Century Comic #94
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeCentury Comic #94 is a rare piece of Southern Hemisphere comics history: an Australian anthology reprint title that brought brand-new DC Silver Age material to readers who had no access to American newsstands. By reprinting stories featuring Mera — who had only debuted in Aquaman #11 a matter of months earlier in September 1963 — this issue gave Australian audiences one of their first looks at the character who would eventually become queen of Atlantis and a Justice League member in her own right. The pairing of a freshly-minted Silver Age creation like Mera with the long-running Golden Age western character Dan Hunter, Tomahawk's frontier sidekick, illustrates the eclectic, cross-era anthology format that made K.G. Murray's reprint titles a distinctive slice of DC history outside North America.
In "The Doom From Dimension Aqua," Mera, a water-world queen with the power to command the seas, flees across dimensions to Earth’s oceans, pursued by the treacherous Leron, her former ruler. With the tide turning against her, she turns to Aquaman and Aqualad for help in a battle that spans the depths of the ocean and the edges of reality. Written by Jack Miller and brought to life with dynamic art by Nick Cardy—both interior and cover—this 1964 adventure from Century Comic #94 is a standout in the aquatic tales of the era.
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K.G. Murray was the dominant force in Australian comics publishing from the late 1940s onward, built on a foundation of DC Comics reprint licenses. The Century Comic series ran under that exact title from issue #64 through #106, having previously appeared as 'Century the Hundred Page Comic Monthly' (#1–44) and 'Century Plus Comic' (#45–63). Murray's thick anthology format allowed him to bundle multiple DC features — western, superhero, adventure — into a single high-page-count package aimed at the Australian and New Zealand market, where original American editions rarely circulated. No specific editorial or production notes for issue #94 have surfaced in searchable online sources.
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- Dated approximately April 1964 by the Grand Comics Database; part of the K.G. Murray 'Century Comic' run (#64–#106).
- Published in Australia by K.G. Murray, whose publishing empire was the primary conduit for DC Comics reprints in Australia from the late 1940s through the early 1970s.
- Contains a reprint featuring Mera, who made her original debut in Aquaman #11 (September 1963), written by Jack Miller with art by Nick Cardy — meaning this issue carried one of her earliest reprint appearances anywhere.
- Mera is a hydrokinetic queen from the extradimensional realm originally called 'Dimension Aqua'; she would go on to marry Aquaman in Aquaman #18 (December 1964), just months after this issue's publication.
- Also indexes Dan Hunter, the young frontier sidekick of DC western hero Tomahawk; both characters debuted together in Star-Spangled Comics #69 (June 1947), created by writer Joe Samachson and artist Edmond Good.
- Dan Hunter functioned as Tomahawk's junior partner — described by contemporaneous fan writing as a 'Robin-equivalent' — throughout the long-running Tomahawk feature in Star-Spangled Comics, World's Finest Comics, and the Tomahawk solo series.
- The Century Comic anthology format was typical of K.G. Murray's output: thick, multi-feature reprint packages that mixed genres (western, superhero, adventure) in a single issue for readers outside the US.
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Mera, a water-world queen from another dimension with the power to shape water to her will, is pursued into Earth's oceans by Leron, an usurper from her world, and she seeks the aid of Aquaman and Aqualad.
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