Adam Magazine Gallery

Australian men's adventure magazine Adam, in common with it's American counterparts, featured luridly painted covers depicting damsels in a  variety of distresses. No cover credits are on these but I suspect they're all the work of Phil Belbin with his signature adorning at least one cover.

Magic Town - Phil Belbin

During 1948 and 1949 Phil Belbin produced comic adaptions of RKO Radio pictures for K G 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.

 

 

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

Read Belbin's adaption of The Bishop's Wife here. 

The Bishop's Wife - Phil Belbin

The Bishop's Wife, part of a series of RKO films adapted by Phil Belbin in the late 1940's for Cavalcade magazine. Read Belbin's adaption of Out Of The Past here.

The non-trailer for The Bishop's Wife.

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

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.