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Issue: Dime Comics #5
Publication Date: October 1942
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Issues: #5 of 34 Issues (35 Printings)
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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: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 19 (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; Scotty MacDonald; Wild Bill Wildman
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Pages: 1
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Clauia Aquaduct

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Genres: non-fiction
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Disclose Notes: Information on the Claudia Aquaduck (misspelled Clauia in its title), the Torghatten tunnel in Norway, and Gibraltar.
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[untitled]

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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Rex Baxter
Character(s): Lerzal; Ratol; Zoltan; Gail Abbot; Riona; Rex Baxter; Guzaq; Yoro
First Line: Having graciously excused himself from the Queen's banquet for Rex and Gail
Synopsis: Lerzal orders another lackey to kill Zoltan.
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Pages: 15
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[untitled]

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Writer(s): Mik
Penciller(s): Mik
Inker(s): Mik
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Mr. Dicks; Mrs. Dicks; S. Cohen
First Line: Don't be frightened, dear, it's just my imagination!!
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Practice Page - - Children

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Feature(s): Cartooning Corner
Character(s): Lloyd George; Stanley Baldwin; Ramsay MacDonald; George Chesterton
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Joke Comics

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Diving Bell Spiders

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Genres: nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Would You Believe?
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Disclose Notes: Information on diving bell spiders, bee stings and angler fish.
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[untitled]

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Genres: western
Feature(s): Wild Bill
Character(s): Wild Bill Wildman; Dirk Latrol; Blackie; Pete; Rex
First Line: So Wild Bill is acting as a guard on the gold shipment
Synopsis: Dirk makes it look like Wild Bill robbed the Wells Fargo office.
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Pages: 10
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The Standard Book of Formulas

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Like Horses?

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Character(s): Buddy Breckenridge; Tang
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Triumph Comics.
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Burst the Mail Bag Contest

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Ye Editor Digging Himself Out of the Entries in the Popularity Contest with the Winnahs!

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[untitled]

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Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Johnny Canuck
Character(s): Johnny Canuck; Adolf Hitler; Etta
First Line: Johnny Canuck once again escapes from his cell...
Synopsis: Hitler recaptures Johnny then tries to make Etta switch sides and infiltrate the USA in order to spare Johnny's life, but Johnny breaks free, saves Etta and this time succeeds in restoring her to the underground spy ring.
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Death Casts a Vote

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Trixie Rogers; O'Grady; The Weasel; Boss Baker; Miss King
First Line: Trixie Rogers stared at the corpse in horror.
Synopsis: Trixie investigates the murder of the mayor elect and the kidnapping of the current mayor's daughter.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Sergeant O'Grady comments that he thinks Trixie is really the Wing, but she makes no appearance as the Wing in this story.
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Crash Carson

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Character(s): Crash Carson
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[untitled]

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Genres: war
Feature(s): Kenneth Scotty MacDonald
Character(s): Kenneth Scotty MacDonald; Fatstuff; Captain Kelly; Jack; Tommy O'Hara
First Line: Having captured the commander of a demolished Japanese torpedo boat
Synopsis: Scotty saves an American pilot.
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Pages: 12
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Just when you start to feel better -
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Stop That Gas Thief!

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Supermarine Spitfire

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