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Issue: Active Comics #14
Publication Date: November 1943
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Issues: #14 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: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 18 (10 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
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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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Canada's Greatest Comic Magazines

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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dixon of the Mounted
Character(s): Wayne Dixon; Werner; Red-Trapper; Hans
First Line: In search of an unknown and presumably foreign broadcasting station...
Synopsis: Dixon and Red find their ways into the secret Nazi radio staion.
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Pages: 8
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Laff and Be Happy
First Line: Doctor, will I be able to play the piano when my hand heals?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Four one-panel cartoons, one two-panel comic, and one three-panel comic.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Laff and Be Happy
Character(s): Oswald; Jenkens; Clarence
First Line: Did ja know running is good fer the figure Oswald?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Nine one-panel cartoons.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Capt. Red Thortan
Character(s): Red Thortan; Miss Howath
First Line: If you'll remember correctly, because I truly don't, Capt. Thortan on a special mission...
Synopsis: Red and Miss Howath are captured by the Japanese.
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Pages: 5
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Active Jim]
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Active Jim's Message
Character(s): Active Jim
First Line: By the time you read this Christmas 1943 will be over.
Synopsis: About donating old broken toys that can be repaired to nurseries.
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Eggbert
Character(s): Eggbert; Drool
First Line: Well look who's coming down the street.... my old.... friend.... Drool!!
Synopsis: Eggbert talks to his friend Drool.
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Brain
Character(s): Gordon Bell [The Brain]; Betty Thompkins; Tomoto; Miss Bowen; McAuly
First Line: Promptly at eight-thirty a gloved hand rings the bell of Miss Betty Thompkins apartment.
Synopsis: The Brain trails a Japanese man to a funeral home.
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Pages: 9
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Cornville Junction
First Line: Howdy - I see you want a hired man!
Synopsis: A farmer interviews a prospective employee.
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Pages: 3
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Thunderfist
Character(s): Randy Steele [Thunderfist]; Beverley Holmes; Dave Holmes; Rusty Ryan; Slick Spence
First Line: I'm terribly worried about my young brother Dave...
Synopsis: Gangsters have threatened Beverley's brother.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: At the end of the story a devil is shown with the face of Hitler.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Club News & Views
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Pages: 2
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Chapter 2.. Cavern's Collapse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): King Fury
Character(s): King Fury; Bill Mason; Hans Mueller; Tanya
First Line: Even King, with all his great strength, cannot combat the choking effects of the gas...
Synopsis: Tanya has a change of heart.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, war
Feature(s): Hitler Has Troubles!
Character(s): Adolf Hitler; Hermann Goering
First Line: Cha! R.C.A.F. bomb... trouble! Groan.....
Synopsis: Damage the Canadian bomber raids have done to Germany.
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Pages: 3
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Goofy Tales
Character(s): Lou Cobb
First Line: A boiler maker by the name of Lou Cobb -
Synopsis: Lou's ability to sleep at work, but not at home.
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Active Jim
Character(s): Active Jim; Joan Brian; Mary; Lue; Max; Smitty Oberdorf
First Line: Rumors create panic!
Synopsis: A rumor that war savings certificates will be worthless after the war are causing students to sell them.
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Pages: 4
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Automatic Anti-Aircraft Gun

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 1
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Here's a Smashing Bargain!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for balsa wood planes.

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