KG Murray's Batman #105 was published c.February 1959:
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Of interest here is the UK edition of this issue:
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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.
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Such a typical, funky cover. I love it!
The differences between the AU and UK versions can be easily attributed to pressman’s ability, inks, printing presses and finishing processes.
“The UK edition has been cropped along the right-hand side”
That’s the result of the guillotine operator trimming the final job. If you place various issues of any AU or UK reprint comic together in a pile from that rough period, you’ll see differences in physical size between various issues of the series. Comics were not a ‘high-end’ product, so precise adjustment to the guillotine would not have been a priority.
“The UK edition is also a bit brighter”
This boils down to several factors but, mainly differences in the printing inks. Assuming the two scans are basically correct you’ll note a difference in the colour of the 100% magenta ink used on the table. Different ink manufacturers make (slightly) different hues. The process used Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow and Black – so each may be slightly different (but not as apparent with the black ink).
Also, there is a massive variable of the pressman’s ability, and the actual printing press used.
A (tortured) car analogy would be:
One press is a “Ford”, and the other press is a “Hyundai”. Each can do the intended job but have differences in what they do well. Another variable would be if both the AU and UK presses were my non-existent “Ford” brand, then factors such as age, maintenance, and mileage would impact on the ‘performance’ of the press.
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