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 strips of the same name for the first eight issues (some sources say longer). With issue nine, the comic was retitled Brenda (with a star symbol accompanying the name, the retitling said to be a way of avoiding trademark issues), and featuring all-new, all-Australian stories in the style of the Brenda Starr comic strip. This allowed the licence to publish an ongoing periodical to be used, met Australian-content production requirements, and removed the cost of paying for the American comic strip intellectual property. (For those unfamiliar with post-war restrictions in Australia, new periodicals weren’t being licenced and many publishers were producing one-off publications to get new material to the newsstands.) Yaroslav Horak was the main creator of Brenda, though some others contributed individual issues. There is more information about this book at the bottom of the page
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Yaroslav Horak was born in China to a Czech father and a Russian mother. Following the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the Horaks fled the violence and eventually arrived in Australia, where they stayed. Yaroslav completed his education and went on to study art at Sydney Technical College (as did a number of other comic creators), before he began working as a cartoonist. One of his earliest publishers expressed concerns about how the readers would respond to the name 'Yaroslav', and imposed the pen name 'Larry Horak' on him. Despite hating this name, Yaroslav worked under it for years, eventually changing it to just 'Horak' and then his actual name. Horak worked on American-sourced characters and his own creations. His character, Jet Fury, was perhaps his best known Australian character. As the comics work started to dry up, he moved to London and continued creating comics, including a numbers of issues of War Picture Library and Battle Picture Library. And then he became the new artist on the James Bond newspaper strip, producing over 3000 daily strips. He returned to Australia to retire and live out his long life, passing away in 2020 aged 93. (For a more detailed overview of Yaroslav Horak's career, see the obituary by Australian comics historian Kevin Patrick at https:comicsdownunder.blogspot.com/2020/11/vale-yaroslav-horak-1927-2020.html )
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Price: 8d [0-0-8 AUP] | Pages: 24
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