Joker #10 is a digest-sized Page Publications issue with a cover signed by Keith Chatto:
This issue is not a comic book but rather a collection of gag cartoons with a few 'girlie' pics as they were known in the day. Here's a sample two-page spread:
There are also two single-page text pieces which I assume are included for the issue to qualify as a certain type of periodical for distribution or other arcane reasons - someone more knowledgeable on these matters can chime in and educate me.
The 56 pages in this issue contain a vast variety of artists, and some of them have quite an attractive style, but I know little about them, and I haven't gone down that particular rabbit hole with the few samples of copies like this issue which I own. I see many of them in my rounds but I only pick up copies with covers by Chatto.
Having said that, if this wasn't by Chatto I think I might have been interested in it for the references to the classic adult Australian tv shows Number 96 and The Box, and presumably a reference to Never on Sunday.
I have a few more such issues to present in future posts.
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Interesting to see that at least one of the cartoons is by Henry Boltinoff, who for decades produced one or half-page humorous filler strips for DC comics - many of which, of course, were reprinted locally in KGM comics. Obviously he had a lot of gag ideas that wouldn’t have fitted neatly in an instalment of “Moolah the Mystic”, “Varsity Vic” or “Capp’s Hobby Himts”….
Hmmmm …… given the Number 96 reference, could the cover be “inspired” by the show’s first sex symbol, Abagail?
Possibly, although the woman on the cover looks like a typical Chatto figure. The woman in the photo also looks like Abigail...
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