John Dixon's Tim Valour #29
Paul Wheelahan's The Panther.
Australian Woman's Weekly ads for Syd Nicholls' and Stan Clements' Fatty Finn's Weekly, the first weekly Australian comic launched 20 May 1934.
Keith Chatto covers (I Think...) for King Features characters Flash Gordon and Mandrake the Magician.
Australian publisher Gredown covers from their prolific mid 70's output. Really these should have been ongoing series that are still published to this day.
Biggles comics created in Australia initially by John Dixon and subsequently by Albert De Vine were reprinted in England by Stratos Publications Ltd during the 1950's. These reprints of the quintessentially English character of Biggles were packaged into 68 page collections with John Dixon's original Australian creations Tim Valour and The Crimson Comet filling up the pages alongside another of Albert De Vine's Australian comics works Gimlet who was also created by Biggles creator W. E Johns.
Above: Maurice Bramley cover for In Battle Action No. 72
Below: Peter Chapman's Sir Falcon.
Below: John Dixon's Crimson Comic. When I was about eight years I bought a Crimson Comet comic from a carboot in a muddy paddock at a flea market in provincial New Zealand. Unbelievably one hundred and fifteen years later I still have that comic.
Every day I wake up and wonder is this the day Nat Karmichael announces he'll be publishing the complete Tim Valour by John Dixon? A phone book collection of these tight adventure stories would be a gift to mankind...
These King Size Comic anthologies have stunning covers by an unknown artist. They chiefly contain American reprints but invariably would have an Australian comic like Stan and Reg Pitt's Silver Starr. A smarter person than me like Kevin Patrick or Daniel Best could have written about these in a smarter way.
The Adventures of Flash Cain No. 3 collects comics from Cavalcade magazine by Phil Belbin, cover by Devil Doone mainstay artist Hart Amos.
Even when guesting in other heroes comics the Phantom Ranger could oddly be relied upon to find a Mexican to punch in the face.
Kent Blake of the Secret Service #18? There seventeen issues before this one? Nat, while you're assembling that Tim Valour phone book can I please also get an inch thick collection of Monty Wedd's Kent Blake comics?
John's friend and publisher Nat Karmichael has posted on FB of John's passing. Sincere condolences to John's family and friends.
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