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Issue: Dime Comics #23
Publication Date: October 1945
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Issues: #23 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: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 15 (10 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, crime
Feature(s): Drummy Young
Character(s): Drummy Young; Ziggy Eldridge; Joe Chrysler
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Based on a scene from the Drummy Young story.
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Presenting a Free Cut-Out Mask of Ross Saakel's Mighty Mite The "Noodle"

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Noodle
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: A cut-out mask of The Noodle running across the interior front and interior back covers.

There is a version of this issue featuring a mask of Thunderfist.
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United Nations' Counter-Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction
Feature(s): Rex Baxter
Character(s): Adolf Hitler; Paul; Rex Baxter; Gail Abbot; Hermann Goering
First Line: Reports! Reports from war correspondents!... Information from "authoritative sources"!
Synopsis: March, 1945, Hitler plans to escape Germany and go to Atlantis.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Buz and His Bus
Character(s): Buz
First Line: Yes! It's "Buz" and his bus rolling along on their regular run!
Synopsis: A ventriloquist and his dummy get on the bus.
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Pages: 3
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Nitro
Character(s): Nitro [Terry Allen]; Lynn Merriel; "Slappy" Simms; Dr. Philps
First Line: Buy war bonds! This is a cry of patriotic Canadians as they pool their personal wealth for the defense of their beloved Canada.....
Synopsis: While Nitro is stopping a bank robbery, his fiance is shot.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Once again Nitro's secret identity is called Terry Allen instead of Terry King.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Mongoose
Character(s): The Mongoose; Tom
First Line: It's getting late Tom - We'd better stay here tonight and move on in the morning
Synopsis: The Mongoose stays at a hotel that catches on fire.
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Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Super Sub
Character(s): Steve Sparks; Rocky Abbott
First Line: -Yes, I think that might work - When do we start? We're only 150 miles from Atta-
Synopsis: Flying over the island of Atta, Steve spots mines in the water before a rocky cliff.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Wacky Willy!
Character(s): Wacky Willy
First Line: Take it Jackson!!!!!
Synopsis: Willy has to decide if he should steal a bike so he can get a job.
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Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Drummy Young
Character(s): Drummy Young; Ziggy Eldridge; Joe Chrysler; Frankie
First Line: We find Drummy and Ziggy, his ace trumpeter, strolling through a busy quarter of Capital City after a recording date..
Synopsis: Drummy figures out how Nazi subs are getting shipping information from the radio broadcasts.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, war
Feature(s): Lank the Yank
Character(s): Lank
First Line: Here's Lank aboard a "sub" headed for Tokyo Bay - yes we said Tokyo Bay!!!
Synopsis: Lank is disguised as a Japanese person to get a close-up view of how much damage the B-29 bombing raids are doing to Tokyo.
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Pages: 3
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Johnny Canuck
Character(s): Johnny Canuck; Captain Roberts
First Line: Revenge me, Johnny Canuck!
Synopsis: Johnny makes an effort to escape the Japanese prison, with the old man he befriended dying during the attempt. Johnny reaches the camp's airfield and flies a stolen craft back to Allied lines.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Leo Bachle's final Johnny Canuck story.

The story is "inspired" by the Blackhawk story in Military Comics #28 (Quality) and a number of panels are flipped images from the Blackhawk story.
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Checker Solitaire

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
First Line: Take a piece of lumber - 8" square by 3/4" thick - divide with pencil into 1" squares.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: How to make and play a solitaire checker board, plus some cut-out puzzles.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Chik 'n' Fuzz
Character(s): Chik; Fuzz
First Line: Chik and Fuzzy - after drifting for some time in an open boat
Synopsis: Chik and Fuzz's trick of pretending to be Neptune and his servant is seen through.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Decoy Duck

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Young's Whittle Craft
First Line: This whittled duck can be used as a bathtub toy or as an ornament.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: How to make a wooden duck.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Surprise your boy with a gift Play-Gun!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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