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Issue: Dime Comics #17
Publication Date: October 1944
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Issues: #17 of 34 Issues (35 Printings)
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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: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 16 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Partial index based on scans of some pages here: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6774605
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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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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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Pages: 1
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Look For the Bell Features on the Cover

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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Rex Baxter
Character(s): Rex Baxter; Gail Abbot; Zoltan
First Line: ---and the huge bomber speeds Rex and Gail on their search for Zoltan.
Synopsis: Rex and Gail land on the Jap prison island where Zoltan is captive.
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Pages: 7
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Cover Contest Winners

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Disclose Notes: Winners of a contest from the previous issue.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Nitro
Character(s): Nitro [Terry Long]; Professor Daniel Long; Slick; Bugs
First Line: I'm glad you came Terry!
Synopsis: Professor Long has invented a secret weapon and asks Terry's help to keep people from stealing it.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Casey Bones
Character(s): Casey Bones
First Line: So you're my new fireman, eh?
Synopsis: Casey has to deal with a new fireman.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: war
Feature(s): Scotty MacDonald
Character(s): Scotty MacDonald; Jim O'Hara; Tana
First Line: Gaining entrance to a Jap military aerodrome
Synopsis: Scotty, Jim and Tana escape Japan and fly to China.
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Pages: 6
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Pepper-Pot Catches a Spy!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Pepper-Pot
Character(s): Pepper Pot; Colin Wood [Carl Von Sphlieder]; Von Hoepplier
First Line: British Intelligence recalled Pepper Pot from a well-deserved holiday.
Synopsis: Pepper Pot must find Nazi spies in a construction unit.
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Pages: 5
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Murder For Music!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Drummy Young
Character(s): "Hunchy" Walker; Jack; Jim; Benny Dorsey; Drummy Young; Peggy Key; Ziggy Eldridge
First Line: Who's your bet as top band this year in Metrobeat Magazines band poll honey?
Synopsis: "Hunchy" Walker wants to be the top bandleader at any cost.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Japs are savages de same as us - but on a much larger scale!
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The Flying Fool

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: aviation
Character(s): Frank Kent
First Line: This is the diary of Frank Kent, dare-devil Canadian ace of the skies.
Synopsis: To avenge his kid brother's plane being shot down Frank steals a plane and attacks German targets.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Laff and Be Happy
Character(s): Joe; Rover; Frank; Butch; Alice; Bill
First Line: Is he a bird dog, Joe?
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Disclose Notes: Nine one-panel cartoons.
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Johnny Canuck Fighting the Japs!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Johnny Canuck
Character(s): Johnny Canuck; P. J. Stilts; Veda
First Line: That must be the Mary Ann now! I'll set this crate down beside her and look over the supplies for the generalissimo!
Synopsis: Johnny is on a yacht carrying guns and ammunition.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Goofy Gags
First Line: I thought I heard someone yell "fire"
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Disclose Notes: Four one-panel cartoons.
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Canada's Greatest Comic Magazines

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Just Think...

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Disclose Notes: Ad for Colossal Comics, a 300 page comic from Bell. On the back cover.

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