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Date Unknown | Lang: English (en)
Uploaded new by Downunder Dan
File size 8.59mb consisting of 28 pages | Format: EBook
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NotesKID KOALA 4 by Reg Hicks was published by Wollumbin Press in 1948. While the comic Kid Koala has the appearance of a collection of newspaper strips, it doesn’t appear to have been published before the comic book appeared. Hicks did write and draw comic strips, including Tightrope Tim, which was published in the Sunbeams section of the Sydney Sunday Sun. It may be that Koala Kid was intended as a newspaper strip, but Hicks couldn’t find a publisher. He is credited with playing a significant role in popularising adventure comic strips in Australia through his work in the 1930s and 40s, with strips including Out of the Silence (an adaptation of the first Australian science fiction novel), Robinson Crusoe, and The Adventures of Larry Steele. He sometimes used the pseudonyms REG and Hix.
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   By Robb_K
Thanks, Dan, for uploading this rare old Australian Golden Age comic book. "Kokey Koala" started his long run in 1948, and ran through 1953. "Kid Koala" had been started by Hicks in 1943. There probably wasn't really room for 2 young children's comic book series about Koalas in the Australian comic book market at that time. And Kid Koala only lasted until 1948. I agree that "Kid Koala" probably wasn't an established newspaper strip. It doesn't have a very interesting or endearing lead character or series premise. Kid Koala is a lazy, incompetent, unclever, anthropomorphic, sentient animal, living alone in an otherwise completely Human society, losing EVERY job he starts, while trying to earn a living to house and feed himself. No surprise that that series failed to get picked up by a newspaper. Kokey, on the other hand, was interesting, at least to very young children, because his magic button that could take him on interesting adventures all over The World, and also bring him what he wanted. There were at least 4 28-page issues of this title, so, it seems that Reg Hicks drew quite a few sample pages for submitting to editors as strip samples, unless he drew some of them after getting signed to write and draw Kid Koala for Wollumbin Press.
  
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