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Issue: Wow Comics #17
Publication Date: February 1944
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Issues: #17 of 30 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagBell Features
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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: 17 (9 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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The Penguin Strikes

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Genres: superhero, war
Feature(s): The Penguin
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Pages: 1
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Canada's Greatest Comic Magazines

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Penguin
Character(s): The Penguin; The Luger; Inspector Mallory; Bert
First Line: This is not a healthy position to be in at all...
Synopsis: The Penguin escapes from the Luger's death trap.
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Pages: 8
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
First Line: They had to let me take it home on my last furlough, I bought it with war saving stamps and certificates.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Spooky Tales
Character(s): Mortimer McFright; Veronica Puddle
First Line: Actually vampires are not fictitious and are usually found at graveyards after the stroke of midnight...
Synopsis: Mortimer goes to the graveyard to prove vampires don't exist.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: One of the gravestones is for artist R. K. Saakel.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Tugboat Toby
Character(s): Toby; Professor
First Line: Well Cap.. we've really got a real job on our hands, hunting Nazi subs, now that the government has commissioned the tug for a patrol boat!
Synopsis: The captain and his mate talk about their upcoming u-boat hunting duty.
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The Adventure of the Spymaster

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Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Whiz Wallace
Character(s): The Spymaster; Whiz Wallace; Jo Barry
First Line: Whiz Wallace, soldier and adventurer, is in Bombay, India, on the trail of stolen _letters of credit_ for $10,000,000..... all clues point to _a mysterious person_ known as "the Spymaster"
Synopsis: Whiz and Jo escape from the death trap the Spymaster put them in last issue.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Guy Powers Secret Agent
Character(s): Guy Powers; J. W. Tyler; Ottman
First Line: A series of mysterious disasters befall the mighty bombers ferried across the ocean from our shores.
Synopsis: Guy examines a ball-bearing plant for sabotage.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Joe
First Line: How do you like it Joe? My wife made it out of her old silk stockings!
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Genres: western
Feature(s): The Phantom Rider of the Crimson Sage
Character(s): Phantom Rider [Duan Harris]; Ace; Jim Harris
First Line: Those fellows behave strangely I have a hunch they wouldn't mind doing some dirty work -
Synopsis: Duan overhears some men plotting some cattle rustling.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Laff and Be Happy
Character(s): Albert; Mr.Perkins; Mrs. Perkins; Will; Sally; Horatio; Stinkle-Booble; Sam
First Line: Hey!! Why in the deuce didn't you grab that burglar when he ran by?
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Disclose Notes: Fourteen one-panel cartoons and two two-panel cartoons.
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Savage Swamp

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, historical
Feature(s): Dart Daring
Character(s): Loraine Knight; Dart Daring; Franklin
First Line: Once again comes Dart Daring in brand new series to thrill you with his dauntless exploits and fearless sword-fights with bold pirates and savages around the globe.
Synopsis: Dart and his companions land in South America.
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Neptune's Children!

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Character(s): Mary Argyle; Mrs. Argyle; Mr. Argyle; Angus McIntosh; Jim Elders; Freddie; Rosie; Tom Sawyer; Doc Fisher; Reverend Barnes
First Line: Mary Argyle was daughter of the lighthouse keeper at Flinn Island, a dreary and lonely spot down the Nova Scotia coast.
Synopsis: Two lonely people join a lonely hearts correspondence club.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: They say the captain is "short-sighted"
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Jeff Waring Meets the Giant of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jeff Waring
Character(s): Jeff Waring; Professor Allen; Tana; Kay Allen
First Line: Watch out kids we're in for a storm!
Synopsis: Jeff encounters a giant.
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Pages: 7
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Automatic Anti-Aircraft Gun

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Commander Repeating Play Gun

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