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Issue: Joke Comics #23
Publication Date: June 1945
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Issues: #23 of 28 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagBell Features
Brand: 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 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 16 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
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): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Wing
Character(s): The Wing [Trixie Rogers]
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Pages: 1
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Nothing But the Truth!
First Line: Equally artistic with baton and brush!
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Private Stuff
Character(s): Foogy; Private Stuff; Private Ward; Elmer; Mr. Stuff
First Line: Me try out for New York Giants!
Synopsis: Stuff has to stop Foogy, a giant who comes out of his forest every ten years to forage farmers crops.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story takes place on April first.
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An Armful of Trouble!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Major Domo and His Assistant Jo-Jo
Character(s): Major Domo; Jo-Jo; Dr. Juan; Obit C. Ghoul
First Line: Look at this, Major Domo!
Synopsis: Dr. Juan offers to give Major Domo artificial arms for free.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Billy Beaver and His Pal Chubby Jones
Character(s): Billy Beaver; Chubby Jones
First Line: Hi ya!
Synopsis: Chubby runs away from home and is saved by a Beaver named Billy.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Steve Storms
Character(s): Dr. Blake; Dr. Findlay; Dr. Lambert; Steve Storms; Chief Lumgato
First Line: To protect her black subjects, the British government appoints wise and brave men to police her African outposts!
Synopsis: Three doctors have come to Kilbani to get a native cure for arthritis.
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Pages: 5
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Nothing But the Truth!
First Line: Spain's official hangman still drawin' pay altho' hangin' was abolished years ago.
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Pages: 2
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Welcome Home Gang!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as The Editor]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
First Line: Rene Kulbach R.C.A.F. Special Police - Rene is the poster and mural artist of the Air Force.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Welcoming back various Bell Features employees from service and letting readers know what they did.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Wing
Character(s): Sharpy Barns; Ken Foyle; Inky; Diana; Trixie Rogers [The Wing]; Flanagan
First Line: The palatial office of "Sharpy" Barns, big time gang leader......
Synopsis: Ken Foyle wants out of the mob.
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Pages: 6
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To Mars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Spike and Mike
Character(s): Spike; Mike Rafone; Professor I. N. Stein;
Synopsis: Professor Stein takes off in his rocket ship not knowing that Spike and Mike have stowed away.
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Pages: 5
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: And do you promise to love, honour and obey your mother-in-law too?
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Jinx
Character(s): Jinx; Goo-Goo; Oski-Wow-Wow
First Line: That was been the last time I am ever taking you foxes hunting
Synopsis: Jinx is supposed to take Goo-Goo to a party.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Blade
Character(s): The Blade; Koto; Kushazi; Mary Stevens; Jim Stevens
First Line: In the year 1810, the Blade, foe of all pirates was overcome with some strange gas, and locked in a hidden room, in a fortress on Skull Island
Synopsis: A Japanese sub lands at Skull Island.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The year has been changed from 1945 to 1943, and Tim and Mary Stone are now Jim and Mary Stevens.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Doodlebugs
Character(s): Slunki; Buzz; King Bizzby; U. Stinko; Hawkins; Captain Wumptoe; Clem Clam
First Line: We're lucky it's a rip-saw and not a cross-cut!
Synopsis: A Catnip spy learns of the Doodlebugs new invention, the blatysphere.
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Pages: 6
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Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Joe
First Line: Kerchoo!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A Smith Bros. cough drop ad done up as a two-panel comic.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Izzy Brite
Character(s): Izzy Brite; Mrs. Brite
First Line: Guess what, ma? I've gotta get all cleaned up right away!
Synopsis: Izzy has to get a finger washed.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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