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Issue: Wow Comics #8
Publication Date: July 1942
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Issues: #8 of 30 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagBell Features
Brand: Colonial Distributors Bell FeaturesView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Bell Features and Publishing Company Limited
On Sale Date: 05/30/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 CAD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 24 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Active Comics #4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour covers; colour interior (#1-8); black and white interior (#9 and on)
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Edmond Good (signed)
Inker(s): Edmond Good (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Crash Carson
Character(s): Dart Daring; Jeff Waring; Crash Carson; Whiz Wallace
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Pages: 1
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The tailor bird - actually stitches together two leaves with caterpillar silk to form his nesting place.

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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Strange Facts Scrapbook
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The Great White Hazard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): E. T. Legault ?
Penciller(s): E. T. Legault (signed)
Inker(s): E. T. Legault (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, historical
Feature(s): Dart Daring
Character(s): Loraine Knight; Dart Daring; Raoul Martin
First Line: While on their way eastward toward the Rocky Mountains, Dart comes upon Black Bill, his mortal enemy, who is selling whiskey to some Indians.
Synopsis: Dart and Loraine join Raoul who is searching for a pass over the mountains.
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Pages: 12
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What Would You Do With Hitler and His Gang? Contest Winners

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Character(s): Adolf Hitler; Hermann Goering; Josef Goebbels; Benito Mussolini; Hirohito; John Bull
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: List of winners.
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You Can Be Johnny Canuck of Dime Comics

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Johnny Canuck
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Ad for a light-up pen.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): T. A. Steele
Penciller(s): T. A. Steele (signed)
Inker(s): T. A. Steele (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Laff Anyway
Character(s): Ambrose
First Line: Don't you think we're flying a trifle high?
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): T. A. Steele
Penciller(s): T. A. Steele (signed)
Inker(s): T. A. Steele (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Smoky
Character(s): Smoky
First Line: I'm counting on you, to point me out a nice fat pheasant.
Synopsis: Smoky and his owner go hunting.
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Mitsubishi Kakigane M. K. II

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, non-fiction
Feature(s): Wings of All Nations
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Murray Karn (credited)
Inker(s): Murray Karn (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jeff Waring
Character(s): Kay Allen; Professor Allen; Jeff Waring; Temoc; Flagg; Pedro; President Cordova
First Line: The alligator approaches Kay after tossing her off it's back.
Synopsis: The Allen expedition finds the lost city of Calizar.
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Pages: 12.5
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Active Comics

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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lou Skuce
Penciller(s): Lou Skuce
Inker(s): Lou Skuce
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Blackouts
First Line: Hey - what's th' matter with your lights?
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Sir Archibald Percival Wavell

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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Feature(s): Great Men
Character(s): Sir Archibald Percival Wavell
First Line: Commander in Chief of the Allied forces in the far east
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Pages: 1
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Can You Write a Thrilling Story For the Comic Books?

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Why Not Subscribe Now?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): T. A. Steele
Penciller(s): T. A. Steele (signed)
Inker(s): T. A. Steele (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Time Out
Character(s): T. A. Steele; George (beaver)
First Line: We're shootin' craps in the fo'cs'le when all of a sudden, in comes the skipper.
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Pages: 1
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Dick Korda's World Record Holder

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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): J. Tremblay
Penciller(s): J. Tremblay
Inker(s): J. Tremblay
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Crash Carson
Character(s): Crash Carson; Tank Mulligan; Flight Commander Taylor
First Line: Across war-torn skies goes "Crash" Carson, leading his gallant squadron of Devil's Angels in a bloody struggle against the fiendish Nazis.
Synopsis: Tank is shot down and Crash goes to pick him up.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): T. A. Steele
Penciller(s): T. A. Steele (signed)
Inker(s): T. A. Steele (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Time Out
First Line: Turn off that mystery play... it gives me the creeps.
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A Phoenician Ship 1100 B.C.

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? [as Kinsley]
Inker(s): ? [as Kinsley]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Seamanship
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Look For This Trademark

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The Space Dweller

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): E. T. Legault ?
Penciller(s): E. T. Legault (signed)
Inker(s): E. T. Legault (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Whiz Wallace
Character(s): Whiz Wallace; Elaine Kenyon
First Line: Whiz Wallace and Elaine Kenyon, having braved many great perils on the invisible planet, Vezara, are making plans to return to their own world, the good mother Earth.
Synopsis: Whiz and Elaine head back to Earth, but are caught in a weird section of space.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lou Skuce
Penciller(s): Lou Skuce
Inker(s): Lou Skuce
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Whata Life!
First Line: How can you say - go plump - politely!!!
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lou Skuce
Penciller(s): Lou Skuce
Inker(s): Lou Skuce
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: You seem very 'appy about it, wot's up?
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The Standard Book of Formulas

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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