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Issue: Wow Comics #5
Publication Date: February 1942
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Issues: #5 of 30 Issues
Title:
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: $0.15 CAD
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Content Items: 18 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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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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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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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Strange Facts Scrapbook
First Line: The poison scorpion when surrounded by fire... will commit suicide!
Synopsis: Facts about scorpions, fishermen of Ceylon and fish candles.
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Pages: 1
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Treacherous Trails

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, western
Feature(s): Dart Daring
Character(s): Dart Daring; Loraine Knight; Robert Huntley; Black Bill
First Line: Desperately, Dart clings to the slimy boulder.
Synopsis: Dart is saved from the falls.
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Pages: 25
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Thomas Alva Edison

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Subject Matter
Genres: biography, non-fiction
Feature(s): Great Men
Character(s): Thomas Alva Edison
First Line: The Wizard of Menlo Park
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Pages: 1
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First Line: 100 fortune telling wheels free!
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Disclose Notes: Contest from Bell Features.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Hermann Goering
First Line: I call for help and look what he sends me!
Synopsis: A flustered Goering receives a copy of Mein Kampf from Hitler instead of military support.
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Devil Wolf

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Don; Jerry; Slim Bain; Pop Jenkins
First Line: Finally the rain stopped, low rumbling of distant thunder re-echoed over Pelee Lake as Don turned his canoe up on the shore, and slid it into the water
Synopsis: Brothers Don and Jerry are camping near Alden Mills and feel there's nothing exciting, until the sherrif tells them about the devil wolf of Skull Island.
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Pages: 4
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Contest Winners

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Disclose Notes: Announces winners of the previous Bell Features contest.

Top prize went to Jack Tremblay who was noted for "special mention as his drawing and coloring was exceptionally good." He ended up doing comics for Bell Features.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Wow! Three more shovels and Pop says I can read my comics!
Synopsis: A little boy shovels snow for the privilege of reading his comic books.
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Howard (Hangman) Cantonwine, the World's Rough-House Champion

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Genres: non-fiction, sports
Character(s): Howard Cantonwine
First Line: I'll down this baby
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Reprint Notes: from Corcoran's Wrestling Guide ?
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Pages: 1
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Wrestling moves

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): J. J. Corcoran ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
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Reprint Notes: from Corcoran's Wrestling Guide ?
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Illustrated guide to wrestling, begins at "position no.32."
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Goering's Luftwaffe (German Air Force)

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Genres: aviation, non-fiction
Feature(s): Wings of All Nations
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Pastime Page

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Character(s): Dart Daring; Whiz Wallace
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Disclose Notes: Includes cut-out "Victory Bucks" and stamps featuring Dart Daring & Whiz Wallace.
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Whiz Wallace and the Bat-Beasts of Aralee

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction
Feature(s): Whiz Wallace
Character(s): Elaine Kenyon; Whiz Wallace
First Line: Their rocketship wrecked in the desolate mountains of Aralee, Whiz Wallace and Elaine Kenyon find themselves marooned...
Synopsis: Elaine is captured by the bat-beasts of Aralee.
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Pages: 25
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The Great Nose Dive

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): John Bull; Benito Mussolini; Adolf Hitler
First Line: Who says it's your ocean?
Synopsis: As Mussolini dives toward a tub of water, John Bull yanks the tub away.
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Disclose Notes: On inside back cover.
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Character(s): Dart Daring; Rex Baxter; Dixon of the Mounted
First Line: Greatest comic characters of them all!!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for Wow Comics and Dime Comics.

Back cover.
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Rex Baxter and the Island of Doom

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): Edmond Good (signed)
Inker(s): Edmond Good (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Rex Baxter
Character(s): Rex Baxter; Johnny Canuck; Scotty MacDonald
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From Content Item: FlagDime Comics #2 published March 1942
was Rex Baxter and the Island of Doom [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Great Wall of China, Westminster Abbey and Pyramids of Gizeh

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): H.R. Kingsley (signed)
Penciller(s): H.R. Kingsley (signed)
Inker(s): H.R. Kingsley (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): World Wonders
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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