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Australia was a solid market for Disney comics for many years, and the local industry reprinted many issues here until imports replaced them in 1978. Many reprinted Dell/Gold Key comics from the US, but there are also lots of European stories from the 1960s and 1970s. Over the years there were lots of one-offs and specials, but the main series were:
Donald Duck (2 series - D.D.# and later D.#)
Film Preview (FP.# - the movie adapations
Giant Series (G.# - sort of like Dell's Four Color series)
Jumbo Series (like the Dell Giants J.#)
Mickey Mouse (M.M.# and later M.#)
Walt Disney Comics and Stories (No.#)
Images of almost all of the 2,200 comics (!) can be found on the Ausreprints site as well, but I thought some bigger scans of the ones I have might be nice to have on the web as well.
This is the first volume of Australian Disneys I will post in the Gallery. It entirely consists of comics from the Giant (G) Series, which was sort of like the Dell Four Color seriesof one-shots, with a wide range of titles within it. There were 698 issues in total, numbered G1 to G699 (G95 does not exist).

My collection of Dell comics. Dell was an incredibly prolific and diverse publisher, so my collection of mostly funny animal and cartoon characters really just scratches the surface. For example, I have none of their many westerns, war or ghost comics, no Tarzan, only a few of the movie and TV tie in books etc.
There are lots of duck books here, including
Four Color Comics : the classic Barks stories were run in the Four Color Series for many years, including the first 20 or so Donald Duck stories (until the Donald Duck series started with #26, which wasn't really the 26th...) and the first three Uncle Scrooge issues.
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories : #1 was published in October 1940 and the final Dell issue was #263 in August 1962. My focus has mainly been on issues 1 - 100, but I'll pick up nice copies of others when I get a chance.

I've been collecting ECs for over ten years now, and I thought they'd look nice in a gallery. I'm not a horror fan, but you'll find full runs of the war and sci-fi titles here, all of the Mad comics (#1-23) and the first magazine (#24). I also have all of the New Direction books and a few other odds and ends.

A selection of Australian comics from 1938 - February 1966
These are all from my collection. Most of them are reprints of American comics, but there are some Australian originals in here as well. Check out the Crimson Comet by Australian artist John Dixon - one of my favourites. The Silver Flash books have some great covers (and not so great interiors, but you're spared that here) and are well worth checking out.
Australia used a British-style money system until February 1966. The prices translate roughly like this:
6d = sixpence = 5c
1/- = one shilling = 10c

My collection of WW2 vintage books with a cover theme incorporating a war bond or stamp, or an ad for them.

Since I already have a fair chunk of my collection in albums, I thought I'd put up the rest just for fun. My EC, Australian, Dell ducks and war bonds covers all have their own albums. This one is a category I have imaginatively called "other". In it you'll find various things, including a Fiction House collection that almost got its own album, and selected covers by Golden Age greats - L. B. Cole, Wolverton, Schomburg and even a Baker or Two.

My collection of Australian reprints of Disney comics (1947-1978) has well and truly outgrown a single album. This album contains images of Australian printed Disney comics in the following series. It will grow as I manage to find them! This volume is an 'other' volume that contains the shorter series. You can find the longer running ones in volumes 1 through 3.
Character Issues CI (26 issues) - many of these reprint parts of Dell Four Color issues
Christmas Parade CP (15 issues)
Film Preview (90 issues) Movie and TV tie-ins, reprinted from Dell Four Color and later Gold Key adaptations
Jumbo series J (57 issues) - these are 64 page books. Some reprint Dell Giants, others are compilations of other Dell material
Mobil giveaways (24 issues) - given away in 1964 at petrol/gas stations in Australia (there is also a series from New Zealand)
One shots (? issues) - issues that pre-date or sit outside of established series
One Shot series OS (65 issues) - most of these reprint parts of Dell Four Color issues
Vacation Parade VP (7 issues)

The Australian version of the Dell/Gold Key/Whitman series 'Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'. This series began in October 1946, and so is offset from the 1941 Dell series by approximately 65 issues. There are 380 issues in this series, the final one appearing in 1978.

There were two series of Donald Duck comics - the first was numbered DD1 - DD22 from 1953 to 1956. The D series ran for 258 issues from 1956 - 1978