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I've virtually (and sometimes really) met some great people through these boards. Knowing that I like Australian pence comics almost as much as he likes British ones, @Get Marwood & I very kindly let me have a couple he found in a bulk lot.

Here's the first of them.

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I have one other issue and I thought it was filled with really weak gags. Maybe my expectations were lower going into this one, but I got a few chuckles from it. For instance I quite liked this opening gag:

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It would annoy @Duffman_Comics if I refer to a "couple of books" but leave the other one for another day. So I'm leaving the other one for another day.

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7 hours ago, Duffman_Comics said:

Consider me annoyed, so mission accomplished.

That GI Jane looks in great condition compared to other 9d Oz comics I've seen.

Anyway, carry on. I'm a little buggered, after more firefront duties.

How's that going Duff? 

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11 hours ago, Duffman_Comics said:

Consider me annoyed, so mission accomplished.

That GI Jane looks in great condition compared to other 9d Oz comics I've seen.

Anyway, carry on. I'm a little buggered, after more firefront duties.

In recognition of your sterling service Peter, here is the other book.

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This is a reprint of #2 of the same US title. I expect you would all like to know how the sub gets away from the giant octopus... well read on.

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And I had to include this page just because it is so stupid. The USS Nautilus was the first nuclear-powered submarine. Launched in 1954, it was (quite rightly) seen as a great technical accomplishment. The writer of this page got a little carried away though... enemies of America beware!

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6 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

How's that going Duff? 

Bloody tiring. There was a flare up south of me at Herons Creek. A State Forest concern but we get to go too. Nothing much, under control but needed patrolling.

Now we have had a little rain which is great, but EVERYONE is so on edge that they are jumping at shadows, calling emergency numbers because they have "smelled smoke" or seen some smoke "they think". And those calls cannot be ignored. We have to go and check.

Still, we'd rather go out and find nothing than find ourselves calling for support and spending the next twelve hours on a fireground.

Thanks for the interest, now off to annoy Andrew!

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3 hours ago, AJD said:

In recognition of your sterling service Peter, here is the other book.

 

This is a reprint of #2 of the same US title. I expect you would all like to know how the sub gets away from the giant octopus... well read on.

 

 

 

And I had to include this page just because it is so stupid. The USS Nautilus was the first nuclear-powered submarine. Launched in 1954, it was (quite rightly) seen as a great technical accomplishment. The writer of this page got a little carried away though... enemies of America beware!

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I cannot let this one go unobserved. Caterpillar treads on a submarine? That'll do wonders for the underwater hydrodynamic profile. Unless they're retractable. Even then, so I have managed to get a submarine onto land and move about. So what? What possible arms can I use without opening up the hatch and allowing the crew to be picked off one by one. It's a very small hatch. Just ludicrous.

A guided missile on a submarine? Spot on. Wait. They don't have propellers. Or wings.  Which would be useless flying at stratospheric altitudes. Very thin air. "The motor cuts out and the missile homes in on target". Ummm, that's not the way it works. The "V2" had that design feature (as did the "V1" but it wasn't a rocket). 300 mile range? Woefully underestimated.

In essence got it right, missiles on subs, but everything else wrong.

Lastly, who wouldn't want to crew a submarine being launched into either orbit or sub-orbit. What an exciting landing.

 

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2 minutes ago, Duffman_Comics said:

I cannot let this one go unobserved.

 

And yet you missed the panel with the octopus in which a crew member says "suddenly it's gotten dark!"

Because the octopus had put its tentacles over the large windows built into the submarine, presumably. :insane:

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3 hours ago, AJD said:

In recognition of your sterling service Peter, here is the other book.

 

This is a reprint of #2 of the same US title. I expect you would all like to know how the sub gets away from the giant octopus... well read on.

 

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And I had to include this page just because it is so stupid. The USS Nautilus was the first nuclear-powered submarine. Launched in 1954, it was (quite rightly) seen as a great technical accomplishment. The writer of this page got a little carried away though... enemies of America beware!

