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.

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.

  

 

Phil Belbin

One of Australia's finest adventure comic illustrators, Phillip Bertram Johstone Belbin (1925-1993) produced a prolific output of work across K. G. Murray's stable of magazines and comics through the forties to the seventies. A quantity of Belbin's early work went unsigned (in particular paperback covers) and he was also known to use pseudonyms which included Humph, Fillini, Pittsburgh and Duke as well as his own name.

Read Belbin's Kath King - Diamonds of Death here.

Read a biography of Belbin by Greg Ray here.

Following illustrations and cartoons are from Man Junior magazine from 1950's - 1970's.

 

Source: http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/pbelbin.html, ACE biographical portraits : the artists behind the comic book characters : the Australian comic book exhibition, Melbourne State Library.

Kath King - Sydney Ockenden & Phil Belbin

Kath King by Sydney Ockenden & Phil Belbin from Cavalcade Vol 16 No 6 Nov 1952