From the Golden Age to present, recording the history of Comic Book publishing and collecting in South Africa. Submissions Welcome! George van der Riet. e-mail: g.vdr26@gmail.com
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This is Atlas Publications Walt Disney's When Knighthood was in Flower, a South African reprint from 1961, which reprints Dell
Four Color Comics #682 from 1956.
32 Pages, colour newsprint cover, black-and-white interior. Digest Size 163x113mm
Cover and Dell Comics' original cover:
This rare South African reprint was published in 1963 by Mimosa (S.A. Magazine Co.).
Glossy Colour Cover, Black-and-White Interior.
These titles were printed in a smaller size (161x116mm) compared to the original DC Comics title.
Cover printed in colour, interior in black-and-white.
The printing reproduction from the original was very good quality. This issue is only 24 pages.
Cover of Romance Picture Library 23 and DC Comics' original cover of Girls' Love Stories 89 (1962):
This rare South African reprint was published in 1959 by Mimosa Publications (S.A. Magazine Co.).
Cover and Interior pages are newsprint - so after being read and swopped
a few times they would likely be falling apart and thrown away.
These titles were printed in a smaller size (255x170mm) compared to the original DC Comics title.
Cover and Interior printed in colour.
The printing reproduction from the original was very good quality. This issue is only 24 pages.
This is one of the seven first titles that Mimosa started reprinting in 1959 (Western Comics, Tales of
the Unexpected, Falling in Love, Mystery in Space, Romances, Batman and
All-Star Western).
Cover of Falling in Love 6 South African Edition and the Original Cover of DC Comics' Falling in Love 25 from 1959:
This is Mimosa 77 Sunset Strip, a South African reprint from 1963, which reprints Dell Four Color Comics #1211 from 1961.
77 Sunset Strip was a US Television series from 1957-1964. Dell and Gold
Key produced comic books based on this series, from 1960-1963.
32 Pages, colour cover, black-and-white interior.
Cover of issue 1 (no number printed on this issue, but I suspect it was the first issue) and Dell Comics' original cover:
Atlas Publications 77 Sunset Street 3
Mimosa Comics
This rare South African reprint was published in 1964 by Mimosa (S.A. Magazine Co.).
These titles were printed in a smaller size (161x116mm) compared to the original DC Comics title.
Cover printed in colour, interior in black-and-white.
The printing reproduction from the original was very good quality. This issue is 64 pages.
Cover of Confession Picture Library 36 and DC Comics' original cover of Falling in Love 59 (1963):
This is Atlas Publications Walt Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, a South African reprint from 1960, which reprints Dell
Four Color Comics #614 from 1954.
32 Pages, colour newsprint cover, black-and-white interior. Digest Size 163x113mm
Cover and Dell Comics' original cover:
This is Supercomix The Incredible Hulk 4, published by Republican Press in 1976.
32 Pages, Full colour.
Cover and Marvel Comics' original cover of The Incredible Hulk 118 from 1969:
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