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NotesBUGSEY BEAR 29 is a funny animal anthology, largely made up of American reprints. New Century Press published this issue in May 1955 (estimated). This issue features a new Bugsey Bear story created by Max Yahl, an Australian cartoonist, because the publishers had run out of American-created stories featuring this character, but they had a comic book bearing his name. The other three stories are all reprints from various issues of Novelty Press’s Frisky Fables (full details in the comments below). Little is known about Max Yahl, but is work consists of funny animal and hillbilly humour stories.
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The reprints in Bugsey Bear #29 are ICICLE IKE from Frisky Fables vol.2 #11, BILL AND COO from Frisky Fables vol.3 #9, and NEDDY BEAR from Frisky Fables vol.4 #1. Scans of all these comics are available in the Novelty Press section of this site.
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MAX YAHL was born in 1930. In the 1950s he specialised in providing funny animal back-up strips. His short strips were published in a range of U.S reprints that were published by New Century Press. He went on to be the premier artist for Fraidy Cat (for Horwitz) and also drew strips for the Silver Jacket boys’ paper. Max died in 1974. Information from the book “From Sunbeams to Sunset” by Graeme Cliffe.
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I Find it interesting that New Century Publications decided to continue their Bugsey Bear Title in their Famous American Comics Series, even after US Dearfield Publishing's rights owner ran out of different Bugsey Bear stories to supply them, and hired Australian, Max Yahl, to draw up new "Bugsey Bearb" stories to feature in his own title books, to place together with 3 old "Frisky Fables" stories, still continuously supplied by the still currently active "Frisky Animals" title publisher, L.B. Cole's US Star Comics, while Dearfield had stopped production of new stories of ALL their titles and funny animal feature stories. I'm not sure if Australian Jubilee Publishing still had the rights to the "Frisky Animals comic book title in Australia. But, it seems strange to me to keep alive a moribund title with no related content to fill such books, but to pay to have new front covers and title character feature stories drawn and written, and then fill the rest of the book with unrelated material, when assuming they had the rights to L.B. Cole's Frisky Animals production and old (Novelty-produced) Frisky Fables production (still owned by Cole). Why didn't they just start a new line of L.B. Cole produced books called: "Neddy Bear", or "Pidgy Pigeon", or one of Cole's other character names, and fill the whole books with already drawn and never before published in Australia stories?
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Answers to Robb's questions may never be available. New Century Printing (a printing company that also published some of its items) went out of business in 1975. It published comics under its own logos (like the Famous American Comics one used on the cover of Bugsey Bear 29) between 1945 and 1960, though it continued to print comics into the 1970s. It is unknown whether any person who might know is still alive to answer.
  
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