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Issue: Active Comics #10
Publication Date: March 1943
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Issues: #10 of 38 Issues
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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: 1943
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 21 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dixon of the Mounted
Character(s): Wayne Dixon
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Pages: 1
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: It's from your wife, she wants to know why you don't write more often
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dixon of the Mounted
Character(s): Wayne Dixon; Red-Trapper; Checkers
First Line: Corporal Dixon on a new assignment to investigate the rumour of Marijuana being sold to Indians and halfbreeds...
Synopsis: Investigating the rumor of marijuana sold to Indians, Corporal Dixon follows a map taken from a dead trapper.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Joke Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Splash pages of various features from Joke Comics #7.
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The Alien World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Brain
Character(s): The Brain [Gordon Bell]; Betty Thompkins; Doctor Coffin; Napolean [Scarlet Zombie]
First Line: Release the girl Dr. Coffin or I'll break you in half!
Synopsis: Doctor Coffin sends Betty and the Brain to an alien world.
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Pages: 9
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Active Jim
Character(s): Active Jim
First Line: The other day while I was walking on the icy street...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: About the importance of learning first aid.
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Icebound Road to the Aurora Borealis

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
First Line: With the Alaska war front on the headlines, Dutch Harbor, Kiska and Attu, once the ends of the earth but now very much in the middle, at least from the war angle, it is naturally a fitting time to travel to that little known part of the world...
Synopsis: Vic recounts a time on a ship headed from Seattle to Nome when they were trapped in ice.
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Pages: 3
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Wow Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Splash pages from Wow Comics #13.
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Would You Like to Have a Free Sweater Crest of Your Favorite Comic-Book Character???

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Wing [Trixie Rogers]; Nelvana; Wild Bill Wildman; Wayne Dixon; Tang; Buddy Breckinridge; Rex Baxter; Active Jim; Johnny Canuck; Private Stuff
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Pages: 2
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Assignment for March 1st 1943

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Capt. Red Thortan
Character(s): Gertie; Red Thortan; Micheal Starr; Tim Gates
First Line: Brought to the secret Jap air base as prisoners Capt. Thortan and Starr are confronted by its commanding officer
Synopsis: Red tricks the Japanese guards into thinking he's dead.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: The first page has a reprint of most of last issue's last page set up on an artist's drawing board.
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Commando Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Splash pages from the various features of Commando Comics #4.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Active Jim
Character(s): Active Jim; Joan Brian
First Line: Like all you Canadian boys and girls, Jim has solemnly pledged his services to eventual Allied victory...
Synopsis: Jim and Joan spot a man sabotaging the train tracks.
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Pages: 3
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): The Noodle
Character(s): Count Hackula; The Noodle [Jordan Chimes]; Henrietta; Doc Ument
First Line: After an unsuccessful attempt to kill Jordan Chimes...
Synopsis: Count Hackula's bite has made Henrietta want to dance all night.
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Pages: 4
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Dime Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Splash pages of various features from Dime Comics #10.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Club News & Views
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: The Active Club has sent 9000 comics to soldiers in England.
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Comic Character Crest

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: I made the delivery o.k. but look wot the flak did to my fuselage!
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Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Thunderfist
Character(s): Randy Steele [Thunderfist]; Beverley Holmes; The Voice of Doom [Holger]
First Line: Beverley Holmes, of all people. Are you going to the coast too.
Synopsis: The gravity is cut off in a section of Coast City by the Voice of Doom.
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Pages: 9
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Dizzy Don

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Dizzy Don; Bill "Canary" Bird; Shirley Watson
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Pages: 1
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Joke Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
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Commander Repeating Play Gun

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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