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That strip doesn't appear to have run in Australian newspapers, at least as far as I can tell from the National Library's online search. Though I did find a piece that runs one strip, and has an anti-comic rant about it. This appeared in the Tribune on January 16 1952: And here's the offending strip: This wasn't a Wertham-style rant though. The Tribune was the newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia. It's an odd world when the communists and the conservative forces in society are united against a common foe - the obviously malign influence of comic books on would-be reactionaries and/or solid citizens! I'm not sure that the comic was 'drawn in Australia' as the paper says, though we saw way back in this thread that at least one issue had added local additions. Thanks Sean for getting me to look for the strip - this was an interesting find. I think I might also post it where a few more people might see it.

I have some bound volumes of copper age books I had made up, but no earlier. I do however have a couple of WDC&S liberated from bound volumes. Here's one. As near as I can tell this book was stitched in, but not trimmed or otherwise maltreated.

Guy on fire to octopus-guy on fire

Hand under deck to all hands on deck

Ghost #1 with a small piece missing from the bottom edge of the cover to Ghost #4 with a small piece missing from the bottom edge of the cover

Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei all have significant English speaking expatriate communities, and it seems that the Australian publisher got the rights to distribute Disney comics there in 1967, as evidenced by this WDC&S cover. The box appeared then and stayed until the run came to an end in 1978. Comics for the New Zealand market were also printed in Australia from time to time (though there were local firms in NZ too), so the NZ price appears here too.

Very nice. I wish I still had my 'purchased off the rack back in the day' Disney comics @onlyweaknesskryptonite!

One I still don't have. Nice.

Knife to throat to knife to throat

While it's sad that this great collection was broken up, I suspect it has found a number of appreciative homes, Here's the Australian part of Jeff's FH collection sitting peacefully in my living room.

And we shouldn't forget this particularly important contribution to comicdom. RIP Mr Willits.

Thanks for the recent input guys. Especially @creaturefan95 for posting that story. It saved me doing it. And, yes @1950's war comics, that Silver Flash cover is one of my favourites, though the series had some other beauts.

Menace from Mars to RZL from Mars (and Spirit substitute to Spirit)

I don't have 5,7,8,10,12,15 or 16

No probs - some cool books here, but not the SSS issues I was looking for.

I grade it "fantastic", but if you insist on a number, 2.0

Cannon ball to recoiless cannon

5.0 for me

Batter up!

I paid $12 for this from a box in a country town antique store, but since it was Australian dollars it gets under the threshold at around US$8.40.

So... as long time readers know, I have full runs of some of the EC New Direction titles (Aces High, Impact, Piracy, Valor), and have been picking up a few others - like the M.D. above. One title I mostly managed to resist was Extra! The one copy (#4) I have isn't scintillating (though it has a very good cover). Then this lot of #1,2 and 3 (graded "average FN+") came up at Heritage and the Inner Completist (with whom I rarely win any fight) decided we needed to own them. The winning debating points were that they are nicely matched in grade and the #4 is close to that, and I'd only need to pay postage once. So at some future time these will be here to enjoy in closer detail. Here's my #4 for completness: With that I am just three books short of the entire New Direction run - Extra! #5, M.D. #3 and Psychoanalysis #1. Anyone have ones they would part with?

Yet more childhood nostalgia added to my box of Australian Disneys. Both of these were big favourites at the time - a long Barks story and the 'Best of DD' series was great. Each one had three of the WDC&S 10 page classics. I can't recall how I felt about the price rise some time in 1975, but the odds are good I wasn't impressed!

Cat in an alley to cats and a duck on a fence

Squatting beneath a bomber to climbing into a bomber

Soldier with rifle to soldier getting rifle