 

I thought there was a window in the sail of the submarine. It is advanced, after all, but I am not sure how much light is available at cruising depths.

I am puzzled by all of the figures swimming around the sub in the splash. At first I thought it presaged a little EVA by our heroes in the story, but there are only four of them - and six swimmers. Looking closely, they must be associated with the villains. But not the "Belotti" the giants' slaves. They are hairy.

Oh dear. "We'll have to darken our skins".

They are mounting a mission in blackface :facepalm:

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4 hours ago, Duffman_Comics said:

Bloody tiring. There was a flare up south of me at Herons Creek. A State Forest concern but we get to go too. Nothing much, under control but needed patrolling.

Now we have had a little rain which is great, but EVERYONE is so on edge that they are jumping at shadows, calling emergency numbers because they have "smelled smoke" or seen some smoke "they think". And those calls cannot be ignored. We have to go and check.

Still, we'd rather go out and find nothing than find ourselves calling for support and spending the next twelve hours on a fireground.

Thanks for the interest, now off to annoy Andrew!

Must be tough for you guys. Hang in there :foryou:

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4 hours ago, Duffman_Comics said:

Lastly, who wouldn't want to crew a submarine being launched into either orbit or sub-orbit. What an exciting landing.

Commander Bill Battle will have it covered Duff. The sub may rattle, but Bill Battle won't stand for any tittle tattle even if they land in Seattle. Will Bill allow the crew to call him William Battle? Will Bill Battle heck as like. 

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2 hours ago, AJD said:

I was very pleased to be able to buy this book from the great boardie "Lim(x-->infinity)  x/(2x+5)"

I am still theoretically chasing WDC&S 1-100 but changes to the exchange rate had, I thought, put 1-5 out of my reach. However, this very nicely presenting yet affordable #4 will do nicely.

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:applause:Congrats Andrew, nice copy!

,,And don't give up(not like your compulsive collector nature -which most of us here have, will let you anyway :D )

The complete 1 -100 run will find it's way to you (thumbsu

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6 hours ago, JohnnyR said:

I'm so glad it made it safely to you!!  Great book, happy a great boardie has one of his grails!!!

Top man! A book in the right hands is a wonderful thing Johnny :applause:

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Q: What's better than this Sheena #4 cover?

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A: When it's a #1, and with stronger colour

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No "Safari for Gorillas" in this abbreviated Australian book. The editors did find room for this Simba story though:

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Oh, no! An interloper in Simba's domain threatening the well being of Simba's dinner dependants. What will happen next? Well, readers of this particular comic would never know, because here's the 4th page as published. Yep, it's from a different story.

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However, in this digital age we can go to the digitalcomicmuseum.com site and find out what happens (from Jungle  #123):

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So, pretty much the same, just with a tiger instead of a leopard. That said, I do like the dynamic artwork in these Simba stories - those LH panels in the last couple of rows are very nicely done big cat fight scenes. Credited in the GCD to Richard Case - about whom I know zero.

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Even the work experience kid would have taken more care in cutting and pasting than the adult in charge. It really was "wild and woolly" back in the day.

I do like the distortion of the panel in the last page to accommodate the Simba's paw. A delightful conceit.

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Another Australian comic, this time a local production from go to whoa. While I might wish this was a higher grade, having a copy at all is pretty cool! What's not to like about John Dixon's winged superhero, GGA and masked bad guys?

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The early Crimson Comet issues were really big too - this one is 28cm x 20 cm (or 11" x 8" for those of you still in the 19th century).

I've shown you Dixon's CC work before, so this time I'll highlight the backup story, which I think has some nice work from Australian artist Clifford Barnes.

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... though the writing is typical golden age, and I'm not 100% convinced by the "hysterical joy" on display in this last panel.

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The Tiger has a serpentine look about him in the first panel of the story. That aside, the majority of the jungle action is very good indeed.

The Crimson Comet looks vaguely disinterested on the cover. Was he saving golden girls in distress from gas-mask wearing thugs all the time?

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