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Belated thanks to Ed and Corey for the kind words above. And to Apostrophe Guy for the words above.

Here's my latest pickup - only temporarily in my hands because Mrs AJD actually bought this for me for Christmas. ( (worship) ) She really likes the Planets, as well as my Peanuts and Pogo books... I'm seeing an alliterative pattern here.

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I've bought very Australian Planet I've seen for sale in the past 20 months. I have 5 of 24. I'm thinking this could take a while...

It's interesting to compare the Australian edition with Planet #58 (not mine - just from the interwebs):

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For some reason the local publisher has crudely removed the visible (and anotomically dubious) arm bones from the image. I can only guess that it was censorship... but why?

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I was thinking that these wouldn't quite sneak in through the post before Christmas, but they arrived today from Heritage.

I've picked up a few books that came out of these 'six hole' bound volumes. This one was graded 4.0 by CGC - it's now released back into the wild.

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This #40 was listed by Heritage as a G/VG but I have no idea why. I'd Grade it as a solid 5.0, so I'll count that as a win!

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This #38 was a spur of the moment thing. The chip bugs me more than I thought it would. I'm planning on learning paper restoration skills in the future, so there might be an infill at some stage...

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Given that it's now 2017, I suppose it's time for... (drum roll)...

 

AJD’s class of ‘aught sixteen

 

EC

 

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Fiction House

 

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Australian Fiction House reprints

 

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Australian originals

 

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Dell Four Color

 

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War bonds

 

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WDC&S

 

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Other

 

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INCREDIBLE year Andrew! :golfclap:
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Some stragglers from last year's purchases turned up yesterday. The 'class of 2016' group in the post above included the ebay pics for these, so here are some scans.

Australian Jumbo #25

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And the back cover house ad, which shows what a jumble of FH stories were in the Australian copies - a mix of stuff from the FH line in the Rangers.

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This Kaanga #23 was incorrectly listed on eBay as a UK comic, but it's the Australian edition.

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(Did the FH artists never bother to count the toes on a cat? Incorrectly pentadactyl felines abound on their covers...)

Here are a couple of splash pages from the Kaanga:

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And I really like this one (from the Ghost title):

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And a Jumbo #30 to round out the group:

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My last purchase of 2016 turned up in the mail yesterday - and what a ripper it is.

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It's a big book in all measures - the classic 'big' GA size, and is 68 pages to boot.The stories are good too. The first one has the Nazis building a dam in the Atlantic Ocean to reroute the gulf stream current to freeze England. ("A bit chilly, what?" opines a stoic Brit...) Of course, Billy Batson discovers the plot and the Nazis naturally (!?) take him to the dam to stop him intefering. A Shazam! later and things aren't going well for our nazi anti-heroes. They decide to bomb Captain Marvel, who is in the process of taking the dam apart, thus helping him with lots of extra explosives. When the dam is almost gone, CM decides the extra bombs can be 'returned to sender' in this big splash:

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The 'paste the axis' competition involves providing captions for a drawing. But the three captions have to be selected, then cut and pasted from six printed along the bottom of the page. OO Rachael Rutter (name written in pencil on last page) cut out all six captions and very neatly pasted three of them into the drawing. But we get to see the rest. Instead of throwing them away, she thoughtfully (and still neatly) pasted them in the top margin:

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I don't mind at all that the book was cut up - in fact I really like the 'prior history' here. Thanks Rachael!

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The 'paste the axis' competition involves providing captions for a drawing. But the three captions have to be selected, then cut and pasted from six printed along the bottom of the page. OO Rachael Rutter (name written in pencil on last page) cut out all six captions and very neatly pasted three of them into the drawing. But we get to see the rest. Instead of throwing them away, she thoughtfully (and still neatly) pasted them in the top margin:

 

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I don't mind at all that the book was cut up - in fact I really like the 'prior history' here. Thanks Rachael!

 

I loathe pages missing and coupons cut with a vengeance - but this is something very different.

 

It's sweet thinking of the original owner, WWII most definitely uppermost in their mind, completing (and then not sending off) the entry form.

 

Delightful find :applause:

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The 'paste the axis' competition involves providing captions for a drawing. But the three captions have to be selected, then cut and pasted from six printed along the bottom of the page. OO Rachael Rutter (name written in pencil on last page) cut out all six captions and very neatly pasted three of them into the drawing. But we get to see the rest. Instead of throwing them away, she thoughtfully (and still neatly) pasted them in the top margin:

 

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I don't mind at all that the book was cut up - in fact I really like the 'prior history' here. Thanks Rachael!

 

I'm showing my ignorance here but is "Let's Clavnis on the Rafferstan!" supposed to mean something besides being an incredibly random selection of words. :P

 

Also, never realised how chunky Captain Marvel was before. :D

 

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Harry Lime said:

 

I'm showing my ignorance here but is "Let's Clavnis on the Rafferstan!" supposed to mean something besides being an incredibly random selection of words. :nyah:

 

 

It is in fact an incredibly random selection of words! The instructions warn that 'only THREE of the six panels are any good - the others are put there to tangle you up. You should throw those away'. Luckily the previous owner didn't do that, or "Let's Clavnis on the Rafferstan" would've been lost to posterity. lol

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