March From Defeat in Yaffa comics

This is the cover to Page Publications' digest-sized World War Library #14:

This is Chatto's rendition of the cover to MV Features' Action War Picture Library #18:

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This issue was recycled as War in the Jungle #4:

I expect more editions of this story to turn up.

Pit of Evil #10

Gredown's Pit of Evil #10 was published c.mid/late 1978:

This cover was recycled a few years later on Eternal Hell:

The image appears to be loosely based on the splash page for the second story Walk the Edge of Darkness:

Curiously, the first story The Ghoul is titled Susanne The Ghoul on the cover.

The inner front cover has a list of contents:

Note the issue is incorrectly designated No. 11. 

The decorative illustrated border of the contents page is as per Gredowns of this period however it does not have excerpts from the stories as per earlier issues such as Tales of Horror #1.

The contents of this issue are indexed on AusReprints.

Tales of Horror #1

Gredown's Terror of Horror #1 was published c.June 1975:

The cover by Phil Belbin is partially based on interior art from the lead and cover story The Devil's Lies:

The contents of this issue are fully indexed on AusReprints. Indeed, they are listed on the inner front cover of this issue:

The images associated with each title are excerpts from the related stories. Curiously, There's Life in the Old Girl Yet! is titled The Witch's Spell on this contents page. I am unaware of this story being titled The Witch's Spell elsewhere.

The art on the surrounding the border of this page appears in other Gredown issues of this era. I don't have information on the artist.

Giant Superman Album: Where did that Superman cover image originally appear...?

Here's something I think will fascinate collectors of KG Murray comics. This panel appears in the tabloid-sized Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man:

It's an auspicious moment for superhero fans in general, but it's also of note for readers of the Giant Superman Album series- the Superman figure was modified for use on a few issues of this series, beginning with Giant Superman Album #33:

It also appeared on the covers of Giant Superman Album #35, #38 and #40.

There was a tradition of such Australian made covers in the 1970's - an image of Superman would be pulled from an issue originally published by DC Comics and used to introduce the contents of the issues via panels related to some of the stories contained within. All of these Superman images have been identified over the years, and are catalogued on AusReprints. However, this image has proved particularly elusive, and its source been bugging me for years, so you can imagine I'm quite chuffed to have solved this mystery.

It begs another question - if KG Murray had access to this image, does this mean they also had rights to the Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man issue? Presumably so. It's a shame a local edition of this issue doesn't exist. If it did, it might have been a regular-sized issue printed in black and white, like the Batman vs. The Incredible Hulk published by Federal.

Batman #105: The Australian and UK editions

KG Murray's Batman #105 was published c.February 1959:

The contents are indexed on AusReprints.

Of interest here is the UK edition of this issue:

The issues are identical - the stories, the filler strips, and the advertisements, including the Australian address for the Rocket Stamps collection on the inner rear cover - are indistinguishable from one another. 

The only difference is the cover price, and the fact that the cover of the UK edition has been cropped along the right hand side. The UK edition is also a bit brighter, but this may be due to exposure to light on my Australian edition.