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Issue: Dime Comics #3
Publication Date: June 1942
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Issues: #3 of 34 Issues (35 Printings)
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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: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
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Content Items: 17 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Black and white interior (issues 1 - 28); Colour interior (issues 29 and on); Colour covers
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Newsprint cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Rex Baxter and the Island of Doom

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Rex Baxter
Character(s): Rex Baxter; Johnny Canuck; Wild Bill Wildman
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Pages: 1
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Temple of Abu Simbel

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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): World Wonders
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The Island of Doom

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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Rex Baxter
Character(s): Rex Baxter; Gail Abbot; Zoltan; Tula; Zuma
First Line: --With a deafening hum -- the glowing sphere drops like a shot -- leaving the bright sunlight to carry them into the blackness of the yawning threshold -- into the unknown!
Synopsis: Rex and Gail are taken below the surface of the earth to the underground city of Xalanta.
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Pages: 20
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Thunderfist

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Character(s): Thunderfist
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Stick Men

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Feature(s): Cartooning Corner
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[untitled]

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Genres: western
Feature(s): The Adventures of Wild Bill
Character(s): Wild Bill Wildman; Rex; George Custer; Sitting Bull
First Line: This story is dedicated to the heroes of the great wild west
Synopsis: Wild Bill learns Sitting Bull is planning to ambush General Custer.
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Pages: 7
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Contest Winners What's Wrong with This Ship?

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Boys! Build One of These Flying Models

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The Greatest Contest Ever in Comic Magazines

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Joke Comics

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[untitled]

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Genres: war
Feature(s): Johnny Canuck
Character(s): Johnny Canuck; Etta
First Line: After barely escaping the guillotine Johnny returned to the underground spy ring headquarters
Synopsis: Johnny breaks into the prison to rescue Etta.
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Dusty Drives a Bargain

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Genres: western
Character(s): Dusty Smith; Prairie Gal; Clem; Grover Cleveland Carson [Lefty]; Philadelphia
First Line: A half dozen ranchers and cowhands lolled aimlessly before the entrance to Tumbleweed's only general store - "Cash Bradley's Emporium".
Synopsis: Everyone has offered to buy Dusty's horse Prairie Gal and now he's giving everyone a chance to win her.
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Little Joe (Stalin) the Wrangler

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Joseph Stalin; Hitler; John Bull; Uncle Sam
Synopsis: Stalin lassoing Hitler.
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The One and Only Dart Daring Appears in Wow Comics

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Character(s): Dart Daring
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[untitled]

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Genres: war
Feature(s): Scotty MacDonald
Character(s): Scotty MacDonald
First Line: December 8, 1941
Synopsis: The Japanese have attacked Hong Kong and Scotty is ordered to go there.
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Pages: 17
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Joke Comics

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Disclose Notes: Same promo as earlier in the issue, but in color.
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Start 'Em Flying to Keep 'Em Flying!

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