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Issue: Active Comics #3
Publication Date: April 1942
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Issues: #3 of 38 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagBell Features
Brand: Colonial DistributorsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Commercial Signs of Canada
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; black and white interior (issue #1-28); full colour (#29 and on)
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Brain Battles the Mummy

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Brain
Character(s): The Brain [Gordon Bell]; Thunderfist [Randy Steele]; Captain Red Thortan; Wayne Dixon of the Mounted; The Mummy Man
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Main picture on cover is of The Brain punching a mummy with a skull face.
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Club News & Views

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset; ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Active Jim
Synopsis: Letters and addresses of Active Comics Club Members.
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Pages: 1
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The Brain and the Mummy Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): The Brain
Character(s): The Brain [Gordon Bell]; The Mummy Man; Boris; Toro; Active Jim
First Line: The Mummy Man a hideous fiend who gains supernatural powers in Egypt... comes to Canada as a merciless enemy to kill, rob and destroy all that Canada represents justice, peace and happiness.
Synopsis: The Brain psychically contacts the Mummy Man who then kidnaps a girl to lure him to a graveyard. The Brain falls into a grave, but then flies out. The Mummy Man runs away with the girl. The Brain rescues her and the Mummy Man and his gang are destroyed. The last panel introduces Active Jim.
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Pages: 11
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous
Feature(s): Active Jim
Character(s): Active Jim; Joan Brian (his secretary)
First Line: So you're looking for Active Jim too...
Synopsis: Sort-of an ad for the Active Club. Coupon on last page says to send to "Bell Feature and Publishers".
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Pages: 3
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Who is Wild Bill

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Wild Bill
Character(s): Wild Bill Wildman
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Reprint Notes: from Dime Comics (Bell Features, 1942 series) #3 [first page of Adventure of Wild Bill, with Indian saying "Chief say no wantum fight with white brothers."]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Pioneer Passengers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): The Flight Parade
Character(s): Marquis d'Arlandes
First Line: The Maquis d'Arlanders was the first passenger of the air--
Synopsis: Pioneer passengers. Balloon ride: The Marquis d'Arlandes.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: d'Arlandes is also spelled d'Arlanders.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Capt. Red Thortan
Character(s): Captain Red Thortan; Carole Powell
First Line: Great Scott! A tiger!.... Keep back Miss. Powell!
Synopsis: (Continued from last issue) Red kills the tiger. He and Carole escape the pit. Red takes over a Japanese tank but ends up going over a cliff. (to be continued).
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Pages: 14
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[untitled]

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First Line: Oh, I love a parade!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo for Joke Comics.
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The Greatest Contest Ever In Comic Magazines

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Subject Matter
Character(s): Dart Daring; Lorraine Knight; Jeff Waring; Kay Allen; Whiz Wallace; Elaine Kenyon; Rex Baxter; Gail Abbot; Kenneth "Scotty" MacDonald; Johnny Canuck; Wild Bill Wildman; Thunderfist [Randy Steele]; Wayne Dixon; Lad; Red Thortan; The Brain [Gordon Bell]
Synopsis: Ad for a contest to write a letter saying what Bell Comic character you like and win a bike, a wristwatch or a fountain pen.
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Look! Easily Built Models Sent By Mail

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Synopsis: Ad for Model airplanes from the Trans-Canada Mail Order Company.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dixon of the Mounted
Character(s): Wayne Dixon; Mad Griffin; Ruth Barton; Gat Burke; Lad
First Line: Dixon leaps to meet the fiend's murderous attack. He succeeds in checking the blow but
Synopsis: (Continued from last issue) Dixon is captured by the half-Devil who reveals that he steals furs from the Indians. Dixon unmasks him and finds Mad Griffin, a criminal maniac from the Yukon. Gat Burke, his associate, arrives by plane and captures Dixon. Lad, Dixon's dog, arrives as he is about to be destroyed by a bomb and Dixon and Ruth escape.
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Pages: 14
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50 Free Prize Winners

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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Winners from the "What Would You Do Contest" from Active Comics #1. Names and Addresses.
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Pages: 1
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This Month's Message to Members

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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Active Jim's Active Club
Character(s): Active Jim
Synopsis: Active Jim's monthly message to members of the Active Club. Includes code to use a special code-wheel on.
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Pages: 1
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Thunderfist vs. Giant Robot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): Thunderfist
Character(s): Thunderfist [Randy Steele]; Beverley Holmes
First Line: One quiet evening a whirling object not unlike that of a waterspout streaks out of the clouds.
Synopsis: Thunderfist battles a giant robot and evil people on a rocket.
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Pages: 13.5
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Tell Your Friends These

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Jean; Mrs. Smith
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Half page of jokes at the end of Thunderfist.
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Character(s): Dart Daring; Jeff Waring; Whiz Wallace
First Line: Read our other comic books too!
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Reprint Notes: from Wow Comics (Bell Features, 1941 series) #7 [cover]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.66
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What the Well Dressed Man Won't Wear

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: 1941
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Pages: 0.34
Disclose Notes: This part of the page also includes the indicia for the comic, stating publication by "Commercial Signs of Canada". No date listed.
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Start 'Em Flying to Keep 'Em Flying!

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Continued from ad inside issue.

Ad for model planes.

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