[Downunder Dan]

As it appears the Grey Domino managed to run for a healthy 63 issues, it was a popular title and more will be uploaded here in due course. But I've scanned an issue of a different Terry Trowell character that'll be up in the next few weeks, before any more Grey Domino.

[Downunder Dan]

This week: two comics I hadn't heard of, but are good!

Man Out of Space is a one-off science fiction story, which I would welcome a sequel to if one existed, and

Middy Malone's Magazine volume 2 #3, an anthology title which has two or three stories, which last a varying number of episodes. This issue has the pirate Middy Malone, and two science fiction stories (including one with the sub-heading 'The Man Out of Space', no relation to the comic with that title!)

Good art abounds! It's 1940s writing, but still not a bad couple of reads.

[Downunder Dan]

This week I've uploaded...

Invisible Avenger 4 where the story heads into outer space, and

Climax All Color Comic 1 with adventure stories by Hart Amos and Vernon Hayles in a rare example of Australian comics in colour

[Downunder Dan]

This week:

Who lives down in deepest, darkest Africa? Yes, but also the star of Yarmak #20

Have you missed Frank Johnson? It's time for New Big Hit Comics to break the drought

Includes two servings of Stanley Pitt!

[paw broon]

Once again Dan, so many thanks for these comics.  Always good to get an issue of Yarmak.

[Downunder Dan]

This week's comics from me:

Dr Mensana, the first appearance of arguably Australia's first super-powered hero.

Grand Comics, another 52 pages of adventure and humour assembled by Frank Johnson just for you (if you were around in 1945)

Dr Mensana looks a bit different as I used a different method of scanning due to the fragile condition of the comic

[Downunder Dan]

This week:

Another colour comic, titled The Cobra Woman. It actually contains two stories: 'Red' Steele in The Cobra Woman, and Shado McGraw in The One-Eyed Man.

And a slightly reconstructed comic: The Green Skeleton 4. It's a scanned reprint with two damaged pages replaced by single page scans foumd on the internet. I believe Green Skeleton is quite rare to find.

[The Australian Panther]

  I believe Green Skeleton is quite rare to find.

Looking forward to this one, Dan.
I believe FREW have been looking for a usable copy. 

[paw broon]

Thanks Dan. Green Skeleton, eh?  I've only heard of this title.  Great to have it.
I've ticked it in. Should be visible soon.

[paw broon]

After my previous post about The Green Skeleton, I started to realise there was something familiar about the character.  I've been digging in boxes and on shelves and found the "Grand Comic Album" which is a thickish, b&w album reprinting a number of old strips, incl. The Green Skeleton. The Fruit Machine Racket.
The album also contains what looks like another Australian strip, Kid Champion.
The publisher is listed as Murrays Sales & Service Company, 157/167, Pentonville Road. London - if anyone would care to pass this on to GCD who have a listing for the name but nothing else.
Contents are:- Green Skeleton; Kid Eternity; Anthrop; 1 page Archie O'Toole; Scoop Scott; 2 stories of Kid Champion; Big Brother.
As I no longer have a scanner, I'll see if anyone would like to help getting this story, and the album up on site.

[The Australian Panther]

Great find, Paw!

[Downunder Dan]

Be interesting to see what's in the album. Kid Champion is a boxing character, created by Jeff Wilkinson and published by Frew for 3 issues. I've not see any of his comics yet.

It's possible we'll end up with 3 issues of Green Skeleton (out of 4) depending on getting access to another reprint held in a rare books collection in a university library in Melbourne. I don't have a handle on the rules around access and I have no current plans to go to Melbourne!

[Downunder Dan]

This week's uploads:

Another old favourite in the form of Crimson Comet #14 and

A different anthology, Dick Weston Popular Comics #2

[paw broon]

Should appear soon.  Thanks Dan

[Downunder Dan]

Thanks to whoever has rearranged the Australian and New Zealand section of the Comic Books part of the site. Being contrary, the comics I'm uploading this week go into the ungrouped section.

