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Australian & New Zealand Comics
Date Unknown | Lang: English (en)
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NotesEXCITING ‘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 Cook, and CRASH McKANE by Rhys Williams, with short humour pieces by Emile Mercier and Ron Broadley.
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   By Robb_K
I liked the build-up of the mystery in Bowyang Bill. But it just ended abruptly, with no narrative saying: "Continues in next issue." I hope that is an editorial error and it continued. Otherwise, I am disappointed, and think it's a much weaker story than I'd thought it was.
   By Downunder Dan
@Robb_K - during World War II, the Australian government banned the import of foreign printed material and stopped licencing Australian periodicals (the latter measure was to preserve paper). This lead to publishers going outside the rules and publishing one-shot items. For comics readers, this meant finding the next part of a continuing story was tricky. Bowyang Bill in The Mystery of Wombat Gully is a case in point: there were (at least) 6 parts, 4 of which appeared in standalone titles, and the last 2 of which appeared in the ongoing Gem Comics (after periodicals were again allowed to be registered). Often, the creators wrote a end of episode ending, such as the one that disappointed you, rather than a cliffhanger. At present, no other parts of this story are on this site. The good news is that, eventually, I should have all six parts uploaded here.
   By Robb_K
Thanks Dan for letting me know that you're eventually going to upload all six issues containing Bowyang Bill. I hope that will be within a couple years, as I'm just about 80 years old, and don't know how long I'll be around with a coherent mind. Keep up the good work, i've enjoyed all these GA Aussie comics that I didn't see in the 1940s and 1950s.
   By The Australian Panther
I suspect Emile Mercier was handing a backward compliment to this bloke, who wrote under Bill Bowyang and who he would have been well aware of. Alexander Vindex Vennard (1884–1947) https:adb.anu.edu.au/biography/vennard-alexander-vindex-8912 But to many of us, 'Bill Bowyang' is a more familiar term. Note:- Ben Bowyang https:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bowyang [Ben Bowyang was an Australian newspaper comic strip, first published in the Melbourne Herald on Saturday, 7 October 1933, created by the cartoonist Alex Gurney, that followed the misadventures of two archetypical Australian bushmen, Ben Bowyang and his mate, Bill Smith, of "Gunn's Gully": characters that first appeared in the humorous Herald columns written during the 1920s and 1930s by C. J. Dennis. ] [The strip was also drawn by Mick Armstrong, Keith Martin, Sir Lionel Lindsay, Alex McRae, and Peter Russell-Clarke. It ceased publication in 1979.] There were many collections of this strip and I hope, Dan, that you might be able to post some of them. What's a bowyang? ["When I was a boy the bowyang was worn by most bush-workers, and by labourers generally. It is never seen today. The bowyang — in case you do not know — is a strap worn just below the knee of the trousers. Its purpose was to take the drag from [the] braces or waist-belt, and to lift the trouser-ends well clear of the ground. And very comfortably it performed this service, too." ] cheers!
  
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