Pikitia Press

girlmountain:

“MERRY CHRISTMAS”.

Real Adventure Comics

Liberty Comics #7 - New Zealand published reprint of Australian material

Dr Evil featured on the cover does not actually appear in the comic.

Contents:

Inspector Dean & the Dancing Clown - not credited

Greg Bartlett, Linesman illustrated byBruce Cousin 

PD4967 illustrated byCarl Lyon

Barty Malone, Taxi Driver illustrated byCarl Lyon

Barbara & the Water Baby illustrated byFrank Jessup

Dabs the Inventor, & Jonesy - one-pagers byRon Broadley

The Legion of Space published by Invincible Press circa 1945

Colonial edition of English comic paper Comic-Life. More pages here.

Royce Bradford’s Cole Steele #4

Yaroslav (Larry) Horak’s Jet Fury #27. Horak migrated to Sydney, Australia from Harbin, Manchuria post World War Two and illustrated many Australian comics before moving to England where he was a prominent newspaper illustrator. Horak was most commonly recognised for working on the James Bond newspaper strip, illustrating 33 adventures between 1966 and 1984.

Australian edition of American newspaper strip Brick Bradford #15

Australian issue of Supercomic series #9 Flash Gordon retitled Speed Gordon to avoid a negative connotation of the word “Flash”^. At the time, the predominant meaning of “flash” was “showy”, connoting dishonesty.

Jet Black #9 by Terry Trowell, Kevin Patrick wrote about Trowell’s career here.