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| This title was published in Auckland, New Zealand but I think the contents, or some of them, were originally from Gerald G. Swan comics. There was no Supreme Feature title from Swan as far as I know. It's the strips that have that Swan "look", particularly Tiger Darrell.
Standish Steele has that curious, peculiarly British, layout that is half balloon strip and half text strip.
Great. Thank you. |
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| I'm pretty sure this was all NZ created material by HW Bennett an Australian cartoonist but longtime NZ resident. He was very influenced by UK comics, once writing to a paper to praise them and decry lurid US comics. |
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| Interesting to read this – almost certainly the first NZ comic I have ever read!
Definitely has an early English feel to it with the art secondary but still not bad. Tiger Darrell was my favourite – but take a tip from me and never try to prop open a crocodile’s mouth with a bent stick (sorry, can’t shake off the habit of having once been a safety officer) |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | Price: 6d [0-0-6 NZP] | Pages: 4 |
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| Cover | Robot Bombs |
| Featuring | Standish Steele |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Military |
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| Text Story | Hurricane Island (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Waldo Jax | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Featuring | Hiram S. Q. Wintergreen |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Fatty and Flip Try to Pull a Smart One |
| Featuring | Fatty and Flip |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Comic Story | Our Two Saucy Salts Practise the Hula in the Tropics (1 page) |
| Featuring | Barnacle Bill and the Bosun |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Cannibal Trail (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Tiger Darrell |
| Content | Genre: Jungle |
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| Text Story | Win or Lose (1.33 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Digby Yates | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Sports |
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| Text Article | When Nelson Fought a Bear |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | It's a Fact |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Text Story | Breaking the Black Market (1.5 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
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| Featuring | It's a Fact |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Nature |
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| Text Article | Churchill: The Man of the Hour (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Fighters for Freedom |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: Winston Churchill |
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| Comic Story | Our Enterprising Pal Goes in for a Spot of Plumbing (1 page) |
| Featuring | Jobless Jimmy |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On back cover. |
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