics.org. Packaged by Harry A. Chesler, this was a Remington Morse title, like Mirth of a Nation, Riggin' Bill and Yankee ...
c2c copy of this 20-page promotional book; scanned by Henry Peters
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