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Yep, happy to help. It's nice to see Pitt getting some air time here. I was about to start a "series" on Australian artists in the GA in Australia thread too, so I might steal some images from here at some stage. (I was going to start with Virgil Reilly)

British weekly to British bi-weekly

Thanks Scrooge. There's at least one more. The middle daily on this page from WDC&S #9... ... is also the cover of #14 (which is one of the ones I don't have): While I'm here, here's another version of the rooster panel, this time on the front of a UK bi-weekly comic paper, repurposed as a WW2 exhortation.

Aussie dollar (a.k.a. Pacific peso) hit 67c yesterday.

Just got a nice book o' goodness in from Heritage. I pool my wins to amortise the postage cost, so there are 10 new books to show here. Here's the first of them, a WDC&S #10. I have 93/100 of the early issues. I don't have #1-5 but only need 14 and 18to have 6-100. I don't get the cover gag, but I really like these big thick early issues. 68 pages in this one, with a mix of daily strips and a quite long Silly Symphonies story. Here's Mickey Mouse being a rat to his mate Goofy: And here's a page from Silly Symphonies, with a decidedly more carnivorous Big Bad Wolf than in later years! The rhyming dialogue here was a bit of thing in Disney stories of the time. It worked OK here, but I think it was better in some of the Bucky Bug stories in later years

@Scrooge: does this one correspond to a daily as well? If so I'd love to see it, because I don't really get the cover gag...

I'm going to win.

Hot woman with cold gun to smoking woman with smoking gun

I had to look that one up. I see what you mean...

Me am hating your terrible Bizarro book.

That would probably depend on whether the FC has the staple placement visible. I think that's the main way that married covers get spotted, due to the variability of the location.

Green underwater gals to green underwater dude

Spicy pulps, you said.

Hands on head to hands on head

I keep noticing sweaty characters now.

I think the guy at the left of the onlookers is sweating. If not it's a fair bet that they guy in the chair is!

I fear I have created an international market for these, and with our $ slipping against the greenback, I hereby apologise to Australian collectors. Meanwhile, back on the subject of Virgil Reilly, artist and writer on Silver Flash. Given the scratchy nature of most of his comic work, I was surprised to find this example of "GGA" recently: It's true that there are occasional examples of good draftmanship in his comics, but it seems that he put a fair bit more time into his advertising commissions. His "Virgil girls" were a big thing in the 1930s. A few splash panels of that quality would be a fine thing! I think I'll try to find a few more for an entry in the GA in Australia thread.

My first thought was Cole too. And I wish I could get into the mindset that the books I own are better than the ones I don't, but I'm not there yet...

Great stuff '48. The voodoo cover is great - I don't recall seeing that before.