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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 ...
HURRICANE COMIC 1 is an anthology comic published by the Offset Printing Co in November 1946 (estimated). It features a STEEL BARR story by Lloyd Piper, a JIM GREY story by Theo Keilly, and a non-fiction page on the History of Ships by “TK” (probably ...
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF MIDDY MALONE by Syd Nicholls is one of a number of special editions in full colour, printed on heavy paper stock and at a larger size than normal (240mm x 350mm – about 9.45” x 13.75”). It sold for three times the price ...
TEX MORTON’S WILD WEST COMIC volume 2 #4 is an anthology comic based on the New Zealand and Australian country and western musician, vaudevillian, actor, television host, and circus performer, Tex Morton. It was published by Allied Authors and Artists ...
KOKEY KOALA AND HIS MAGIC BUTTON 36 by Noel Cook was published by Elmsdale Publications in June 1951 (estimated). Kit contains three stories, each separate from each other, and generally aimed at a younger audience. KOKEY KOALA is a funny animal/superhero hybrid, ...
TRIG MATSON 2 is an anthology comic published by Calvert Publishing in March 1951 (estimated). It continues the three features and one page humour strip from last issue: TRIG MATSON by Kevan Hardacre, ACE GREMLIN AND NUTKEY by Terry Brand, CRIME-BUSTERS INC by Michael ...
ALL COLOUR COMIC SPECIAL is a one-off anthology featuring the popular characters of Elmsdale Publishing. It was printed in colour in 1957. Elmsdale popular characters, each with their own comics, were FELIX THE CAT by Otto Messmer, KOKEY KOALA by Noel Cook, ...
COMICS LIBRARY was a title that swaps between four different features. This issue is number 15, featuring NAVY COMBAT by Virgil Reilly, and was published in December 1953 by Red Circle Publications. This issue tells the story of the last battle of the HMS Glowworm ...
One-off published by the David Jones Publishing Co.; Denis Gifford dated it to 1948. Despite editorial content referring to other comics appears to be the company's only issue of anything.
Credit to whoever the original scanner is; I thought I got the scans ...
1949 one-off by CAS Ltd., who I think were an early version of Scion. Full credit to the original scanner, please add their handle if you know who it is =) Robert Plummer, Bob Wilkin, John Jukes and Alan Fraser are among the artists. Fraser's contributions ...
This comic collects a serial from The Australian Boy Fortnightly retelling the history of the Kelly Gang. It's written by James Jerome Keneally (JJ Keneally) and drawn by Stan Ballard. The serial started in the September 1954, with this collection published ...
THE PINK ELEPHANT RING by Will Donald was published in 1944 by the Offset Printing Company. It includes 3 pages of humourous comics, mostly by Royce Bradford (and one page of uncertain authorship).
MAGICAT 2 is an anthology comic published by KG Murray in 1948. The lead story features Magicat, and is written and drawn by Hart Amos. The comic also includes a Professor Pry the Wise Guy one-pager by Lloyd Piper. There are three stories originally published ...
DEVIL DOONE 29 by R Carson Gould and Hart Amos was published by Colour Comics in July 1957 (estimated). It features five Devil Doone stories reprinted from Man Junior, a pocket-sized magazine for men which includes a small amount of picture strip adventure ...
THE BRONZE VULTURE by Will Donald was published by the Offset Printing Company in 1946. A father and son are ship wrecked on a hostile jungle island, where they become embroiled in a conflict between parties seeking a brass statuette of a vulture. The cover ...
THE LONE WOLF 5 by Keith Chatto, published by Atlas Publication in June 1951 (estimated). You could be excused for thinking Keith Chatto only created western comics – his single-feature comics are The Lone Wolf (1950-1956), The Twilight Ranger (1955-1956) ...
FROGMAN 1 (third series) is an anthology comic featuring stories by Maurice Bramley and published by Page Publications in 1968 (estimated). The preceding two series of Frogman were primarily Australian reprints of American comics, but a few Australian original ...
THE BOSUN AND CHOCLIT FUNNIES 38 by George Needham, published by Elmsdale Publications in 1949. Some modern readers might find the depiction of Choclit in this comic offensive, but it is a style of portrayal of black characters common at the time of publication ...
