British Update: UK & Australian Reprints Galore – Batman, Blackhawk, Dracula, Frankenstein and More
*Vintage UK/Australian Reprints of US Material: In excess of fifty vintage reprint issues added to our lists this time, from a period in the 50s and 60s when scarcity of American originals meant that odd repackagings of familiar strips turned up in ersatz black & white (occasionally with a dash of colour) reprints designed to fill the ecological niche in the newsagents. Gordon & Gotch, Murray, Arnold, Strato, Thorpe & Porter, Top Sellers and World Distributors were among the more common repackagers – and several of them may be yet-undiscovered arms of the same publisher – with the titles added to this week including the terror trilogy of one-shots Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy, superheroics with Blackhawk, Batman and the Flash, sci-fi starring Brick Bradford and his Time Top, crime with Manhunt and Marc Brody Illustrated, supernatural thrills from Adventures Into the Unknown and Unusual Tales, and Giant Comic, a squarebound anthology with rotating features including Black Diamond, All-Star Western and Turok, Son of Stone.