[Robb_K]

Is "The Brass Vulture" a Noir-style mystery, with a similar-style plot to "The Maltese Falcon"?

I think the idea of a bird statuette arises from the Falcon, but this is a real genre blender with a father and son explorer team, a hoarding hermit and his gun wielding ape offsider, and some treasure smuggling gangsters, set on a perilous jungle island. As a creator, Will Donald is creative and unpredictable in the elements he uses in his stories, which I enjoy as the story twists and turns - but it is a story, not a collection of disparate elements.

I wonder if Donald was a film noir and Humphry Bogart fan?   This sounds a little like he started with a blend of "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Treasure of Sierra Madre", and added a few key elements to form a new story.  I'm looking forward to reading it.

[The Australian Panther]

If you look at Humphrey Bogart's hat and jacket in 'Treasure of Sierra Madre' - Indiana Jones!
The way under-appreciated writer, Frank Gruber wrote, 'The Etruscan Bull' a definite homage to the Maltese Falcon. Damn good book too!
Also, in the same vein, based on Chandler's novel "The High Window," The Brasher Doubloon (1947) is the second time this classic was brought to the screen.
, the Brasher Doubloon, in the same Vein inspired not one but two films.
The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNJSGYeUivU

Time to Kill (1942) Lloyd Nolan, Heather Angel, Doris Merrick | Full Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNnrbl1gKss

enjoy!

[Downunder Dan]

This week, from a land downunder...

New - The Lone Wolf 5 from Keith Chatto, another western comic. Great art here, as Chatto's earlier style uses hatching to lend a more 3D effect than his later work

Expansion - Crimson Comet 53, a welcome return of both this hero after a long break since I had any to upload, and also under the hand of his creator, John Dixon. Two stories, one science fiction and the other a detective story. I was luck to find and buy some Aussie originals at less than the usual prices, and I'll be uploading these over the forthcoming months alongside my usual library sourced comics

[Downunder Dan]

This week -

NEW - Frogman 1 is a reprint of original Maurice Bramley stories that were published alongside reprints primarily from US comics by Hillman. These war stories aren't featuring ongoing characters, and so all stand alone.

ENHANCEMENT - Action Comic 17 is another book with a Len Lawson lead. Late last year, a Comic Book Plus reader in his 90s requested more of these stories, favourites from his youth, saying that the stories themselves did not do anyone any harm. I guess this marks me out as a bit of a softy, but I can't see a problem is responding to a request from an elderly man. This issue also contains an early story by Yaroslav Horak, which it would be a pity to not include.

[Downunder Dan]

This week:

NEW - The Bosun and Choclit Funnies #38

EXTENSION - Tim Valour 24 (second series)

[Downunder Dan]

This week...

NEW - The Purple People Eater

EXPANSION - Supreme Feature-Comic #4

A bit different this week. The Purple People Eater was discussed over six months ago, but I had issues with scanning the book. I recently acquired a coverless copy of the comic, which resolved the scanning problems (there's a difference between scanning something you own and something you don't), so I had to supplement the scan of my copy with scans of four cover pages that I'd made a long time ago to give us the whole thing.

The other is most recent scan I've made. I bumped it up the list because I rarely see a comic printed in New Zealand, and as there are two countries' comics on this area of the site, I figured it's good to increase the representation of the smaller one. And I thought a very old-fashioned type of comic by comparison to an off-the-wall surrealistic one would be a good mix.

See you in the comments!

[Downunder Dan]

This week's uploads:

NEW - Dauntless 'magpie' Comics is another Frank Johnson anthology. This one shares a number of ongoing series with the Exciting 'magpie' Comics and appears to be published later.

EXTENSION - The Panther #45 this time featuring a foe called the Hawk Man (no relation to the DC Comics hero).

BONUS - Refuge! is a pamphlet supporting the settlement of European refugees in Australia, issued at the start of World War II. The graphics are believed to be the work of comic strip artist Keith Martin, who has yet to be featured here at Comic Book Plus

[Downunder Dan]

This week's uploads:

NEW - Army #4, a war story anthology by Moira Bertram. I've been wanting add more from Moira, but this wasn't what I was expecting it to be.

EXPANSION - El Lobo, the Man from Nowhere #16