Your Tax Dollars At Work--You're A Drogo, Cobber!

Look, you can't expect to send our troops to serve in a foreign country without a guide, right?

But you civilians had best not be looking at this!

Damn straight!!

This was produced during WWII, and the library stamp is from May 1943, so there's your timeline.

First, you have to reassure the poor Americans stationed there that there is an important reason to be in Australia!

Then, lots of illustrated features to teach them local facts!

Then, the most important feature--what do Australians eat?!?

Clearly, Australians were an alien species. Look at that butter consumption!!

And then there is their freaky money!

Less freaky nowadays, thank goodness. 12 pennies to a shilling? 20 shillings to a pound? 21 shillings to a guinea? Who has time for all that math?!?!

And then there's the way they talk! The War Department felt obligated to publish this handy translation guide for U.S. soldiers!

Crikey!!

Why Aquaman Should Be Played By Paul Hogan (Or yahoo Serious?!?)!!

OK, my references are painfully out of date. I'm sure some amongst you can come up with younger, sexier Australian actors than Yahoo Serious.

Still, the point stands. Because Professor Togg has made a startling discovery in the outback:

What's so shocking? What requires the help of the Marvel Family?

OK, so he's a pretty crappy archeologist...

Well, a few millennia can't stop the Marvels!!

But what do they find?

Well, I guess you're OK in that regard, Aquaman!!

Hahaha, Atlantis a democracy!! Don't tell that to Aquaman or Namor!!

So, after many shenanigans...

And upon return to the present, the Marvels prove that all archeology is bullshit!

Australia was Atlantis!!!

So, really, if Arthur Curry doesn't speak with an Aussie accent in the new movies, you are completely justified in demanding a refund!!

From Marvel Family #39 (1949)