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Issue: Active Comics #18
Publication Date: July 1944
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Issues: #18 of 38 Issues
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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: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 15 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; black and white interior (issue #1-28); full colour (#29 and on)
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Adrian Dingle (signed) [as Dingle]
Inker(s): Adrian Dingle (signed) [as Dingle]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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Pages: 1
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Subject Matter
First Line: To heck with my chute! I've got my Colossal to give me a lift!
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Pages: 1
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Diamond Studded Shark!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Marc L. Borgatta
Penciller(s): Marc L. Borgatta
Inker(s): Marc L. Borgatta
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dr. Blue and Blackie
Character(s): Dr. Blue; Blackie; Scoops Gannon
First Line: Dr. Blue and Blackie are showing their private museum to Scoops Gannon, who is making a write-up on these two battlers of crime!
Synopsis: A reporter learns how a red-finned shark helped Dr. Blue and Blackie put a stop to a Nazi spy ring.
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Pages: 7
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Active Jim]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Active Club News and Views
Character(s): Active Jim
First Line: Just the other day I recieved a letter from Cyril Turner...
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Leo Bachle
Penciller(s): Leo Bachle
Inker(s): Leo Bachle
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Brain
Character(s): The Brain [Gordon Bell]; Joss Zaakel; Ross Zaakel; Miss Zaakel
First Line: My invention is a success... I've succeeded in diminishing animals to doll-like size... now I'm ready for human beings!
Synopsis: Dr. Joss Zaakel has invented a shrinking ray.
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Pages: 7
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Contest Winners of the Brain Contest

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Leo Bachle
Inker(s): Leo Bachle
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Brain [Gordon Bell]
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Cooper
Penciller(s): Al Cooper
Inker(s): Al Cooper
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Capt. Red Thortan
Character(s): Red Thortan; Kula; Dale Howarth; Korto
First Line: Overpowering a single Jap guard, Red gains entrance into the enemy commander's hut.
Synopsis: Red and Kula free the natives drugged and enslaved by the Japanese.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): René L. Kulbach
Penciller(s): René L. Kulbach
Inker(s): René L. Kulbach
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dixon
Character(s): Wayne Dixon; Jansen; Smoky
First Line: Glad to see you, constable - you're just in time.
Synopsis: Dixon tracks an unusual fox thief.
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Pages: 7
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American Bombers of the Tri-Wheeled Type

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Cooper
Penciller(s): Al Cooper
Inker(s): Al Cooper
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, non-fiction
First Line: The Douglas A-20c or Boston with the U.S.A.A.F. or R.C.A.F. has two 1,600 H.P. Wright double-row-cyclone motors-
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Disclose Notes: The Douglas A-20 C, the B-25 Mitchell, and the Martin B-26.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Leo Bachle
Penciller(s): Leo Bachle
Inker(s): Leo Bachle
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Chip Pipher
Character(s): Chip Pipher
First Line: I thought I told you to stay away from this Jap prison camp... why only this morning three of them escaped!
Synopsis: Chip encounters three escaped Japanese soldiers.
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Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Brunt
Penciller(s): Harry Brunt
Inker(s): Harry Brunt
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, humorous, war
Feature(s): Loop the Droop
Character(s): Loop
First Line: Loop has been transferred to the European theatre, where he's flying P-47 fighters!!!
Synopsis: Loop is escorting some bombers when German fighters attack.
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Leo Bachle
Penciller(s): Leo Bachle
Inker(s): Leo Bachle
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Thunderfist
Character(s): Thunderfist [Randy Steele]; General Blaus; Adolf Hitler (voice)
First Line: The speeding car swerves to avoid hitting a log that lies in its path and crashes off the road.
Synopsis: Thunderfist goes to Holland and takes the place of the masked general.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Adrian Dingle
Penciller(s): Adrian Dingle
Inker(s): Adrian Dingle
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Active Jim
Character(s): Active Jim; Joan Brian; "Pop" Andrews; Joe Wakanabi
First Line: It seems incredible, doesn't it, that the simple act of taking a radio to the repair man, should turn into one of the most exciting adventures encountered by Jim and Joan in weeks---
Synopsis: Jim takes a broken radio to be fixed and "Pop" gives it to his Canadian-born Japanese assistant to fix.
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Pages: 5
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Canada's Greatest Comic Magazines

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Pages: 1
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A Shadow "Short"

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Shorty the Shadow
Character(s): Shorty the Shadow; Brass Knuckles
First Line: Shorty! Listen! "Brass" Knuckles and his "dusters" will crack the national bank -- to-night.
Synopsis: Shorty foils a bank robbery with a copy of Colossal Comics.
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Colossal Comics with a comic strip.

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