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Issue: Dime Comics #22
Publication Date: August 1945
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Issues: #22 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: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 15 (11 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Relates to the story Monsters of the Deep.
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Thunderfist
First Line: Here's a free cut-out mask of the mighty "Thunderfist"
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Printed on the inside front and inside back covers.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Rex Baxter
Character(s): Rex Baxter; Gail Abbot; Zoltan; Colonel Henderson
First Line: Not a very convincing report! You'd better try test no. 420!
Synopsis: Rex, Gail and Zoltan land on Layte Island.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Chik 'n' Fuzz
Character(s): Chik; Fuzz
First Line: It shouldn't take us long t'cross the channel - we'll be back in England in a coupla hours
Synopsis: Heading back to England, Chik and Fuzz are picked up by a German submarine.
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Pages: 6
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For Your Den

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Oolay the Eskimo
Character(s): Oolay
Synopsis: Oolay reads about decorating with a moosehead.
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Nitro
Character(s): Nitro [Terry Allen]; Poet; "Curly" Edwards
First Line: It's just a blackout folks!!
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Nitro's secret identity here is Terry Allen rather than the usual Terry King.

A criminal makes a reference to Superman. Nitro mentions going to a club where Drummy Young is playing.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Professor Punk
Character(s): Professor Punk
First Line: Whaddayuh think turned back the great German drive in Belgium???? Heh! Heh!
Synopsis: The Professor explains how his tank-trap works.
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Johnny Canuck
Character(s): Johnny Canuck
First Line: Wipe sneer from face.... Answer - where is base from which your plane took off?
Synopsis: The Japanese continue to torture Johnny but he refuses to break. In the prison, Johnny befriends an old man who helps him regain his strength.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The story is "inspired" by the Blackhawk story in Military Comics #28 (Quality) and a number of panels are flipped images from the Blackhawk story.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, science fiction
First Line: Let's go back and face the draft, he says there's a war on here too!
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Mongoose
Character(s): The Mongoose; Tom; Esther Rand
First Line: Nice friendly district this - silent as a tomb
Synopsis: The Mongoose is walking along when he hears a scream.
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Pages: 4
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Firebug's Fiasco

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Dew West; Joe; Myra West; Hammond
First Line: We've all seen fires, warmed are hands against them and enjoyed food from them...
Synopsis: Detective West is trying to figure out who has been setting fires all over town.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Writer used 'are' instead of 'our' in the first sentence.
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Music Masks Murder!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Drummy Young
Character(s): Drummy Young; Ziggy Eldridge; "Dice" Edwards; Jack Conn; "Pix" Penny; Skippy; Jard
First Line: The main ballroom of the classy, Clock Club echoes with the smooth rhythms of "Perdido" as Drummy Young and his band entertains..
Synopsis: A man kills a guy during a really hot jazz number to hide the sound of the gunshot.
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Pages: 6
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Monsters of the Deep

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Pete; Tim; Dick; Tiger; Olaf
First Line: We're just about there Pete, I can see the tip of the destroyer's mast, above the water!
Synopsis: A salvage company has been hired to raise the pay-chest from a sunken destroyer.
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Pages: 6
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Murder Star

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Jeff Adams; Prince; Sheriff Black; Lefty Starr; Red Wilson
First Line: Old Jeff Adams was no artist... but his last drawing was too good to be held in a murderer's frame... as the sheriff of Brimstone found that "one picture is worth ten thousand words"
Synopsis: Jeff Adams is shot and Lefty Starr is the main suspect.
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Pages: 6
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Subject Matter
First Line: Ha ha! Ya never know what's comin' next with this Colossal!
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Colossal Comics.

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