[The Australian Panther]

'We wear short shorts!'
Sheb Wooley "The Purple People Eater" (Official Video)
https:www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jV-E09efRE&ab_channel=AllSeasonsMusic
What were these guys on? Oh, yeah, 'TEQUILA!'
How did they get that on the air in 1957?
Just glad that they did.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, ( I'm used to it.) but is not 'Jet Black' an ink colour?

Thanks Dan!

Link to the comment: Jet Black 5

[Downunder Dan]

The Purple People Eater is definitely on my list of comics to find and scan!

[Robb_K]

The Purple People Eater is definitely on my list of comics to find and scan!

From the looks of that front cover, I think I would love to read that comic book.  When was it issued?  2 Shillings was a lot!  My guess is that it was issued some time during the mid 1960s ('64-'66?), and must have been a giant comic.  I don't remember seeing that cover in "From Sunbeams To Sunset".  It certainly is memorable.  Irreverent comedy Sci-Fi......... I'm all for it!!!   

[Downunder Dan]

From the looks of that front cover, I think I would love to read that comic book.  When was it issued?  2 Shillings was a lot!  My guess is that it was issued some time during the mid 1960s ('64-'66?), and must have been a giant comic.  I don't remember seeing that cover in "From Sunbeams To Sunset".  It certainly is memorable.  Irreverent comedy Sci-Fi......... I'm all for it!!!   

Published in 1858, the year the song was released (and was number 1 on the Australian charts, that September). That's before I was born, but the song continued to haunt the airwaves for years afterwards. It's 32 pages long, including two interior pages in colour (or so I read at AusReprints.net)

[Robb_K]

From the looks of that front cover, I think I would love to read that comic book.  When was it issued?  2 Shillings was a lot!  My guess is that it was issued some time during the mid 1960s ('64-'66?), and must have been a giant comic.  I don't remember seeing that cover in "From Sunbeams To Sunset".  It certainly is memorable.  Irreverent comedy Sci-Fi......... I'm all for it!!!   

Published in 1958, the year the song was released (and was number 1 on the Australian charts, that September). That's before I was born, but the song continued to haunt the airwaves for years afterwards. It's 32 pages long, including two interior pages in colour (or so I read at AusReprints.net)

Yes, I remember when the song came out in summer 1958 in Canada.  Only 32 pages!  And only the (outer) covers and 2 inside pages (probably the inside cover pages) in colour.... makes me wonder why this book was so expensive.  i seem to remember that most of the Australian 30-32 page comic books I've seen from 1958 cost 9d, or 1 Shilling, at most.

[Downunder Dan]

Yes, I remember when the song came out in summer 1958 in Canada.  Only 32 pages!  And only the (outer) covers and 2 inside pages (probably the inside cover pages) in colour.... makes me wonder why this book was so expensive.  i seem to remember that most of the Australian 30-32 page comic books I've seen from 1958 cost 9d, or 1 Shilling, at most.

Your suggestion of which two pages are in colour sounds sensible, but the AusReprints site says 'The story includes a full page splash page as part of the story every few pages. Pages 7 and 23, both full page drawings, are in colour.' I'd have thought they'd be on the same sheet, but that doesn't work with those pages. I'm having a break from scanning so can't order it up to check. (I've got a few scanned issues up my sleeve, so no break in uploading!) So the mystery will have to wait for a resolution.

[Robb_K]

Yes, I remember when the song came out in summer 1958 in Canada.  Only 32 pages!  And only the (outer) covers and 2 inside pages (probably the inside cover pages) in colour.... makes me wonder why this book was so expensive.  i seem to remember that most of the Australian 30-32 page comic books I've seen from 1958 cost 9d, or 1 Shilling, at most.

Your suggestion of which two pages are in colour sounds sensible, but the AusReprints site says 'The story includes a full page splash page as part of the story every few pages. Pages 7 and 23, both full page drawings, are in colour.' I'd have thought they'd be on the same sheet, but that doesn't work with those pages. I'm having a break from scanning so can't order it up to check. (I've got a few scanned issues up my sleeve, so no break in uploading!) So the mystery will have to wait for a resolution.

I look forward to your obtaining scans of this book, and uploading it on CB+: and I also look forward to finding out why the publisher allowed the extra cost to have the two extra colour splash-panel whole unpaired, unrelated pages printed, and whether or not TGHAT extra cost drove the books purchase price from 1 Shilling up to 2 shillings (an exhorbitant price in 1958, for a conventional sized (32-page) Australian comic book (that normally would have been the price of a Giant (60-80 page0) comic book).