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Issue: Joke Comics #1
Publication Date: March 1942
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagBell Features
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Commercial Signs of Canada
On Sale Date: 03/15/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 54 (21 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Date estimate based on an ad inside for Dime Comics #2 "now on sale".

On sale date from the indicia for issue 23.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; 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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Cover, Front
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Digital Edition
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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various
various
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Subject Matter
humorous
An' I sez to Lord Nelson - sayz I!!
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Say ain't you fellows gonna work!
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Lou Skuce
Lou Skuce
Lou Skuce
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Blackouts
Private Jones
Private Jones didn't wait for the official blackout but has two all his own-
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Three one-panel cartoons and one three-panel comic.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
What's wrong? Lose something?
A police man questions a drunk in the street.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Burt
Burt
Burt
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Subject Matter
humorous, war
I beg to report a direct hit sir!
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Crossword No. 1

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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
?; typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Joe
Did yo'all miss that train mister?
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Three two-panel comics, three one-panel cartoons and a magic trick.
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Optical Illusions

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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The divided line ".B:C". appears to be longer than A-B But they are exactly the same length
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Lou Skuce
Lou Skuce
Lou Skuce
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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
We'd better try and look sad till teacher gets away.
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Casey at the Bat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
typeset
Subject Matter
sports
Cooney; Burrows; Flynn; Blake; Casey
It looked extremely rocky for the Boston nine that day;
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An illustrated version of the poem, but with Boston substituted for Mudville.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Boys and girls join the new Active Club
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Burt
Burt
Burt
?
Subject Matter
humorous
McCool; Joe
No, McCool, we don't give marks for neatness in this war.
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Three one-panel cartoons.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
humorous
Rosenbloom
Good morning sir.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Speaking of coincidences a friend once told me I look like.....
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Cobalt
Listen - in a few years time people will look up at this studio and say Cobalt the great artist used to live and work there!
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Boys! Build One of These Flying Models

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Jack; Bud
Yes boys?
Two drunks get a hotel room.
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Three Color Cards

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Sidu Mako
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Subject Matter
Magic Sidu Mako teaches you! Easy tricks.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Mann Harris
Mel Crawford
Mel Crawford
?
Subject Matter
adventure, teen
The Three T's
Tom Adams; Terry Benson; Tubby [Ralph Henry]; Mr. Barnes; Henry [Hans]; Joe; Mr. Pearce; Mr. Adams; Mrs. Adams; Miss Adams; Rags; Leary
Gee - it's great to read about some of the things they're doing in the war - wish we could be in it!
Three Canadian boys wishing they could help in the war, discover a plot against the town munitions factory.
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Cash Prizes for Winners Contest

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Shop by Mail

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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?
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
?
Subject Matter
humorous, war
Smoke Screens
Jones
Attention! 4th interceptor squadron. Formation approaching runway no. 1!
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Four one-panel cartoons.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
?
Subject Matter
humorous, war
Adolph Hitler
I don't care if you are Hitler that'll be 10¢ each
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Three one-panel cartoons and one three-panel comic.
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Featured only in Dime Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Edmond Good
Edmond Good
?
Subject Matter
Rex Baxter; Gail Abbot
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The Splash page of the Rex Baxter story from Dime Comics #2.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Edmund Gault
Edmund Gault
Edmund Gault
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Catfish Junction
Luk
Im a telling ye dadgaritt!!
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Say chief, why doesn't the squaw ride?
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Edmund Gault
Edmund Gault
Edmund Gault
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Catfish Junction
Libby Muggens
After the railway had been run through Catfish Junction many exciting incidents occured, "Libby Muggens" had an awful fright one day.
Libby outruns the train.
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
humorous
Hey, sailor? Do you want these eggs turned over?
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
humorous
Catfish Junction
Zebb; Dee; Zack; Jake
Hey Zebb! A ship!!
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
?
Subject Matter
humorous
On the Campus
Is this formal or can I wear my own clothes?
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Two one-panel gags.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
humorous
Catfish Junction
Jock Jenkins
Jock Jenkins finds a dadgared good medicine for lumbago......
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[untitled]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Johnny; Mary
Johnny's mother told him there were two oranges in the pantry, and to take one himself and give the other to his sister.
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Two text jokes with illustrations.
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On a Sure Thing

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank Mann Harris
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
typeset
Subject Matter
sports
Bert Normand; Marge Normand; Skelley; Jergens; Whitey Fielding; Terry Edwards
How much dough have we got in the bank, honey?
Bert, goal-keeper for the Elephants Hockey team, tells his wife to bet $2000 on the opposing team.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ted Steele
Ted Steele
Ted Steele
?
Subject Matter
humorous, war
Private Stuff
Private Stuff; Adolf Hitler (picture); General Sourkrout
What a day! Spring has come! The sun is shining, the birds are out, I can even hear the little bees buzzing merily past my head!
Private Stuff is captured by the Germans.
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Answers to Puzzles and Tricks

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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
?
Subject Matter
humorous
You likee my tlacks? Okay so I makee more!
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0.22
Dialogue written in dialect.
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Shadowgraphs

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Rainy Day Pastimes
Rabbit
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Mike & Spike
Spike; Mike
Boy! It shure did rain!
Spike and Mike talk about the rain and catch a train.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
humorous
Maxie
Iy, iy, iy, Maxie! Vere iss your bizness sense?
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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?
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Subject Matter
humorous
I hear dot your fadder is dead.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
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Subject Matter
humorous
Couldn't you drive around me?
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Lou Skuce
Lou Skuce
Lou Skuce
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Friendships
If a friend does something you don't like, hesitate before you take any action about it-
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Pie-Eye Pete
Pie-eye Pete
Shay, buddy, hic c'mere will ya? C'mere!
A good samaritan tries to help Pete home.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Burt
Burt
Burt
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Magellen
"Magellen!" Get right back to that furnace!
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0.67
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
See answer page 48
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0.33
Crossword puzzle.
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Puzzles and Tricks

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Oscar
Oscar always loved to show off only yesterday he and his girl went into the drug store on Main Street to get a soda in paying the check Oscar took 5 straws...
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Page of puzzles, a cartoon and a comic.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Whopper Wats
Whopper Wats; Joey
Say Whopper, will you tell me about your farm?
Whopper tells of hunting on his farm.
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His Treasure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Lou Skuce
Lou Skuce
Lou Skuce
?
Subject Matter
humorous
A man jealously guards his sugar.
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1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
John O'Henly
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Sneeze [Ah Choo]; Jack
@xx-!!! @*?!!=xx
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Two comics and a cartoon.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
humorous
Why did you say you were Napoleon? Last week you said you were George Washington.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Burt
Burt
Burt
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Johnson
Shot down two enemy
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The Next Great Invasion!

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Lou Skuce
Lou Skuce
Lou Skuce
?
Subject Matter
humorous, sports
To the baseball stadiums
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Greatest Comic Characters of Them All!!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
Dart Daring; Rex Baxter; Dixon
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Called "Lightning" by the R.A.F.

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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?
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Back cover.

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