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Big Bad Banksia Man

Little Boy from Manly

Malley, Ernest Lalor (Ern)

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Fictional character

Big Bad Banksia Man

Character from May Gibb's comic strip Adventures of Bib and Bub.

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Fatty Finn

Child cartoon character first drawn by Syd Nicholls, who became the protagonist in films The Kid Stakes (1927) and Fatty Finn (1980).

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Felix the cat

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Cartoon character credited to Sydney-born artist Pat Sullivan. There is some debate as to whether the character was actually created by Otto Mesmer, another animator in Sullivan's American studio.

Fisher's Ghost

The alleged ghost of Frederick Fisher, who was murdered by his business partner George Worrall at Campbelltown in 1826. The mythical spirit was supposed to have appeared sitting on a fence pointing to where Fisher's body lay buried. The ghost story first appeared in print in the poem 'The Sprite of the Creek' published in the weekly sporting journal 'Hill's Life in New South Wales' in August 1832.

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Little Boy from Manly

Character personifying New South Wales, created by cartoonist Livingston Hopkins, for the Bulletin magazine in 1885.

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Louie the Fly

Cartoon character in an advertisement created for Mortein in 1957 by Bryce Courtenay.

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Malley, Ernest Lalor (Ern)

Fictitious poet created by James McAuley and Harold Stewart. The poetry was to become one of Australia's greatest literary hoaxes humiliating Max Harris, the founder of the magazine 'Angry Penguins' who published them in his role as a champion of modernist poetry.

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Mr Sheen

Brand of furniture and floor polish using the advertising character of a rosy cheeked, bald man with spectacles and dark suit.

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