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Issue: Unusual Comics #1

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Publication Date: September 1946

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Detail

Issues: #1 of 6 Issues (7 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Cover A

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Publisher: Flag

Bell Features

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Bell Features and Publishing Company Limited

On Sale Date: 12/18/1945

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 CAD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 13 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): James McClenning

Notes: Index for issue based on information and some page scans from eBay sale in August 2008. Interior appears to be reprint of Red Seal Comics #16 possibly (page counts based on that issue and may be incorrect).

On sale date from publisher Cy Bell's notes at the Canadian Library and Archives in Ottawa, Ontario, as reported by Ivan Kocmarek on his ComicBookDaily.com blog (http://www.comicbookdaily.com/collecting-community/whites-tsunami-weca-splashes/1946-rotary-litho-company-canada/#comments) [retrieved 11 April 2016].

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Colour

Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior

Binding: Saddle-Stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Variants2

Unusual Comics #1 [Cover A]

2 Unusual Comics #1 [Cover B]

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (13 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: science fiction

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Pages: 1

Funny as a Barrel of Monkeys

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Penciller(s): René L. Kulbach (signed)

Inker(s): René L. Kulbach (signed)

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Synopsis: Ad for Joke Comics, Terrific Comics, Red Hot Comics, Dime Comics and Active Comics. States that they are on-sale "coast to coast and the United Kingdom".

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Pages: 1

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Feature(s): The Black Dwarf

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Pages: 6

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Feature(s): The Gay Desperado

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Pages: 6

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Feature(s): Prehistoric Pete

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Pages: 4

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Feature(s): Nemo in Adventure Land

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Pages: 5

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Feature(s): Lyin' Lou

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Pages: 1

Notes: Listed in auction but not in Red Seal Comics. May be filler?

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Feature(s): Veiled Avenger

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Pages: 6

The Symbol of Sin ? (see note)

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Feature(s): Barry Kuda

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Pages: 6

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Feature(s): Lucky Coyne

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Pages: 7

3 Big Values In One

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Synopsis: Ad for a wallet. Likely reprinted from original US comic. Ordering information appears to have been blanked out.

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Pages: 1

Presenting the Active Jim International Pen Club

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Adrian Dingle (signed)

Inker(s): Adrian Dingle (signed)

Letterer(s): Adrian Dingle ?

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Feature(s): Active Jim

Character(s): Active Jim

Synopsis: Ad for the Active Jim club.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover.

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Cartoon on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Bill Thomas

Penciller(s): Bill Thomas

Inker(s): Bill Thomas

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Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): So Help Me

Character(s): Egbert

First Line: Nope - don't need none o' yer caty-logues no more - got one o' them new-fangled bathrooms now

Synopsis: Three gag cartoons.

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Pages: 1

Notes: On back cover. Note that a So Help Me and an ad for the Active Jim club are both in Triumph Comics #32 [27]. Unsure if the ones here match those.