THE PURPLE PEOPLE EATER by Terry Trowell, was published by Modern Magazines in 1958. It was inspired by the novelty song written and performed by Sheb Wooley, released in June 1958. The basic idea is the same: a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater ...
DAUNTLESS ‘magpie’ COMICS is a anthology comic published by Frank Johnson in 1946. It includes BOWYANG BILL by Emile Mercier, CRASH McKANE by Rhys Williams, MILT GRAY by Carl Lyons, KIM HALE by Noel Cook, BUNYA THE BUNYIP by Noreen and Ralph Shelley, ...
THE PANTHER 45 by Paul Wheelahan was published by Young’s Merchandising in January 1961 (estimated). Like many Australian superhero (and super-villain) comics, there is a remarkable flexibility with the setting and sub-genre from issue to issue. A very ...
ARMY 4 is an anthology comic by Moira Bertram, and published by Calvert Publishing in September 1956 (estimated). Bertram is best known for adventure and romance comics, so this four-issue series seems out of character, especially given the focus on real-world ...
DEATH IN THE DESERT was published by the Offset Printing Company in 1945. It contains two features: RED STEELE in ‘Death in the Desert’ by Hal English, and SHADO McGRAW in ‘The Green-Eyed Dwarf’ by Will Donald, as well as two single-page ...
SUPER FUN COMICS is an anthology title, published by HE Hoffman in 1947. The comic is mostly by Doug Maxted, with stories featuring DICK WESTON, BIG RICK ROLAND, PIRATE PETE and UNCLE SI, with Leonard Starr contributing RED MASK and HERBIE. (Note: this isn’t ...
YARMAK 41 by Stanley Pitt and Frank Ashley was published March 1953 (estimated) by Young’s Merchandising. It’s a reprint of Yarmak 21 from the same publisher in July 1951. (Due to declining profitability of comics in Australia, Yarmak became a reprint ...
BEN BARBARY BUSHRANGER COMICS 3 was an anthology-published by HE Hoffman in 1947. It contained the following features: BEN BARBARY BUSHRANGER, KLUCKY KLUTTERBUCK, VESTA THE VESUVIAN, CAPTAIN CARVER OF THE CARIBBEAN, and LITTLE BOSCO, as well as a couple of educational ...
HOODED RIDER 28 was published by Action Comics in April 1954 (estimated). It contained two features: THE HOODED RIDER by Len Lawson, and ROGER FARR by Cliff Barr. Lawson’s earlier creation, the Lone Avenger, had proven very popular, and he was asked to create ...
BRENDA 25 by Yaroslav Horak (using the penname Larry Horak) was published by Atlas Publications in November 1953 (estimated). This issue contains two stories featuring Brenda. Brenda, the comic, began as Brenda Starr, reprinting stories using the newspaper ...
DEVIL DOONE 30 by R Carson Gold and Hart Amos, published by Colour Comics in January 1958 (estimated). This issue contains two Devil Doone stories, which were originally published in Australian men’s magazine, Man Junior. This issue also contained a third ...
SILVER JACKET vol.3 no.23 is a magazine in the style of British story paper, published by Beaconsfield Productions in August 1955. The style of this publication is mostly prose stories and articles, with some comics stories and also a kind of club activities ...
THE FOUR BEARS is a children’s story published like a comic book. It’s by Syd Miller and was published by Frank Johnson in 1941. It’s a bit gruesome, but no worse than, say, Little Red Riding Hood. For the record, koalas are not members of the bear ...
TEX MORTON’S WILD WEST COMIC volume 2 #9 is an anthology comic based on the New Zealand and Australian country and western musician, Tex Morton. It was published by Allied Authors and Artists in April 1950 (estimated). This publication includes both comics ...
WIZARD ‘MAGPIE’ COMICS is an anthology one-shot comic published by Frank Johnson in 1946. It includes DOPE SQUAD by John Delaney, BOWYANG BILL by Emile Mercier, STEVE CONRAD by Ross and Peter Chapman, JO AND HER MAGIC CAPE by Moira Bertram, ALLIES ...
