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Issue: Dime Comics #8
Publication Date: April 1943
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Issues: #8 of 34 Issues (35 Printings)
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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: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 22 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Black and white interior (issues 1 - 28); Colour interior (issues 29 and on); Colour covers
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Rex Baxter and the Island of Doom

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Rex Baxter
Character(s): Rex Baxter; Johnny Canuck; Wild Bill Wildman; Scotty MacDonald
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Hello! Acme Tailors? How long will it take to repair a pair of pants?
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Perilous Passage!

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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Rex Baxter
Character(s): Rex Baxter; Gail Abbot; Zoltan; Torzo; Riona; Lerzal
First Line: Following the treacherous underground watercourse -- the three fugitives suddenly find the water ending in a whirlpool - at a "dead end" tunnel
Synopsis: Rex attempts to rescue Queen Riona.
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Feature(s): Rex Baxter Adventurers Club News
First Line: Well kids! Here we are with a brand new "corner" all our own.
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Commando Comics

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The Return of Dirk Latrol!

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Genres: western
Feature(s): Wild Bill
Character(s): Wild Bill Wildman; Rex; Jane Calamity; Jeff Willards; Trigger; Dirk Latrol
First Line: I've been thinking over what Miss Jane's been telling me about there not being any room for six shooters in the new west... maybe she's right!
Synopsis: Wild Bill promises Jane he'll hang up his guns.
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Dizzy Don Detective

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Character(s): Dizzy Don; Shirley Watson
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Genres: war
Feature(s): Super Sub
Character(s): Steve Sparks; Rocky Abbott; Helen Johnston
First Line: Hey Steve look through this telescope ...hasn't that bottle got a note in it!!
Synopsis: The Super Sub rescues Helen, who escaped from the Japanese.
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Movie Alphabet Game

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First Line: First paste letters on cardboard and then cut them into 24 separate pieces
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Canada's Fastest-selling "Action" Comic Book

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Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Johnny Canuck
Character(s): Johnny Canuck; Holtz; Swartz; Baron von Reichmann; Hauptman
First Line: Your a treacherous imposter -- if your Johnny Canuck...
Synopsis: Johnny tries to convince the Cossacks he's their ally, but Holtz lies about him to the Cossacks and they decide to treat Johnny as a prisoner. Meanwhile, the Germans torture a Russian prisoner into divulging the location of their base. Soon, German soldiers are paratrooping into the area.
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Something New Has Been Added!

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Did you speak to the boss yet?!! About the honor system I suggested yesterday-- I can't get used to these muzzles.
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Joke Comics

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Torpedo Flight

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Genres: war
Character(s): Phil Hilton; Bill Hilton; Ted Hilton
First Line: The giant British aircraft carrier was plowing across the furious Mediterranean Ocean on its way toward Egypt, when the radio operator received a brief message.
Synopsis: After Phil's plane is shot down his brothers, Bill and Ted work to pick him up.
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Contest Winners of the Finish Drawing This Comic Contest

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Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Axis Grinders!
First Line: Kids who spend their cash on candy don't feel too well or look so dandy
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The Hunchback Strikes

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[untitled]

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Genres: war
Feature(s): Scotty MacDonald
Character(s): Ruis Van Beckon; Willem; Scotty MacDonald; Jim Metcafle; Rato
First Line: As Scotty's crippled seaplane hovers above a plantation
Synopsis: Van Beckon and Scotty must get to the coast.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Can't you forget your business even for one night?!!
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The Big 7

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Identoplane Kit

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