Ben Bowyang (1 results)

Published for The herald & Weekly Times. Oblong 8vo. pp.50. plus advertsements. Cartoon strip style. Stapled wrappers with some rust to the staples else a very good copy.in original pictorial wrappers. "Ben Bowyang was an Australian newspaper comic strip, first published in the Melbourne Herald on Saturday, 7 October 1933, created by the cartoonist Alex Gurney, that followed the misadventures of two archetypical Australian bushmen, Ben Bowyang and his mate, Bill Smith, of "Gunn's Gully": characters that first appeared in the humorous Herald columns written during the 1920s and 1930s by C. J. Dennis. ".…