BUGSEY BEAR 29 is a funny animal anthology, largely made up of American reprints. New Century Press published this issue in May 1955 (estimated). This issue features a new Bugsey Bear story created by Max Yahl, an Australian cartoonist, because the publishers ...
THE PHANTOM PIRATE by Syd Nicholls, published in 1943 by Syd Nicholls. This is another of the upscale pirate albums Nicholls produced over the years. It contains two Phantom Pirate stories, a character that had already appeared in ‘Fatty Finn’s ...
CLIMAX ALL COLOR COMIC 4 is an anthology comic published by KG Murray in 1947. This anthology consists of an Australian original lead story, featuring RED CARR by Rich Cocks, along with three American reprints. These stories are printed in colour. There is a single-page ...
MONSTER COMIC 4 is an anthology publication similar to an English story paper – in fact, it is the size of a tabloid newspaper. It was published in October 1945 (estimated) by Syd Miller Publications. There are a small number of comics by Syd Miller, ...
THE PANTHER 19 by Paul Wheelahan was published ny Young’s Merchandising in November 1948 (estimated). As well as an atomic weapon, this issue features Quintinella, a recurring opponent of the Pather.
KING ‘MAGPIE’ COMICS is an anthology published by Frank Johnson in 1946. It contains PEACE PLANET by Noel Cook, ISSY DIZZY by Colin Robertson, SECRET AGENT XX13 by Emile Mercier, BERT CONLEY OF THE MERCHANT NAVY by Rhys Williams, PRENDERGAST & ...
KID KOALA 4 by Reg Hicks was published by Wollumbin Press in 1948. While the comic Kid Koala has the appearance of a collection of newspaper strips, it doesn’t appear to have been published before the comic book appeared. Hicks did write and draw comic ...
COMICS LIBRARY 9 is a war comic with rotating features. This issue is Navy Combat by Virgil Reilly, published by Red Circle Press in June 1953. The Navy Combat issues all recount a true story of war at sea during World War II, in this case the events leading ...
CONVICTED COMICS 14 is a crime anthology comic, published by Action Comics in December 1956. This anthology originally published crime comic stories from Prize Comics titles, particularly Justice Traps the Guilty, however it would include some original stories ...
MAC OF THE MOUNTIES by Terry Powis was published by the NSW Bookstall Company in 1942 (estimated). With World War II underway, restrictions on importing comics (and other publications) and syndicated proofs that would allow foreign comics and comics strips ...
LONE WOLF 34 was published by Atlas Publications in November 1953 (estimated). It includes two features: the Australian LONE WOLF by Keith Chatto, and a reprint of a US story of the AMERICAN EAGLE by John Severin, in this case reprinted from Prize Comics Western ...
GHOST RIDER 46 by Terry Trowell, published by Atlas Publications in May 1956 (estimated). Terry Trowell was the creator for the majority of the run of this comic, taking over from J Morath from issue 6 and continuing until the final issue, 57. The issue also ...
TORNADO COMICS was an anthology comic published by the Offset Printing Company in 1944. It contains three features: LOFTY REGAN, THE ACE OF CLUBS by Jim Colt, THE ADVENTURES OF SAM BRIGGS, SHIP’S BOY by J Gilmour, and BOBBY & BETTY by Noel Cook, as well ...
JOHNNY JOHNSON – TRIUMPH OVER TOKIO by John Parkinson, published by RDR Publications in 1946 (estimated). RDR only published three comics, all featuring the former fighter pilot, Johnny Johnson. As they were all essentially self-published as one-shots, ...
CARL DANE – GANGSTER GUNS by Hal English was published by Cane Publications in 1946 (probably!). Carl Dane is a private detective in the hard-boiled and noir traditions (the comic is published in that period). Hal English was a regular contributor to early ...
RANGERS COMICS 83 is an anthology comic published by Action Comics published in October 1957 (estimated). It contains three stories, two of which are by Len Holland. The first story is unsigned, but is in a style similar to Holland’s so it may be a single-creator ...
MURDER IN THE NIGHT was one of those double-featured comics published by the Offset Printing Company, in this case in July 1945 (estimated). The two features are RED STEEL by Hal English and SHADO McGRAW by Will Donald. The different art styles of English and Donald ...
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