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[paw broon]

Thanks to DownunderDan, we have information and now a scan of a Kirby comic that, despite a lot of research by Kirby experts, Atlas experts and my staying up late attempts, is seriously obscure and does not appear to have been published in N. America.  It could be an English language translation of an Italian comic for the Australian market.  Or perhaps the other way round, but Italian first is favourite right now.  I need our members to start trying to check all this, pretty please!
DownunderDan found and passed on the information on the book, for which many thanks. I looked at all his work and checked on "certain" sites, finally finding a scan. 
Hope you enjoy it:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=88060

[paw broon]

Having remembered how to use mass upload, and with many thanks to Mr Tweedy, we now have  a number of issues of the Pearson pocket library, Picture Romance Library from1956
Nice wee comics.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3711
Also, again many thanks to Mr Tweedy, there are new issues of Emergency Ward 10, Highway Patrol, Dixon of Dock Green and 1 issue of the rarer Film Picture Stories, all Pearson pocket libraries.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3472
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3470
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=88218
As the numbering on Pearson pocket libraries is weird and wonderful - some titles are a part of TV Picture Stories and also under their own listing - I've kept Emergency Ward 10 together, for instance.  At some point there will need to be a Pearson's section with all the titles under one roof, but right now for me it's a lot of work which I don't fancy.  If anyone fancies a go, please do

[MarkWarner]

Ok I will

[paw broon]

Thanks Mark.  Order now reigns.
Just to mess with your work, thanks to Mr Tweedy reminding me that there were 2 other issues of Film Picture Library, I created a new section, uploaded the 2 I'd missed and moved the 3rd to the new section.  You'll find them here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3713
This short run is also known as Film Picture series.  The info in the indicia changes from FPL to FPS. Another wrinkle in Pearson's i/ds
Also, #1 of Super Detective Library, The Saint:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=88225

[paw broon]

On our Buck Ryan page, here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3358
and courtesy of Chimp Twist, I'm uploading alternative compilations of the early stories.  First 5 up now.  These are all single tier per page files and very nice too.
The original, upright files I scanned a few years ago were from photocopied multi-tier pages which I bought from ADCCC, and that's not the best way to present newspaper strips, imo.  So these Chimp Twist files are just the ticket.

[paw broon]

Thanks to Mr Tweedy, we now have Super Detective Library # 43 and 162 - Meet Captain Dack with art by James Holdaway and Buck Ryan with art by Jack Monk.
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=88237
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=88240
Plus more of Chimp Twist's alternative Buck Ryan comps.
https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3358

[crashryan]

The first two links are the same.

EDIT: Sorry, hit send before finishing the message. The proper link for Captain Dack is

https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=88237

Thanks for posting this. Interesting to see early Holdaway. For those (like me) who wonder just who Captain Dack is, I found a "bio" at the link below. It seems Dack was created in 1933 by Peter Meriton, writing as John Hunter, for the Thriller story papers. Later he was a repeating guest star in Sexton Blake stories. Holdaway has given Dack extensive corrective surgery. He's described in the papers as "a  huge man, tall and broad, with 'a heavy square face lit up by eyes in which saturnine laughter and considerable cunning shared the honours.' He has giant hands attached to monstrous wrists, and a voice that has shouted down hurricanes."



http://www.mark-hodder.com/blakiana/dack.html

[paw broon]

Thanks crash.  Should be ok now.

[paw broon]

Seems to me there is some resemblance to Tug Transom. But a couple of other adventurers could fit versions of that description - Bulldog Drummond and Patrick Dawlish (John Creasey writing as Gordon Ashe)
Dawlish is described as:-
"Dawlish was shown as a huge man with a group of hearty, hard-hitting friends, based on the 'Bulldog Drummond' tradition. Drawn by chance into a vicious series of crimes, he decided to solve them himself"