Title Wally and the Major / by Stan Cross

Published [Caulfield, Vic.] : [Edgar H. Baille for The Herald and Weekly Times], [1943?]- Caulfield, [Victoria] Edgar H. Baille for The Herald and Weekly Times, [1942-1959] Caulfield, [Victoria] Edgar H. Baille No. 1 (1943)-no. 18 (1960)

Location:	ADPML SPC  741.5994 Cro/Wat
Issues held:	no.1(1943)-9th ed., 11th ed., 13th ed.-14th ed., 16th ed.-18th ed.

Copies

Description volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 18 x 25 cm Series Australian Comics Collection (Specific issues). ANL John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues). ANL McGee Comics Collection (Specific issues). ANL Analysis Australian Notes Cover title One of the Library's John Ryan Comic Collection copies is missing its cover, making it impossible to identify which issue it is. ANL Numbering Earlier issues lack numbering and dates; numbering starts with no. 7 Notes "Cross published The Winks, on 20 April 1940. The strip employed a domestic comedy theme and was basically a toned down version of You & Me. In the initial stages, these characters were given their own weekly strip, Tidley Winks & Wally. The Winks were only moderately popular until Cross decided to change the strip's direction and take the main characters into the Army. Mr Winks became Major Winks on 15 July 1940 and the strip was renamed Wally and the Major. Over the 30 years in newspapers and in 18 annual comic books (c.1943-60), readers were able to enjoy the extraordinary, knock-about adventures and lifestyle of Private Wally Higgins, Major Winks, Pudden Bensen and a company of comedy players - in the army in World War II, and afterwards on their North Queensland sugarcane plantation. He continued to produce the strip until failing eyesight forced him to get help with the drawings early in 1970" -- Wikipedia Description based on: No. 7 Subject Characters and characteristics -- Comic books, strips, etc. Characters and characteristics -- Periodicals. Men -- Comic books, strips, etc. Men -- Periodicals. Australian wit and humor -- Comic books, strips, etc. Australian wit and humor -- Periodicals. Comic books, strips, etc. -- Australia -- Periodicals. Genre/Form Comics (Graphic works) Graphic novels. Periodicals.

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