Gallary of Australian Reprint Comics
Australian access to original US comics was limited until the 1980s, resulting in a relatively strong local comic industry, including reprints.
This website documents the Murray/Federal comics (mainly DC reprints) published in Australia from the late 1940s to the 1980s. It also includes related Australian and reprint comics, as well as UK comics published in association with KG Murray.
From 1946 until 1983, the KG Murray Publishing Company produced comics under a range of imprints—Climax Comics, Blue Star, Colour Comics, Planet Comics and finally Murray Comics. While most were DC reprints, also included were original Australian work and other reprints from such diverse publishers as ACG, Charlton, Avalon, Novelty Press, Quality, Comic Media, Ziff-Davis, St. John, Ajax-Farrell, Fiction House and Atlas/Marvel. Some series included translated European comics, particularly from Spain.
Between 1983 and 1986, the Federal Publishing Company Pty Ltd released DC reprints as Federal Comics and finally Australian Edition DC. Federal also produced a short-lived range of Marvel reprints, extending a tradition of intermittant Marvel reprints from companies such as Horwitz (1950/60s), Newton (1970s) and Page/Yaffa (1970/80s).
DC material was published almost solely by KG Murray and Federal during this 40 year period. Only material produced under licence, and series originally created by other US publishers escaped the exclusive arrangements.
| No. on site | ||
| Titles | 488 | 52% (256) of these are one-shots |
| Issues | 4,097 | 75% of all Murray/Federal (estimate) |
| Australian covers | 3,895 | 95% of issues on the site |
| 2,738 high res | 70% of covers on the site | |
| Indexes | 2,465 | 60% of issues on the site |
| Stories | 18,854 | 92% of originals printings identified |
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