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Issue: Wow Comics #23
Publication Date: February 1945
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Issues: #23 of 30 Issues
Title:
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: 20 (14 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indexed from a copy missing pages 23-26; filled in most (all?) of the gaps using http://canadasowncomics.com/
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Feature(s): The Penguin
Character(s): The Penguin; Len Kane
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Pages: 1
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Want Some Cash?

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First Line: We will buy these back issues from any boy or girl who has them
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On inside front cover.

Bell Features was buying back some of their back issues from readers at 50 cents a book.
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The Mystery of the Piano-Playing Corpse Part Two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Penguin
Character(s): The Penguin; Len Kane; Dr. Hubert Higgs; Ricco; Mike
First Line: A very unique device! A small rubber sac mounted on the back of the ring! A little pressure on the ring forces a tiny hypo needle through to the surface! I think this calls for an investigation!
Synopsis: The Penguin figures out the secret of the piano-playing corpse.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Adventures of King Boho
Character(s): King Boho
First Line: Yowsah Doc ahm too doggone fat!
Synopsis: The king asks the witch doctor for a way to slim down.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): King Boho
Character(s): King Boho
First Line: Ah will not stand foh rowdys in dis army......
Synopsis: The king tries to deal with some rowdy men.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Otto Matic
Character(s): Otto Matic
First Line: Earthquake!
Synopsis: The new tenant upstairs plays her radio too loud and won't let Otto get his 15 hours of sleep a night.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, western
Feature(s): Joe the Big Game Hunter
Character(s): Joe
First Line: Injun see head much grizzle bear tracks!!
Synopsis: Joe is hunting grizzly bears.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle
Feature(s): Jeff Waring
Character(s): Jeff Waring; Kay Allen
First Line: Kay, daughter of Prof. Allen, asks to accompany Jeff Waring into the interior to see nature in the raw and gets more than she bargained for
Synopsis: The Kalara tribe tries to steal from a neighboring peaceful tribe.
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Pages: 7
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
First Line: Just cut the heads from snapshots and pictures you have taken of family and friends, or cutouts from magazines - and paste them on to the humorous "bodies"
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Woody and the Wolf
Character(s): Woody Wilkins; Dan Inkly
First Line: What? He's where?
Synopsis: Woody creates a new cartoon character called the Wolf.
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Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): The Phantom Rider
Character(s): Tim; Jim; Duan Harri [Phantom Rider]; Ace; Kurt
First Line: A Canadian mail plane is flying over the great painted desert...
Synopsis: The Phantom Rider sees a plane crash and discovers a Nazi plot.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: This story has the Phantom Rider set in the 1940s rather than the 1800s as implied by the previous stories.
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Cookhouse Capers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Tugboat Toby
Character(s): Toby; Floosie Flupp
First Line: How do ya like cookin' on a boat, Miss Flupp?
Synopsis: Toby talks to his new ship's cook.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: war
Feature(s): Pacific Patrol
Character(s): Irene Manning
First Line: In the vast expanse of the Pacific warfare...
Synopsis: Irene escapes from the Japanese and is picked up by a PT boat.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Bill
Character(s): Bill; Harry
First Line: This is one time, my strong-willed young man, when your going to keep your new year resolutions!
Synopsis: Bill vows to give up smoking.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Barnacle Bull
Character(s): Barnacle Bull
First Line: Shipwrecked, and alone on a raft, we find "Barnacle"!!
Synopsis: Barnacle Bull ropes a shark.
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): The Black Falcon
Character(s): Mueller; Franz Frisch; Kurt Krohn; Hans Richter; The Black Falcon
First Line: Scene: Berlin, Luftwaffe HQs...
Synopsis: Three of Germany's top aces have 69 kills each, the first one to reach 70 will be considered Germany's hero.
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Pages: 6
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Clue of the Corpse's Glove

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Guy Powers Secret Agent
Character(s): Sharen Phalen Sturgess; Guy Powers; Warwick Sturgess
First Line: Sharen Phalen, ex-movie actress wife of prominent writer Warwick Sturgess, is revealing her fears of impending doom to Guy Powers.
Synopsis: A former actress tells Guy that she thinks her husband is going to kill her.
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Pages: 4
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Comic Crimes

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Snaps
First Line: Now, about that suicide case you were working on-
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: One four-panel comic and four one-panel cartoons.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Gee! That musta been a colossal land mine!
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Disclose Notes: On inside back cover.
Advertisement for Colossal Comics.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: Four alarm, men!!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.
Advertisement for Colossal Comics.

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