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The Lone Avenger action #1 and Crimson Comet Printing plates

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robbbyg:
Id love to but i dont have the time :(

but i like them.
heres Len Lawsons, Flying Vigilantes from Action #4

These tell the story of Bruce (Buster) Brown, who in fact was an actual world war 2 RAAF pilot, the plane you see on the cover plate is the (polly) which he flew and is now on display at the Canberra War Museum

robbbyg:

Im working out a way to scan each page to get the detail and story to view easy,
will get back tomorrow night hopefully with some good info :),will take some time that lot is 2 layers thick  :'(

Yoc:
Wow, very interesting stuff!
Good luck Rob!

narfstar:
How were all these acquired Rob?

jfglade:
The printing plates are interesting. In the States, newspapers used to subscribe to comic strips and they were mailed cardboard dies into which they would pour barely molten lead to make "slugs" which were tapped into place for the printing plates of the comics page in a daily newspaper. I can remember, back in the late firties, waiting in the alley with newspaper delivery boys for the 'Riverton Ranger' while the press run was being divide up and counted out for home delivery, delivery to drugs stores, grocery stores, the town's only real hotel, and other outlets. There would be scrounging in the trash bins for the cardboard molds from which the slugs for the comics page had been cast. Dick Tracy molds were highly prized, with Okie Doaks running a close second, and descending all the way down to Mary Worth. The molds look somewhat like the printing plates you have, but with far less detail, and while the molds were distributed to small and large newspaper across the nation there was only a need for one printing plate per page of the Australian comics you name (or at least I think they are all Australian books). I'm amazed the printing plates survived. Newspaper printing techniques are much different now, and I would assume printing comics is probably different too.

 You've brought up some memories I haven't thought about for over fifty years, and I'm very curious to hear the story of how you acquired the printing plates.

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