became frustrated with the limitations of the strip and on 10 June 1928 he introduced an adventure theme by involving Fatty in fanciful tales of pirates, cannibals and highwaymen. The editor, Errol Knox, was not impressed and Nicholls reverted to the accepted style of comic. In June 1929 he introduced another adventure sequence but was again discouraged by Knox. In 1930 The Sunday News was amalgamated with The Sunday Guardian (which had become the home of Meggs) and the two comic characters were forced to co-exist in the one colour supplement. In 1931 Nicholls travelled to the United States returning in 1932, where having left enough to cover his absence, he continued producing Fatty Finn. In May 1933 he was sacked by his then editor, Eric Baume, without explanation. The last episode of Fatty Finn to run in the Sunday Sun appeared on 18 June 1933. Nicholls subsequently teamed up with another artist, Stan Clements, to start the first ever locally produced weekly comic book. Fatty Finn's Weekly was launched on 20 May 1934 as a black and white eight tabloid pages of comics and text, with a spot colour cover. Fatty Finn made an appearance and Nicholls' also contributed a center spread continuity strip called "Forest of Fear". The rest of the comic featured Australian artists only, with other strips such as Basso the Bear and Pam and Pospsy Penguin by 'Hotpoint' and Ossie by George Little. While there was text below each frame, the panels contained word balloons. The ninth issue is a series of coupons - three of which made the sender a member of "Fatty Finn's Club" (complete with membership certificate and a badge). Nicholls then approached Frank Packer, who took over the publishing of the comic in November 1934. Under the new management the size of the comic increased to sixteen pages, a red tint added to the covers and centrespread, and the price increased from 1d to 2d. Packer also added a US strip, Brick Bradford but did not increase the volume of comic strips instead padding out the additional pages with text. Nicholls disagreed with the direction that the comic book was taking. The comic struggled before folding in early 1935. Fatty Finn was later published in the Sunday Guardian from 1934. When the Guardian folded the strip re-emerged in December 1951, after an absence of almost 20 years, when it appeared in