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We interrupt your daily Australian pence copy bulletin for this just in: Here are some of the innards - a dragon that looks like it wandered out of a Chinese New year parade... ... and a couple of pages from the Flint Baker story. Our heroine gets some action with a blaster later in the story, but she's a clothes horse for a 'how does that stay up?' outfit in the first few pages!

Talk about the right place at the right time!

Kaänga had some excellent jungle covers (with the almost inevitable pentadactyl FH cats). Whitman work on this one. This story is weird and reads oddly. The GCD explains why in the entry for Kaänga #9 (from whence both the cover and this story came). It says that it is "from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #64 (April 1945) [Edited from 6 pages to 4. Heavily re-written with many touched up panels.]" Indexer Notes

Another day, another Aussie FH reprint. Great colours on this one. I don't know why it took me so long to realise that I could set the scanner to 'black and white' for the inners of these comics.

You are a very odd man, @Get Marwood & I

Not a problem. I'm too drunk to take offence, and there's shrimp on the barbie, mate.

Thankfully the Cowgirl Romances was by far the lowest grade of the Australian books I picked up. Here's another, from the same 'Low' collection, but nicer. And the 'UTC' image is actually a back cover image. The Stamina school clothes ads on a few of these have a profile of significant historical figures on them. I thought it would be fun to include those here. @Duffman_Comics: I think you mentioned some Stamina cards of famous people - I'm guessing the subjects are the same? A bit of a tortured link between Socrates and the brand name here...

Amazingly, you missed a nit-pick. (Are you OK?) I was sure you'd observe that the 'Z' on the branding iron was the wrong way around. It ought to be mirror reversed when seen from the bottom.

OK, I picked up a bunch of Australian Fiction House reprints recently, and I have some other new parcels incoming, so I better get around to posting some of the Oz books. This one gives beaters a bad name, but it's the first Cowgirl Romances I've seen. There can't be a lot around, as the GCD only has issues 1 and 3 (listed under Cowgirl ) and AusReprints has 1, 3, 6 and 7. In fact, the #6 there is this one, before I straightened it up and spot pressed a few of the dog ears and pieces back into place (sort of). Down the track, when I've acquired the right skills, I'll do a full spine reinforcement and seal the tears, so the book can be handled safely. Here's 91% of the back cover. The Australian books often half this 'two pages into one' approach because of the short page count (28 pages for this one).

Loved the @Harry Lime review, but I'm childish enough to have laughed out loud at the @Get Marwood & I sequence. #pullmyfinger

That finds its way onto the oddest books... CGC also includes it for this one.

I'm in the 7.5 camp, due to the tanning and the crease.

I finally joined the Nedor club. Love this cover - "Hmm, not quite enough mayhem. Needs a tiger."

My kind of 3.0 - all the defect in one spot! Great looking book.

Today's offering is my first Nedor - and one with a war bonds 'tag' on the cover to boot. I found this at an enticingly low price. It has a completely split and detached spine, but the split is about as neat as you could wish, and it presents really well. The insides are excellent, and at least it's easy to scan for the UTC shot when you don't have to worry about the cover or popping a staple.