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Issue: Torchy #5
Publication Date: January 1950
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Issues: #5 of 7 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagBell Features
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Bell Features and Publishing Company Limited
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harry Stein
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Torchy Todd
First Line: Why--- How did you ever recognize me?
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From Content Item: FlagTorchy #5 published July 1950
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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This Bell Feature Comic Group Make Entertaining Reading:

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Synopsis: Ad for four comics from Bell Features: Indian Fighter, Captain Science, Spy Cases, and New Heroic Comics. Includes a picture of a kid in a bathtub reading comics.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Also includes generic indicia giving address for Bell Features as 165 York Street, Toronto.
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The Terrible Tangle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Torchy Todd; Tess Parker; Ed Tracy
First Line: My, you're in a terrible tangle!
Synopsis: Ed wins money on the horses and takes Torchy and Tess out to dinner where Torchy's unravelling sweater dress causes a panic.
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From Content Item: FlagTorchy #5 published July 1950
was The Terrible Tangle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Title from reprint in Bill Ward's Torchy, the Blonde Bombshell (Innovation, 1992 Series) #1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Tess Parker; Ed Tracy
First Line: You'll love the circus, Tess!
Synopsis: Ed takes on a ventriloquist with a horse for client and accidentally becomes a circus performer.
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From Content Item: FlagTorchy #5 published July 1950
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Torchy; Ed Tracy; Tess
First Line: Torchy, turn around before you get arrested!
Synopsis: Ed starts a parking lot and borrows a car to teach Torchy how to drive. Unfortunately an identical car is used at almost the same time to rob a bank.
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From Content Item: FlagTorchy #5 published July 1950
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Blonde Up Front

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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From Content Item: FlagTorchy #5 published July 1950
was The Blonde Up Front [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Torchy Todd [as Cleopatra]; Tess Parker; Ed Tracy
First Line: Oh, gosh! I think I'm going to sneeze!
Synopsis: Ed gets a job working at the wax museum and breaks a wax dummy of Cleopatra. Torchy dresses up as Cleopatra while Ed gets the dummy fixed, but ends up being lent out to a businessman's luncheon.
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From Content Item: FlagTorchy #5 published July 1950
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Bendix Coaster Brake Wins Again!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Bendix
Synopsis: Ad for Bendix bike coaster brakes. Eclipse Machine Division of Bendix Aviation Corporation, Elmira, New York.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Likely reprinted directly from plates used for American version of comic.
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Dolls' Plastic Rain Capes

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Ad for doll's clothes from Easy Mail Order Co. at 165 York Street, Toronto.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Miracle Skin Creme

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Miracle Drug Company
Synopsis: Ad for Miracle Skin Creme from Miracle Drug Company, 165 York Street, Toronto.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On back cover of comics. Same ad is on the back of Hi-Comics #7 from Bell Features, but address there is given as 106 Adelaide St. W., Toronto.

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