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A Word About Reprints
The Jane comic strip ran in The Daily Mirror from 5 December 1932 to 10 October 1959. The strip was also published in Australia, Canada, Italy and (briefly) the United States.
Following th strip's demise, a tribute volume, Farewell to Jane, was published in 1960, reprinting some wartime material.
The next reprint was the previously mentioned Jane at War. Published in 1976, this huge volume reprinted all of the WWII strips, starting with the 4 September 1939 strip, which was right in ther middle of the "Jane's Love Story" continuity that began in the fall of 1938, and ended with the strip for 14 August 1945, right in the middle of the "Jane's Summer Idyll" storyline, which had begun that previous June.
In 1983, there was a reprint tie-in to the Jane TV series, also with that title, reprinting the "Hush-Hush House" story (the basis for the first series of the TV show) and a later Mike Hubbard-illustrated continuity, "Nature in the Raw" (1951), which has our Jane at a nudist colony.
The Jane at War book was partially reprinted in 1994, containing less than 3/4 of the original volume (plus, it came with a handy slipcase! ).
Finally, there's The Misadventures of Jane, published in 2009, which reprints "NAFFI Say Die" and "Jane at the Front" from the 1976 volume. The book also contains some never-before reprinted material from Pett's Jane's Journal magazine, including a few spot illustrations and a couple of multi-page stories, all in full color, printed on glossy stock paper.
As far as I know, none of the original Jane's Journal-The Diary of a Bright Young Thing strips published between 5 December 1932 and 31 March 1938, the serial strips published between 1 April 1938 and 2 September 1939, nor any of Pett's strips done after the war and before he relinquished the feature to Hubbard in the late 1940s have ever been reprinted in full (Though I believe Hubbard's stuff was republished in Australia in the 50s...anyone having any definite info of this, please feel free to correct me).
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