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Issue: Unusual Comics #1
Publication Date: September 1946
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Issues: #1 of 6 Issues (7 Printings)
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Variant: Cover A
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Publisher: FlagBell Features
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Bell Features and Publishing Company Limited
On Sale Date: 12/18/1945
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): James McClenning
Disclose Notes: Index for issue based on information and some page scans from eBay sale in August 2008. Interior appears to be reprint of Red Seal Comics #16 possibly (page counts based on that issue and may be incorrect).

On sale date from publisher Cy Bell's notes at the Canadian Library and Archives in Ottawa, Ontario, as reported by Ivan Kocmarek on his ComicBookDaily.com blog (http://www.comicbookdaily.com/collecting-community/whites-tsunami-weca-splashes/1946-rotary-litho-company-canada/#comments) [retrieved 11 April 2016].
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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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Genres: science fiction
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Funny as a Barrel of Monkeys

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Synopsis: Ad for Joke Comics, Terrific Comics, Red Hot Comics, Dime Comics and Active Comics. States that they are on-sale "coast to coast and the United Kingdom".
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Feature(s): The Black Dwarf
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Pages: 6
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Feature(s): The Gay Desperado
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Feature(s): Prehistoric Pete
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Feature(s): Nemo in Adventure Land
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Feature(s): Lyin' Lou
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Feature(s): Veiled Avenger
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The Symbol of Sin ? (see note)

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Feature(s): Barry Kuda
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Feature(s): Lucky Coyne
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3 Big Values In One

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Synopsis: Ad for a wallet. Likely reprinted from original US comic. Ordering information appears to have been blanked out.
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Presenting the Active Jim International Pen Club

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Feature(s): Active Jim
Character(s): Active Jim
Synopsis: Ad for the Active Jim club.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Matches the inside back cover of Triumph Comics #32 [27].
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): So Help Me
Character(s): Egbert
First Line: Nope - don't need none o' yer caty-logues no more - got one o' them new-fangled bathrooms now
Synopsis: Three gag cartoons.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On back cover.

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