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.

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

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.