Jet Black 5 features the eponymous character, a racing driver and spy, from the mind and hands of Terry Trowell, creator of the Grey Domino

Talkie Comics, an anthology of stand-alone stories

[Downunder Dan]

I'm away from home all this week for a birthday-related break, so no scanning is taking place. But I have some scans on the go, so a couple of things that have a gift-like nature are being uploaded.

John Dixon's Catman is a favourite of mine, so the Catman story from Giant Size Phantom 19 (the original run, published in 1960). Generally, all issues in this run contain reprints of four comics. Issue 19 included a surprise new Catman story! This appears to be the story Dixon had started when he quit Catman to take up the opportunity of a daily newspaper strip. A very pleasant surprise!

The other is True Navy Combat 3, a comic I'd seen in a very poor state, but I'd found a scan of it online (at pikitapress.com), apparently from a New Zealand publisher. I added the Australian cover, and it's now a better version of the comic than I'd have got scanning it myself. A whole comic without any real work is a gift!

[Downunder Dan]

This week...

Noir-ish action with Flynn of the FBI 23 and

A very mixed bag of action and humour in Bonzer Comics - 'bonzer' is a colloquial Australian word meaning 'good' or even 'excellent'

[Downunder Dan]

Today, I have uploaded

Okaie, Master of the Jungle, an imaginative jungle adventure with dinosaurs and humans living side-by-side

Tim Valour 32, with a desert adventure and no dinosaurs!

[Downunder Dan]

Clearing some non-comics publications scans I've found online, both by cartoonists who also created comics. They are:

A Big Book of Australian Adventures by Syd Nicolls better known as the creator of Fatty Finn and Middy Malone.

The Witch's Ring by Frank Jessup. Jessup created a lot of low profile strips that were published by Frank Johnson.

Both are written for younger readers, and styled more like picture books for children rather than comics, so they'll be available in the Odds and Ends section of this site, under Children's Books.

[Downunder Dan]

This week's actual comics from me are:

Middy Malone in the Lost World an upscale special featuring Syd Nichol's pirate character

Little Trimmer 17 featuring Avian Tempest

[Downunder Dan]

It's one of those exciting weeks where there are new #1 issues available!

Captain Justice #1 - the first issue of the first series of this Monty Wedd wonder

Devil Doone #1 - a nice action character reminiscent of the Saint

[Downunder Dan]

This week: a return of a favourite, and a mysterious comic that is the only work of a cartoonist published by someone who didn't publish anything else - but it's about Ned Kelly!

The Crimson Comet Comic #16 by Albert De Vine

The Kelly Gang Rides by Lucky Doolan

[Downunder Dan]

This week: Two Australian comics and a bonus UK comic

Jeremy Blade is the only comic published by Wirrawee, and is a historical adventure on the high seas.

Steel Barr and the Phantom Man 4 featuring two not-particularly-super-powered adventurers, District Commissioner Steel Barr, and Cha Chapman, the Phantom of the East

And the bonus: Steve Samson 13, which will be in the UK Comics section under L Miller & Son. Having found this comic in a collection of Australian comics, I check with paw broon on whether it should be scanned. He said yes, so it'll be available soon

[Downunder Dan]

I've decided to change how I approach these uploads - I've been trying to upload a single character book and an anthology each week. Because of the attractiveness of things I've never heard of means the titles that already have issues uploaded here are getting passed by. So I'll be looking to upload more issues of titles already here as well as the shiny ones I've never heard of - one old and one new each week.

This week I've uploaded The Phantom Ranger #87 and Speck Ryan #1.

I've also got a bonus non-comic upload as well: The Brodie Mack Method preliminary instructions, over in the Odds and Ends part of the site. Sadly, its lacking the lesson charts, which weren't with the booklet and I can't find online. Maybe they'll turn up some day

[Downunder Dan]

This weeks' comics are:

Punch Perkins of the Fighting Fleet #15 and

the anthology Premier 'magpie' Comics