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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published [June 1942?]
Cover Price 0.10 CAD
Pages 68
Editing Cy Bell?
Notes No date given in comic. Date guessed at because 1942 is mentioned in Active Jim's message and previous issue may have come out in May. Cover has "Colonial Distributors: Bell Features", indicia has "Bell Features and Publishing Company Limited".

Cover Details

Characters Thunderfist; Captain Red Thortan; Dixon of the Mounted; The Brain; Active Jim
Genre Adventure
Pencils Adrian Dingle [as Dingle]
Inks Adrian Dingle [as Dingle]
Letters Adrian Dingle [as Dingle]?
Notes No date given in comic. Date guessed at because 1942 is mentioned in Active Jim's message and previous issue may have come out in May. Cover has "Colonial Distributors: Bell Features", indicia has "Bell Features and Publishing Company Limited".

1 page filler "Battle Tactics"

Synopsis Cannon attack on bomber.
Genre Fact
Script Al Cooper (signed)
Pencils Al Cooper (signed)
Inks Al Cooper (signed)
Letters Al Cooper ? (signed)

10 page Dixon of the Mounted story "The Story Thus Far... Receiving Orders to investigate the death of Constable Wicks..."

Characters Dixon of the Mounted
Genre Adventure
Script T.A. Steele (signed)
Pencils T.A. Steele (signed)
Inks T.A. Steele (signed)
Letters T.A. Steele (signed)?

1 page Active Jim Club promo (ad from the publisher) "Club News & Views"

Synopsis News from the Active Jim Club. Handlettered and typeset.
Letters Typeset; ?

4 page The Noodle story "Flash -- A creature known as the Mummy has abducted a baby girl..."

Characters The Mummy; The Noodle
Genre Humor; Adventure
Script Ross Saakel (signed)
Pencils Ross Saakel (signed)
Inks Ross Saakel (signed)
Letters Ross Saakel (signed)?
Notes Parody of The Mummy in The Brain in a previous issue of Active Comics.

1 page Buddy Breckenridge promo (ad from the publisher) "Like Horses"

Synopsis Ad for Trimph Comics.

1 page Active Jim promo (ad from the publisher) "Active Jim's Monthly Message"

Synopsis Illo and handlettered. With coupon to join club for 15 cents.

11 page The Brain story "Canada at War!"

Characters The Brain; Toro; Dr. Black
Genre Adventure
Script Leo Bache
Pencils Leo Bache
Inks Leo Bache
Letters Leo Bache?
Notes The name of the town is Saakelville, after Ross Saakel who draws and writes The Noodle in this comic.

3 page Active Jim story "Flash - Toronto citizens are warned to be on the look out for a leopard..."

Characters Active Jim
Genre Adventure
Script Ross Saakel [as Ross K. Saakel]
Pencils Ross Saakel [as Ross K. Saakel]
Inks Ross Saakel [as Ross K. Saakel]
Letters Ross Saakel [as Ross K. Saakel]?

2 page activity "What Would You Do?"

Synopsis Contest with entry form. "Young Norm West, who is making a canoe trip..."
Pencils Mel Crawford [as Crawford]
Inks Mel Crawford [as Crawford]

1 page advertisement "Ad for a book - The Standard Book of Formulas"

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "2 half page ads for Wow and Dime Comics"

Synopsis Ilustration of plane and Wild Bill (a cowboy).
Pencils Mel Crawford [as Crawford]
Inks Mel Crawford [as Crawford]

2 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Winners of Popularity Contest"

Pencils Mel Crawford [as Crawford]
Inks Mel Crawford [as Crawford]

12 page Capt. Red Thortan story "Synopsis: Trapped by a group of Jap Snipers, Red, determined to try a perilous attack..."

Characters Captain Red. Thortan
Genre Adventure
Script Al Cooper (signed)
Pencils Al Cooper (signed)
Inks Al Cooper (signed)
Letters Al Cooper (signed)?

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Ad for Joke Comics #3"

Synopsis Reprints cover of Joke Comics #3. Notes that it contains War Gags by Mickey Owens and cartoons by Leo Skuce.

14 page Thunderfist story "This is News! The airport buildings were torpedoed."

Characters Thunderfist; Goliath
Genre Adventure
Script Murray Karn?
Pencils Murray Karn [signed as Illustrated by M. Karn]
Inks Murray Karn [signed as Illustrated by M. Karn]
Letters Murray Karn?
Notes Story includes a giant ape named Goliath. At end, there is a panel that notes that Jeff Waring, King of the Amazon, by the same illustrator appears in Wow Comics.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Baw! Somebody's got by comic book"

Pencils Mel Crawford? (signed "C")
Inks Mel Crawford? (signed "C")

1 page advertisement "Superb 50" Flying Model"

Notes Ad for Airplane model from Transcanada Mail Order Co.