I've started reading the history of the series, with the author's Bio, a bonus with the albums... The guy never set a foot in Australia, he was Belgian ( comics are a Belgian specialty in Europe, TinTin and all...) and probably didn't speak English. But the Australian context is somehow accurate ( for what I can tell
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). And it started ten years before the Skippy TV shows...
A good series that never became so famous, never had hard cover albums when published in Spirou Magazine.
That's why I post these and Blek le Roc: you English-speakers don't know about them...
And stories were real good, surprisingly intense sometimes: the first one has a psycho-kid torturing animals and poor Sandy got strangled, beaten or fired at repeatedly. And bad guys were rather realistic, conflicted and acting for often prosaic or mundane reasons...
Even Sandy was quite interesting and realistic: acting on impulses, starting fights... And he changed physicaly during all the stories, somethnig you rarely see in kids comics. Toward the end he drove cars and got girls
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don't run ! I'm friendly ...