AJD

Yep, that last page is a bit of a train wreck!

March of crime to march for bonds

The first Australian issue of Wings. It has the cover (but no content) from #111. An eBay "near mint", complete with a tape pull (in the white area, so not immediately obvious), staples pulled through the back cover and just holding on the front, two book length bends, some small stains and soft corners all round... It didn't cost too much though, and it's by far the nicer of the two copies I've seen. It has a locally-sourced Space Hawk backup story by Paul 'Panther' Wheelahan - reproduced in full here for your delectation. It features Shah the pin-headed lion. Umba el ruc! (??)

The shadow to a shadow

Stan Lee won't associate himself with anyone who collects signatures? Oh, the irony...

To tanks for the golden age homage

Well, I was somewhat preoccupied with a hiking tour of Tasmania, but if the masses want their fix, I did find this for not too much in a little antique shop about 30 minutes from Launceston: The large cover pic is taken from WDC&S #19, with the "war effort" voice bubble overlaid. The war is really biting hard in England in 1943, as evidenced by this 8 page magazine which is much smaller than the 1940 editions I have. If the editorial is to be believed, they didn't have enough paper to meet the demand for copies: And even the comics have a WW2 factor. Tyres were hard to come by in the USofA during the war, hence this Taliaferro gag: Prof AJD's quiz corner: to the nearest power of 10, how many private automobiles were built in the US between 1942 and the end of the war?

Extra staples to no staples (!)

Weird to weird

To boy soldiers violating the Geneva Convention (though they do that by existing too...)

Flying saucers in fiction to flying saucers in fact (ahem)

One robot to many robots

I'll see your 7.0 and "raise" it with my under graded 6.5 (cracked out). It seems that CGC is tough on this book!

25c book to 25c book

Turtle to tortoise (? I assume so because he has feet, not flippers)

Here's my only member of the class of 39

I could feel that coming in the air tonight, oh Lord.

Off-screen menace to further off-screen menace

Just another blonde with a gun

... and back to rope

Radio to ersatz (Barks brand) radio

We can't all get them for 10c Marty!

DD to Donald Duck

Yeah, 5.5 and improvable.