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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.
![More Funny Stories about Old Friends Bib and Bub (Cornstalk, 1928 series) [nn] ([September 1928])](https://images.ausreprints.net/page/84727.jpg?width=600 "More Funny Stories about Old Friends Bib and Bub (Cornstalk, 1928 series) [nn] ([September 1928])")
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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Literacy, Deliquency and Captain Triumph
by James Zee
Just after Christmas 1948, during the holiday silly season when newspapers desperately seek copy to fill their pages, the Sydney Morning Herald opened up debate about the impact of comics on young people.
The final pages of this article reproduce in full the sensationalist and shallow article that may have helped crystalised popular discontent over comics corrupting Australian youth. It represents a fascinating early skirmish in the cultural tensions that erupted into overt censorship during the 1950s, particularly focused around Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, published in 1954.
![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?)")