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Issue: Wow Comics #3
Publication Date: December 1941
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Issues: #3 of 30 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagBell Features
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Commercial Signs of Canada
On Sale Date: 1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 CAD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Indicia states "Published Monthly by Commercial Signs of Canada, 165 York St. Toronto". Wow in the indicia is actually enclosed in quotation marks. Subscription price given as $2.00 per year.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour covers; colour interior (#1-8); black and white interior (#9 and on)
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Thrilling Adventures of Dart Daring Master Swordsman

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, historical
Feature(s): Dart Daring
Character(s): Dart Daring; Loraine Knight
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Pages: 1
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Monkey Business

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Synopsis: An African native fans a lion.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. In full colour.
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The Shore of Adventures

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, historical
Feature(s): Dart Daring
Character(s): Dart Daring; Loraine Knight
First Line: The lookout aboard a ship that's passing the marooned couple in the night, gives an alarm as he sights a small flare on the water far astern.
Synopsis: Dart and Loraine are rescued from their raft in the middle of the sea by a ship bound for Vancouver Island. Much later a sailor recognizes Dart as a pirate, a fight ensues and he is put in chains. He escapes in a small lifeboat and finds that Loraine has smuggled herself away too. They are shipwrecked and attacked by Kawitshin Indians.
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Pages: 25
Disclose Notes: Continued from previous issue. Continued in next issue.
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Carbon Copies

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Eight cats "singing" along a fence.
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Pages: 1
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Aeroplane Controls

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Wings of All Nations
First Line: Control column or stick
Synopsis: Facts about how a plane flies.
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Pages: 1
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The Cowardly Hero

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Rupert Dumart (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Terry Logan (Canadian flying ace with the R.A.F.); Dick Heath; Squadron Commander Edwin Fawcett
First Line: The night was dark and the air heavy with fog.
Synopsis: Young pilot Heath panics on a flying mission.
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Pages: 4.67
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: nature
Feature(s): Animal Animosity
First Line: Lions at Battle
Synopsis: Two panels about animals fighting each other to cut out and put in a book. These are labeled page 3 and 4.
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Pages: 0.33
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Sailing Ships

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Writer(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: The sails of a full-rigged ship
Synopsis: Drawing pointing out the names of the sails on a sailing ship.
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Pages: 1
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Loraine Knight Cut-Outs

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dart Daring
Character(s): Loraine Knight
Synopsis: Paper doll of Loraine Knight from the Dart Daring Strip.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Unsigned but obviously Edmund Legault by style. Same letterer as stories by Legault.
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Gus Sonnenberg

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Gus Sonnenberg
First Line: Otherwise known as Gloomy Gus - Gus the Goat - Dynamite Gus - and Sonny Boy!
Synopsis: Realistic drawing of wrestler Gus Sonnenberg surrounded by cartoony drawings of him.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Part of a series of wrestler drawings.
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Wrestling Holds (continued)

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): J. J. Corcoran ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: Reverse Half Nelson and body hold
Synopsis: Number 11 to number 17 pictures of wrestling holds.
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Reprint Notes: from Corcoran's Wrestling Guide ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Continued from previous issue. Art work is unsigned but appears to be by Skuce from style.
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The Science of Wrestling - (continued)

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): J. J. Corcoran ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: There are any number of holds, some of which have definite names, others, being a combination of one or more holds remain unclassified.
Synopsis: Facts about wrestling, including more information about the holds on the previous page.
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Reprint Notes: from Corcoran's Wrestling Guide ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Continued from the previous issue.
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The 25 Contest Winners

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: List of 25 winners of a contest "Why I Like Wow Comics". #1 winner was Isabel Bigelow of Toronto.
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Pages: 1
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The Diplomat

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Jimmy John
First Line: Well, well - little Jimmy John. Now let me see - what do I need for dinner?
Synopsis: A boy offers to take a woman's grocery order, but says that someone else will have to deliver it on account of her snarling dog.
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The Valley of Fear

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Whiz Wallace
Character(s): Whiz Wallace; Elaine Kenyon; Movak
First Line: Having been rescued by a strange warrior named Movak, the magician, Whiz Wallace and Elaine Kenyon are taken thru a vast, grotesque cavern in Movak's rocketship.
Synopsis: Whiz Wallace and Elaine Kenyon are rescued by the magician Movak who takes them to the Grottoes of the Green Death where they battle many weird creatures and escape death-traps.
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Pages: 25
Disclose Notes: Next issue announced to have Moon of Aralee.
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Saturday Night!

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: One boy is given a bath in a steel tub by his mother while another looks on.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Be a "Wow" Sausage Grinder

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Adolf Hitler (as a sausage dog); John Public
First Line: Ach! Dat I - Adolf - should end as a hot dog!
Synopsis: John Public turns a grinder to turn Adolf Hitler (as a sausage dog) into sausage. The grinder is labeled "War Savings Certificate" and "War Savings Stamps".
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On back cover.

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