Spillane was banned in Britain which meant that most likely
his books would have been unavailable in Australia in the
50's. US paperbacks were kept out of Australia by legislation
designed to protect the homegrown publishing industry while
UK paperbacks were freely available. I would think that the
New English Library (who published any Signet books in the
UK) held all the rights to British Commonwealth publication.
If the books were banned in the UK it may be that they didn't
consider it financially worthwhile to publish the books just
for the small Aussie market. So, I don't think Spillane was
ever officially banned (I could be wrong but I've found no
evidence of Spillane being banned). It may be that the
Australian authorities of the time, who were by no means
averse to banning books, didn't consider it an issue as there
was no local publisher of the books.
> I'm passing along a question from Dr. Toni Margaret
Johnson-Woods
> <
t.johnsonwoods@uq.edu.au> of the University of
Queensland in
Australia.
>
> | I wanted to know if Mickey Spillane was banned in
Australia? I know
_V
> | is M_ was banned in New Zealand but can't seem to
find anything
about
> | Australia. (I am writing an article on Australian
hard boiled
ficiton
> | of the 1950s.
>
> If you know, please drop her a note, or reply to the
list and copy her
so
> we all know.
>
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