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Australian & New Zealand Comics
The Adventures of Captain Havoc and The Phantom Knight
Australian series which was distributed by Miller in the U.K. As you can't feel the comic, the cover and interiors are, unlike American comics, newsprint - matt not glossy.
Australian series reprinted in New Zealand by Times Printing, Auckland. Featuring mainly reprints from American comics plus locally created? fillers.
It seems the series was also reprinted in the UK by Popular.
Australian superhero series featuring Ralph Rivers, private eye and sometime government agent, who is surgically altered to have huge wings and dons the costume of The Crimson Comet to fight crime.
Australian. The title started off as a landscape format in an attempt to make readers think this was a reprint of American or British newspaper strips, which were popular.
Jet Fury and his mystery plane, The Comet, fights crime. Art by Larry Horak.
JET STARR is by Yaroslav Horak, who, after a move to England a decade later, became best known for his work on the newspaper comic strip JAMES BOND.
STARR evolved from the American comic SKYMAN, that appeared in comic books from Columbia. beginning with Big Shot Comics #1 in 1940. SKYMAN was a goggled high tech, crime fighting aviator created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Ogden Whitney. See https://www.comics.org/issue/1180/cover/4/
Horak then created a copycat character, also named SKYMAN, in the 40s for the Australian ACTION COMICS from Leisure Productions. See https://tinyurl.com/59ekcha2
When the artist moved over to Pyramid. the feature was christened as the more famous JET FURY. Researcher John Ryan only says "For Pyramid, Horak created a costumed hero, Jet Fury, who looked like his Skyman character."
Supreme Feature Comic is considered to be the longest running original New Zealand comic with 33 known issues in existence. Artists are not credited although the bulk of the comic is the work of Harry (Henry) William Bennett, an Australian cartoonist. Bennett moved to New Zealand at an early age and commenced his cartooning career as a teenager contributing cartoons to the Christchurch Spectator during the 1920's. After this series a relaunch of the comic under the title New Supreme Feature Comic occurred. Little is known of Henry Bennett's life after these which comic historian Tim Bollinger has dated as being produced until 1947.
Information courtesy of Ernesto.
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