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| Excellent choice, Narf! Thanks for sharing, Cheers, bowers |
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| This looks to be Australian, as opposed to British. But there is no publisher listed. |
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| Pango was an Australian 1960s comic book, drawn by cartoonist,Gerald Carr, who also created "Vixen" , "Brainmaster", "Firefang", and "Shock Raider", and "Vampire!". He also worked some on "Devil Doone", and created and drew the syndicated comic strip, "Brigette". |
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| Well chaps, this edition of Pango is a British publication, published by Mundail Press of London (although I think that is a mis-spelling and it should read Mundial) and distributed by L.Miller. All as shown in the indicia. The 6d price is right for the time. It is a reprint of a French strip, but I can't find anything about the French original.
Narf is, of course, quite correct in placing this in the UK section. |
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| But the artist was listed as Gerald Carr, an Australian. And the book, itself, looks, to me, like an Australian issue. Were there 60 issues of "Pango"? I find that difficult to believe. I think this was a series that issued many different titles. I think The Aussies put no publisher information, no address, no date, much more often than UK publications.
However, AusReprints.net.au has no entry for it. And it also has no entries for Captain Tornado, Sergeant O'Brien, or Zorro, advertised as also being issued in this series.
But now I've just noticed that the artist signature on the panels looks like "Roubinet". And, in the text, the author reveals that Pango says he is from France (which seems to go well with the French-looking signature). And Lambik's Comiclopedia lists Zorro as having been drawn by Maxime Roubinet for a French publisher.
The spelling in the narratives and dialogues is British (possibly also Australian). So, Pango may have been printed in France first, and reprinted in The UK. But why does it have no publisher info, no address, no dates. Could it be a bootlegged (illegal) unauthorised issue? |
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| Gerald Carr's name on this book is cuiriouis. I have never seen a copy and it would have to have been late 40's or early 50's. He as born in 1944 so surely would have been too young. Most on-line sources give 1968 as his first comic work.
[He had his first comic strip, Brigette, published in Go-Set magazine,[2] between October 1968 and May 1969.]
I think there was a lot more work done by Carr that is currently unlisted. His name is very familiar to me.
This, from Wikipedia, is more interesting, :-
[He later moved to Sydney, where he entered into the comic book industry, working for Walter Grainger Publications, which were the Australian distributors of the Disney line of comics, as a letterist (the imported comics were using Italian artwork but required English text).]
I have never seen any of these, [Unless the italian comics wer repints of the Dell comics] and would love to - if the info is correct. |
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| I have since found out that Frenchman, Maxime Roubinet drew "Pango" (Robin) for Mensuel Publications, in France in 1952-53, for Zorro Magazine. And he also drew the other three strips that are advertised in that book, which is definitely a British issue, collecting strips by Roubinet from different publishers. |
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