I admittedly know almost nothing about Australian comic books so hopefully you’ll excuse me for mostly just cutting and pasting information from various websites. Jet Fury was the creation of Yaroslav Horak who made a name for himself in Australia in the 50′s for creating The Mask, a crime fighter in a vaguely skull like mask which could magically change to duplicate anyone’s face. It was supposedly a big seller for Atlas Comics until the state of Queensland banned the comic under the belief that a full mask was “evil” (!) after which he abandoned the feature. One site suggested that his character was “stolen and plagiarized by the producers of the Mask movies” which seems highly implausible (to be polite) considering how obscure the character is everywhere other than Austrlian. Plus they author seems to be unaware of the Golden Age character The Face (who probably has a better claim) or the “movie character” first appeared in comics.

He also worked on a number of other features, including Captain Fortune…

…before moving to England where he drew the James Bond comic strip.

Again, I don’t know much about Australian comics, but I know what I like, and I really like this.