...covering Australian comics
"Frank Johnson One-Shots" is a group of 50 related titles/one-shots.
During the second world war, new ongoing serials were prohibited to preserve paper supplies, but one-off publications were possible. Frank Johnson Publications (FJP) entered comics publishing with a series of one-shot anthologies, each issue using a new title.
www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/.../slnsw_pulp_guide.pdf'>Pulp Confidential (State Library of NSW) reports FJP's first issue was Amazing Comics in July 1941. This was followed the next week by Star Comics and an array of one-shot titles. When FJP ran out of new ideas for names, old titles were re-used with the addition of 'New' to the title: New Startling, New Magic and so on. Later, FJP adopted 'Magpie' branding in the one-shot titles.
Some popular features from these anthologies were also complied and reprinted by FJP in (mostly) one-shot titles.
Frank Johnson one-shot groups:
Frank Johnson one-shots
Frank Johnson 'new' one-shots
Frank Johnson 'Magpie' one-shots
Frank Johnson compilations.