Showing posts with label flash cain. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Kath King of Kismet Cove - Death -Down Deep





Kath King of Kismet Cove adventure comic by Phil Belbin and Sydney Ockenden from K. G. Murray magazine Cavalcade published September 1951.










Read Flash Cain -  House of Doom here.

Read Flash Cain - Killer at Hand here.

Read Kath KIng of Kismet Cove - Men of the Sickle Moon here.

Read Kath King - Memory for Faces here.

Read Kath King - Diamonds of Death here.

Read Belbin's adaption of RKO Movie Out of the Past here.

Samples of Belbin illustration work and cartoons here.

Read a biography of Belbin by Greg Ray here.
 
Images © 2013 Estate of Phil Belbin and Sydney Ockenden

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

House of Doom - Phil Belbin & Ray Heath

 

Before illustrating Kath King of Kismet Cove for Cavalcade, Phil Belbin produced the adventures of Private Detective Flash Cain debuting in April 1949 from scripts by Ray Heath. Flash Cain like other stories featured in K G Murray magazines was repackaged as a comic book.

 
Read Kath KIng of Kismet Cove - Men of the Sickle Moon here.

Read Kath King - Memory for Faces here.

Read Kath King - Diamonds of Death here.

Read Belbin's adaption of RKO Movie Out of the Past here.

Samples of Belbin illustration work and cartoons here.

Read a biography of Belbin by Greg Ray here.
  
Flash Cain adventure strip The House of Doom from March 1951 issue of Cavalcade.
 

 
 
 



Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Flash Cain - Phil Belbin & Ray Heath 1951




Before illustrating Kath King of Kismet Cove for Cavalcade, Phil Belbin produced the adventures of Private Detective Flash Cain debuting in April 1949 from scripts by Ray Heath. Flash Cain like other stories featured in K G Murray magazines was repackaged as a comic book.



 Flash Cain Covers from Ausreprints who host a wealth of information on K G Murray comics and other Australian publishers of reprint material.

 
Flash Cain adventure strip Killer Near At Hand from April 1951 issue of Cavalcade.









Images © 2013 Estate of Phil Belbin and Ray Heath

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Philp Belbin Film Adaption - Out Of The Past


For a brief period during 1948 and 1949 Phil Belbin produced comic adaptions of RKO Radio pictures for Murray magazine Cavalcade. Adaptions included Return of the Badman, Fort Apache, Magic Town, Night Song, Rachel and the Stranger, The Bishop's Wife,The Velvet Touch, If You Knew Suzie, The Miracle of the Bells and Out of the Past. The film adaptions were replaced in late 1949 with original comics featuring Flash Cain, Private Detective, illustrated by Belbin and written by Ray Heath. These were subsequently replaced by Kath King of Kismet Cove, the adventures of a female reporter, illustrated by Belbin and scripted by Sydney Ockenden.

Samples of Belbin illustration work and cartoons here.

Read Kath King - Diamonds of Death here.

Read a biography of Belbin by Greg Ray here.