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AusReprints documents Australian comics, focusing on the neglected reprints from the 1940s to the 1980s.
The site has been developed with generous contributions of scans and information from many collectors. Click here for information on how you can help.
![Buck Rogers (Southdown Press, 1947 series) #126 ([1949?])](https://images.ausreprints.net/page/42997.jpg?width=600 "Buck Rogers (Southdown Press, 1947 series) #126 ([1949?])")
Welcome
AusReprints documents Australian comics, focusing on the neglected reprints from the 1940s to the 1980s.
The site has been developed with generous contributions of scans and information from many collectors. Click here for information on how you can help.
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Cyril Samuels (1895-1982)
Oozy Woozy and the Kids was Australian cartoonist Cyril Samuels' longest running newspaper strip.
26 Apr 2025
Head over to our Facebook group
More information and discussion about AusReprints at the Australian reprint comic book appreciation group.
27 Dec 2022
Do you have Hodge's 'Mesa Gold' pulp?
Hodge contributed to a wartime cartoon collection. Hill End history group is looking for his 'Mesa Gold' pulp (click and read comments).
22 Feb 2020
Do you know more? Zip Comics
The usual references don't mention 'The Oil Seekers' by Tony Rafty, which seems to predate his 'first' comic for NSW Bookstall.
16 Jul 2018
Who is Hottie Lahm?
Most known for iconic dog Snifter during a long career at KG Murray, Lahm created Snowy McGann to fill the 1951 Ginger Meggs gap at The Sun.
14 Jul 2018
Censorship 2: Straight Arrow #17
Was a provocative pose during poker too much for Aus editors? Or were there late changes to the original art for ‘Uproar’ in the US?
11 Jul 2018
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Frew
by James Zee
While The Phantom is Frew Publications' most famous and only remaining comic, from the late 1940s the company also published a wide range of other reprints and original Australian comics.
In 1948, Ron Forsyth, Jim Richardson, Jack Eisen and Peter Watson put in £500 each to found Frew, using an acronym of their four surnames to name the new company—although Eisen and Watson withdrew before the first comic was produced. For the next 40 years, Forsyth and Richardson shaped the company into an Australian icon.
![Walt Disney's Giant Comics [G Series] (WG Publications) #G546 (February 1973?)](https://images.ausreprints.net/page/25494.jpg?width=200&scale=both "Walt Disney's Giant Comics [G Series] (WG Publications) #G546 (February 1973?)")