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Issue: Commando Comics #15
Publication Date: January 1945
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Issues: #15 of 22 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagBell Features
Brand:
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: 17 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: full colour covers; black and white interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint 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): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Ace Bradley
Character(s): Ace Bradley
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ted Steele
Inker(s): Ted Steele
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Mike Rafone
First Line: A gift for you!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: A cut-out mask printed across the interior front and back covers.
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The Mystery of Magon Part 2 (Conclusion)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jon Darian
Penciller(s): Jon Darian
Inker(s): Jon Darian
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Clift Steele
Character(s): Clift Steele; Frank Hillary; Will Saakel; Commander Koma
First Line: That's the signal! Bring the gyro up to flight deck! We go into action ---- at once!
Synopsis: Clift and Will go to pick up Frank.
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Miscellaneous
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): Kernel Korn
Character(s): Kernel Korn; Junior
First Line: Boy Kernel! Look at that snow. It's really comin' down!
Synopsis: The Kernel tells of a time he worked on the Trans-Siberia Railway.
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry Lazare
Penciller(s): Jerry Lazare
Inker(s): Jerry Lazare
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): The Young Commandos
Character(s): Capt. Reddy; Mike Dutton; Chuck "Porky" Gordon; Major Dawson; Miss Drew; Kato Aomori [René Dupré]
First Line: A hotel room somewhere in London......
Synopsis: The Young Commandos are assigned to track down a Japanese spy.
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Pages: 6
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Keith
Penciller(s): Frank Keith
Inker(s): Frank Keith
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Whoop-Um!
Character(s): Chief Slug-in-th'-Snoot
First Line: Th' Chief is gonna get all dolled up for his weddin' - he just got measured for a new blanket!!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Four one-panel cartoons.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Keith
Penciller(s): Frank Keith
Inker(s): Frank Keith
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Th' Chief
First Line: Your squaw will like one - it will take big load off her back, Chief!
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): E. C. Letkeman
Penciller(s): E. C. Letkeman
Inker(s): E. C. Letkeman
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, war
Feature(s): Flame Berns
Character(s): Mike; Flame Berns [Carl Von Schmitt]; Major Collins; Kurt Schneider; Fritz; Kommandant Kessler; Elsa Kessler; Wagner
First Line: On the German-American front in Italy a lone German Messerschmitt plane is speeding towards an American-held air-base.
Synopsis: Flame Berns is chosen to replace a German pilot he resembles to find information on a new German weapon, the acid-cloud.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: To be continued last issue... yes, they printed the ending before the beginning.
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Circus Cyclone or the Muddled Mud Opera

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry Lazare
Penciller(s): Jerry Lazare
Inker(s): Jerry Lazare
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Captain Clarence Q. Cook; Barker Baker; Sam Slick; Arms; Lora; Nero
First Line: Lookee - lookee! Step right up folks and see the greatest show on Earth! For ten cents, one dime, a tenth part of a dollar you can thrill to the most marvelous mix-up of mugs that ever filled the big top!
Synopsis: Rival circus owner, Sam Slick, sends a pickpocket to Cook's circus to get the townspeople riled up.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Swiped from The Barker story from National Comics #43.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Adrian Dingle
Inker(s): Adrian Dingle
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Nelvana [Alana North]; John Keene
First Line: Starting in the next issue of Triumph Comics!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo for the start of the Ether People storyline (Triumph Comics #24).
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Leo Bachle
Penciller(s): Leo Bachle
Inker(s): Leo Bachle
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): The Invisible Commando
Character(s): Lee Pierce; King Lando; Bill
First Line: Hey what is this? I thought.... Why you dirty little traitor!
Synopsis: Lee discovers he has been captured by head hunters.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): M. Peterson
Penciller(s): M. Peterson
Inker(s): M. Peterson
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, war
Feature(s): Sergeant Sam
Character(s): Sergeant Sam
First Line: Fellows - this reminds me of the time I had to fight a thousand Germans single-handed during the last war!! There I was -- out in the open---
Synopsis: While under fire, the sergeant tells his men of an earlier battle.
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Alfred Zusi [as Caz]
Penciller(s): Alfred Zusi [as Caz]
Inker(s): Alfred Zusi [as Caz]
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Chick Tucker
Character(s): Chick Tucker; Michael Monaghan; Pablo; Miss Marcelle
First Line: In Chick Tucker's apartment
Synopsis: Chick is going down to Maraguena when a coup occurs.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Thomson ?
Penciller(s): Harry Thomson
Inker(s): Harry Thomson
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Ace Bradley
Character(s): Ace Bradley; The Spymaster; Rami
First Line: Ace Bradley, disguised as a Hindu, is returning from a secret mission on the Burma frontier.
Synopsis: Ace encounters the Spymaster.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Ace recognizes the Spymaster whom he thought killed when a dancing girl threw a knife in his throat, which is what happened to the Spymaster in the Whiz Wallace story in Wow Comics #17. Could this be an unused Whiz Wallace script rewritten for Ace?
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Adrian Dingle
Penciller(s): Adrian Dingle
Inker(s): Adrian Dingle
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): The Sign of Freedom
Character(s): Jimmie Clarkson; Karen Van Bergner; Louis Gaspard
First Line: P/O Jimmie Clarkson is helping Karen Von Bergner to reach England with valuable information for British Intelligence.
Synopsis: Jimmie and Karen head for England, but Gaspard is still on the loose.
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Pages: 5
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"Well, well, here's "Loop" travelling over Germany in a "helicopter"!!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Brunt
Penciller(s): Harry Brunt
Inker(s): Harry Brunt
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, war
Feature(s): Loop the Droop
Character(s): Loop; Adolf Hitler
Synopsis: Loop drops in on Hitler.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Judge Jitter

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jon Darian
Inker(s): Jon Darian
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Judge Jitter
Synopsis: The Judge tries a man who has a copy of Colossal Comics.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo in comic strip form.

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