[Downunder Dan]

This week's upload from Downunder is...

Color Climax Comic 13

Only one Australian story, the rest of the comic is American reprints.

[crashryan]

As always, thanks for all the Australian goodies you post. During my seventy-mumble-mumble years I've only seen three Australian comics (reprints of Mel Graff X-9 strips) in circulation in the US. You've opened my eyes to a world of wonders.

Something about these Color Comics catches my eye. I don't know how to describe it exactly but the panels seem..."roomier" maybe. As if the page size is larger than the typical Golden Age American comic (about 7x10 inches) but with the same 5 to 6 panels per page so that individual panels are larger too. Am I imagining things?

Anyway, the color printing is rather good and "Peter Fury" is a handsome job.

[paw broon]

Australian comics come in many different sizes.  I'm late posting this as I was searching for the Aus. copy of Manhunter that I uploaded a few years ago, but can't find it anywhere on site.
The point was that the Manhunter series (Pyramid publications) was slightly taller than a '70's DC. Then the Australian reprints of The Avenger were taller still at 11 inches by 71/2 inches wide.  But Doll Man was same height and a bit narrower than Avenger.
Original Australian comics came in different sizes, some early were landscape and even the same title could vary in size as the run went on.  Something to do with what paper was available.
Actually, of all the comics producing countries, excluding Japan 'cos I don't know enough about their industry, The USA seems to be the one to have stuck to roughly the same size over the decades.

[Downunder Dan]

Australian comics do come in many sizes, and that includes variations of height and width of the pages. Examples of some unusual ones are US reprints, which I generally don't scan as the original printing is a better choice. Some examples, though, are comics in a digest size (the early issues of Little Trimmer and the Cobra Woman, for example) and are about half the size of most other comics. There are even smaller ones, like Star Pocket Comics, that are literally pocket-sized, maybe half the size of a digest comic, and consequently have a small number of panels per page. Regardless of size, page count or even if they have colour printing, the comics cost the same with rare exceptions.

[Downunder Dan]

This week's upload from downunder is...

Kokey Koala and His Magic Button #54

[Robb_K]

This week's upload from downunder is...

Kokey Koala and His Magic Button #54

Looking forward to it, as it is one that I don't even have its cover, let alone, the complete book.

[Downunder Dan]

Back to the size of Australian comics (mentioned by crashryan and paw broon above), the comic I uploaded this week is a case in point: issue 54 is a standard size, portrait-oriented issue. When Kokey Koala first appeared in 1948, it was a 'magazine'-sized publication, taller and wider than a standard-sized comic (which, as paw mentioned, isn't 100% standard due to limited paper supplies in war and post-war times). I think it continued in this form for the first five (unnumbered) issues. I think then, for issues 6 to 10, it is standard-sized, portrait oriented. With issue 11, it shifted to standard-sized, landscape-oriented style, and continued in that form to #28 (I think!). Then back to standard-sided, portrait oriented - and stays that way for the rest of the run. Caveat emptor: there's no complete list of all issues showing contents, in some cases there's only the cover. The points where I say the format changed may actually be slightly different!

[Downunder Dan]

This week's upload from Downuder is...

The Adventures of Devil Doone #7

It features five adventures of Devil Doone, reprinted from Man Junior magazine. There's also a one-page gag strip. Nit included is an eight-page Zatara story, as it's a DC character.

[Downunder Dan]

This week's upload from Downunder is...

Grey Domino #5

I assume he has a double-layer of disguise: he wears a grey domino mask under the sack-style hood that is generally visible.

[Downunder Dan]

This week's upload from Downunder is...

The Bosun and Choclit Funnies #2

Apologies for missing last week, but the small size of the comic in question (it is literally pocket size) and other tasks meant it became impossible to do it justice in the time available. I'll keep working on it and will publish it sometime in the future.