AJD

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

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.

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)

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).