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Issue: Active Comics #22
Publication Date: March 1945
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Issues: #22 of 38 Issues
Title:
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: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 16 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour cover; Black and White interior (Issue #1-28), Full Colour (#29 and on)
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Adrian Dingle (signed) [as Dingle]
Inker(s): Adrian Dingle (signed) [as Dingle]
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Brain
Character(s): The Brain [Gordon Bell]; The Fox
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Pages: 1
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Now You Can Be the "Brain"!

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ted Steele
Inker(s): Ted Steele
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Brain [Gordon Bell]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: A cut-out mask printed across the interior front and back covers.

There is a version featuring a mask of Capt. Wonder instead.
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The Pay-Dirt Pugs!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Marc L. Borgatta
Penciller(s): Marc L. Borgatta
Inker(s): Marc L. Borgatta
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Dr. Blue and Blackie
Character(s): Dr. Blue; Blackie Hargrave; Pug Norton; Johnnie Baron
First Line: Dr. Blue and Blackie are in a fifth avenue tailor's store, Blackie is receiving his change.
Synopsis: Dr. Blue and Blackie deal with a counterfeiter.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Brunt
Penciller(s): Harry Brunt
Inker(s): Harry Brunt
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): J. C. Flatbottom
Character(s): J. C. Flatbottom; Count Basie
First Line: Hey guys!! Guess what?? We're going to play a "battle of bands" at the Roseband dance-hall!
Synopsis: J. C. and the gang are playing a battle of the bands against Count Basie, so they try to win using a record and turntable.
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Pages: 3
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Leo Bachle
Penciller(s): Leo Bachle
Inker(s): Leo Bachle
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Thunderfist
Character(s): Thunderfist [Randy Steele]; Joan Woods; Jack Gunn [Fred]
First Line: Sock
Synopsis: Joan Woods is kidnapped.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Joan refers to him as Fred, but the rest of the story calls him Jack Gunn.

There was a big mix-up with the two parts of this story. This issue has the first page for this part followed by 5 pages that should have run last issue.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Active Jim]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Active Jim's Club News and Views
Character(s): Active Jim
First Line: At the moment I am writing this, the war in Europe seems just about over... no doubt, by the time you read it... V-E Day may be here.
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fred Kelly
Penciller(s): Fred Kelly
Inker(s): Fred Kelly
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Capt. Red Thortan
Character(s): Red Thortan; Charlie
First Line: Gotta nail this baby, quietly
Synopsis: Red frees the two prisoners and they fight the Japanese running the camp.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fred Kelly
Penciller(s): Fred Kelly
Inker(s): Fred Kelly
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Cinder Smith
Character(s): Cinder Smith; Joe; Jack Smith
First Line: Seventeen year old Cinder Smith, the youngest member of a large family of railroad men, is about the happiest boy in the world!
Synopsis: Cinder Smith is in charge of a relay tower on a railway line, has to stop the express before it reaches a weakened bridge.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Patricia Joudry
Penciller(s): Doris Slater
Inker(s): Doris Slater
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Penny's Diary
Character(s): Penny Matthews; Jeanie Graham; Shirley Anderson; David Armstrong
First Line: But I've gotta find a hat that suits my personality!
Synopsis: Penny is trying to find just the right hat to impress a home-coming soldier.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Leo Bachle
Penciller(s): Leo Bachle
Inker(s): Leo Bachle
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Brain
Character(s): The Brain [Gordon Bell]; The Fox; Rose Contine
First Line: This dame complicates matters... I can't let her interfere with my plans to become king of the black market!
Synopsis: The Brain tracks the Fox to his lair.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ross Saakel
Penciller(s): Ross Saakel
Inker(s): Ross Saakel
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): The Noodle
Character(s): The Noodle [Jordan Chimes]; Henrietta
First Line: What weather! It isn't a fit night for man nor Hitler!
Synopsis: An ape has escaped from the zoo.
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Pages: 4
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White Man's Voodoo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fred Kelly
Penciller(s): Fred Kelly
Inker(s): Fred Kelly
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Betty Burd
Character(s): Betty Burd; Masawa; Issi
First Line: Sounds like there's someone running, down there...... there he is! Looks scared stiff!!
Synopsis: Betty sees a native supposedly killed by an angry thunder god.
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Pages: 4
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Sleeping Beauty!

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ross Saakel
Penciller(s): Ross Saakel
Inker(s): Ross Saakel
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): It's a Fact!
Character(s): Patricia Maguire
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Four one-panel cartoons about Patricia Maguire's long sleep, the triple balancing rocks, a phone booth shaped like a coffin and an eclipse that changed history.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Cal
Penciller(s): Cal
Inker(s): Cal
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Oolay the Eskimo
Character(s): Oolay
First Line: Ah - cub bear - me ketchum - he make good rug for igloo!
Synopsis: Ooolay tries to catch a bear cub on an iceberg.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fred Kelly
Penciller(s): Fred Kelly
Inker(s): Fred Kelly
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Active Jim
Character(s): Joan Brian; Active Jim; Kay Towne; Marty; Lois; Dean
First Line: Our story opens at the home of Kay Towne, where Joan Brian and Active Jim are attending a party...
Synopsis: Jim and Joan take part in a scavenger hunt.
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Pages: 4
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Plate No. 2. Longwinged Swimmers

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): René L. Kulbach
Penciller(s): René L. Kulbach
Inker(s): René L. Kulbach
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Know Your Birds
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Information and drawings on the herring gull, franklins gull, forsters tern, and double crested comorant.

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