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Betty Roland

Betty Roland has 61 credited comics indexed across 4 series, working as writer.

Betty Roland was an Australian writer of plays, screenplays, novels, children's books and comics. Roland's early writing for theatre is mostly romantic drama or comedy. Her later work was agit prop and highly political. She also wrote the screenplay for what is claimed as the first Australian "talkie", Spur of the Moment, in 1932, credited as Betty M. Davies. She wrote a comic strip in the 1940s, The Conways, for the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1952 she moved to London, where she wrote for television and women's magazines, as well as children's books and comic strips for Girl and Swift. She returned to Australia in the early 1960s, continuing to write radio plays and children's books.