The Comic Book Boom

By Dr Kevin Patrick Comic Adventures SL Magazine Autumn 2015 pg 10

"The end of newsprint rationing and removal of the wartime embargo on the launch of new periodicals led to a boom in Australian comic book publishing in the late 1940s. Despite renewed competition from American comics now being reprinted under licence by Australian firms, FJP held its own with two new series, Gem Comics and True Pirate Comics".