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Date Unknown | Lang: English (en)
Uploaded new by Downunder Dan
File size 15.8mb consisting of 24 pages | Format: EBook
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NotesTRUE NAVY COMBAT 3 featuring ‘Atlantic Convoy’ by Virgil Reilly, published by Approved Publications in September 1955 (unusually for Australian comics, the date is published on the cover). Or is it? This scan was found online (at Pikitapress.com) and appears to have been published in ‘Sea Battles Giant Comic No.2’, which is not listed anywhere I’ve looked as an Australian comic. Pikita is a New Zealand website, so it may have been printed in NZ. The Australian version is the same story, and the scan is in better condition than the Australian comic I’ve seen – and the scan used has the cover of a large 300 page reprint called ‘Great Comics Book’, so it’s not even from the original book. This matching of a cover to one story from that anthology makes a whole comic that exists in the real world.
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   By The Australian Panther
One of the best War comics I have ever seen. The artist really manages to visualize the action and the tension. The artist is very good but this work doesn't look like Virgil Riley. If it is, it's either very early or he's deliberately adopting another style to tell the story. But, the upload features two copies of the book, the second one with pages out of order, and the last two pages are missing from the first copy and are mixed in with the second copy. Also, not sure I could find page #49. Thanks anyway, Dan!
   By Downunder Dan
There's only one story here, but I somehow got some of the pages in the wrong spot and backwards. Using the page numbers in the navigation bar, the correct reading order is page 1 (cover), followed by pages 7 to 24 in order, then the rest are 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2. It may look like two stories because the title appears on the first and last pages when correctly arranged. I'll re-up this in the correct order (sorry to the site admin!)
   By Downunder Dan
The other issue is the attribution to Virgil Reilly. I don't pluck these out of the air. Pikitia Press (where I found this scan) says it's Virgil Reilly. AusReprints says the same. John Ryan (in 'Panel to Panel') talks about Reilly's work, including how he drew naval war stories, including in the 'Comics Library' series which mostly ran with three revolving sub-titles - 'Navy Combat', 'Fighting Forces' and 'Rocket Squadron' (Navy Combat was Australian, the other two reprinted American comics). And Kevin Patrick in his 'Comics Down Under' blog similarly refers to his work on naval war stories, including 4 issues of 'Navy Combat' (which I originally thought was the title of the comic, until I spotter the smaller 'True'). It's possible someone got it wrong and the rest just repeated it - wouldn't be the first time. But, to my eye, the style of art in this story looks like Reilly's work on 'Silver Flash'.
   By jimpage
Wonderful art. Like Carmine Infantino inking Russ Heath!
   By Comic Book Plus Bot
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