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For those of you who are sorry you missed this, good news... you can 'get one of these'!

Cool, I don't recall having seen that one before. Out of curiosity, I looked on eBay and you are right about it not being hard to find, because there are five of them, including a 9.6! To be fair though, one of the listings does say "very rare".

Speaking of partial reprints... this Australian O.S.41 (1952) reprints only the title story of Four Color #379, in black and white

All good, I was being a bit cheeky. Spin and Marty isn't something I ever recall seeing, despite watching a lot of Disney stuff in the late 60s and 70s, so for me it was really a completist thing.

OK, so I've added the following UK comics to the GCD. They are pending approval but should be visible soon. I haven't touched the Marvel variants, and I don't intend to because I don't understand them well enough to avoid errors! Linda Lark 2 Real Clue 5 Down with Crime 54 Looney Tunes 2 Katy Keene 52 edit: Impossibles annual added

I'm curious - do you Four Color completists groan inwardly (even a little) and question the very reason for your existence when you have to buy comics like this one? I certainly did when I bought the Australian edition. But we have to have the set, right?

These are (now?) on the GCD. #1-4 of that series are broken out separately. https://www.comics.org/series/68408/covers/

I can't see why they wouldn't. But ask in the "ask CGC thread". Alternatively, there's at least one Australian rep who handles CGC submissions, and who might offer better shipping rates because of bulk. https://www.ozcomix.com.au/cgc-grading-serivices Caveat: I have never used the service. Maybe some Australian boardies who slab books could chime in. @Beige?

I keep telling you that we'd get a better result if you just sent me the books instead of the scans. You'll get them back just as soon as the dog has finished digesting the baby chickens.

Fine, I'll add them since I have a little time on hand. I've just submitted Real Clue #5. The Brazilian FG is tricky - I think I know which series it is, but is there an issue number somewhere? (The scan metadata suggests #17 - is that right?) Edit: also submitted Linda Lark, Lark, Laaaaark

I do not care much for it.

Still looking for matches in that photo. The two Pecos Bill issues had me stumped, but they seemed to be imported comics from the UK. When I saved the photo to rotate it and enlarge it, I saw that the title is "London schoolboy with comics", so in fact this might be a photo of Australian comics on sale with a selection of British comics. There are other British comics in the mix as well, like these two Pecos Bill issues. It's odd, though,because they they differ by 8 issue numbers, which I wouldn't expect in their home market, but could happen if they arrived in Australia in a bulk lot? The series started in 1951, so #8 could be 1951 or 1952, and #16 1952 or 1953. The Australian comics in the photo seem to be dated from 1951 to 1953 - quite a wide range! Likewise, there is a copy of Little Sheriff #18, also a British publication, as well as two other issues that don't appear in the GCD - numbers 19, 20 and 21 are among the missing candidates, which seems about right. Also visible are Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders. I spot #10 and one other that isn't in the GCD (maybe 7 or 9 or 12). The D*ck Tracy #21 and the Phantom #65 and 67 are all Australian. The Phantoms are early 1953. The kid seems to have his left hand on 'Amazing Detective', which clearly has a UK publisher logo pricing, but I can't find it on the GCD. Maybe @Get Marwood & I has some thoughts? Oh Boy! and Wonderman is a UK title that seems to have escaped anything but a bare bones mention in the GCD. The Kid Colt should be easy to find because we can see almost the whole cover, but doesn't seem to be in the long running UK series of the time by Thorpe and Porter. There were also three issues by Miller around the same time (no images in the GCD), so it might be one of those. It's not Australian. The Pirates issues are these two UK editions (nn and #5) Confusing me even more, the Casper issue (top left) seems to have the cover of the Harvey US edition from December 1952. It's not the 1955 Australian reprint of that issue, which had 'March 1955' in white on the TLC. It's either the US edition, or a UK reprint one-shot but again there's no GCD image to check. Here's the US cover - the one in the photo looks like it has a darker background. The Felix the Cat issues are UK editions, numbers 7 and 8, both dated 1953 There are a few others, but I'll leave it there. But this photo gives us a really interesting snapshot of the UK/Australia comics market. Apparently comics could be found on sale for quite a few months after publication even in their home market, and up to a couple of years later for imports! What I first thought was a photo of comics for sale in Australia that included some British comics turns out to be comics for sale in the UK with some Australian imports. Fascinating stuff, at least for those of us who find it fascinating.

I'd take my 5th place if I could lock it in now!

I love this great shot of Australian comics lined up for sale on the footpath (sidewalk). The comics were often on the ground, with the newspapers sometimes being on the ground but sometimes on a rack. I was buying comics that way during visits to Melbourne in the 1960s with my parents. The Tim Valour comic (RHS towards the bottom and again right at the bottom towards the left) is #21 of the first series. The publication date is listed as January 1950(?) in AusReprints. But the Char Chapman (towards the bottom LH corner) is cited as 1951(?) there, but 1952 on the GCD. Placing these undated comics in a timeline isn't easy!