[The Australian Panther]

I notice that there is no price on the front cover. Was it distributed some other way?

Link to the book: Roundup Budget of Fun and Adventure

[paw broon]

As soon as narf asked me to check this one out, I knew we were on a winner.  Never having seen or heard of the comic previously, it looked vaguely familiar. I have some questions out among British fans, who at the moment are equally in the dark.  But, this is connected to another comic we have, Meteor:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=27283
Doing some digging, I found this from Down The Tubes:-
"Thanks to comics expert Jeff Battista, we can now report the strip featured in the British title The RoundUp Budget of Fun and Adventure ? 1948 published by Mallard Features/The Children?s Press, based in Glasgow, featured in a post to the Facebook New Zealand Comics Group.

?Ginger? rubbed shoulders with cowboy stories such as ?Stryke Saunders?, ?Quicksilver, The Wonderman of the West? and ?Grant Ross, Circus Ace?.

Steve Holland, who runs the brilliant Bear Alley web site, tells us The Children?s Press was an imprint of Glasgow-based Collins, and used on many children?s books. They produced half a dozen comics in 1947-48, almost all produced by McCail?s Mallard Features"
As the comic was published a year before I was born, there's a good reason right there why I was unaware of it, despite it being a Scottish publication. And it would appear the Mallard Features/The Childrens Press published a few more titles.  Why there is no price on either of the titles we have is a mystery.
As with Valentines small comics range about which we know very little, this is another puzzle. 
The Richard(s) signature is driving me crazy.  I can't work out who it is.  I've asked a colleague with more info than I have to have a look at it.