Active Comics
#14
([circa November 1943])
Bell Features,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 CAD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Bell Features and Publishing Company Limited
- Brand
-
Colonial Distributors Bell Features
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
Dixon of the Mounted / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Adrian Dingle (signed as Dingle)
- Inks
- Adrian Dingle (signed as Dingle)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Wayne Dixon
- Keywords
- lynx; RCMP; Royal Canadian Mounted Police
[no title indexed]
Dixon of the Mounted / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In search of an unknown and presumably foreign broadcasting station...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Wayne Dixon; Werner; Red-Trapper; Hans
- Synopsis
- Dixon and Red find their ways into the secret Nazi radio staion.
[no title indexed]
Laff and Be Happy / cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- M. Peterson (signed as Peterson)
- Pencils
- M. Peterson (signed as Peterson)
- Inks
- M. Peterson (signed as Peterson)
- Letters
- M. Peterson (signed as Peterson)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Doctor, will I be able to play the piano when my hand heals?
- Genre
- humour
Indexer Notes
Four one-panel cartoons, one two-panel comic, and one three-panel comic.
[no title indexed]
Laff and Be Happy / cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- M. Peterson (signed as Peterson)
- Pencils
- M. Peterson (signed as Peterson)
- Inks
- M. Peterson (signed as Peterson)
- Letters
- M. Peterson (signed as Peterson)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Did ja know running is good fer the figure Oswald?
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Oswald; Jenkens; Clarence
Indexer Notes
Nine one-panel cartoons.
[no title indexed]
Capt. Red Thortan / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- If you'll remember correctly, because I truly don't, Capt. Thortan on a special mission...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Red Thortan; Miss Howath
- Synopsis
- Red and Miss Howath are captured by the Japanese.
[no title indexed]
Active Jim's Message / text article / 1 page
- Script
- ? [as Active Jim]
- Pencils
- Adrian Dingle (signed as A.D.)
- Inks
- Adrian Dingle (signed as A.D.)
- Letters
- Adrian Dingle (signed as A.D.)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- By the time you read this Christmas 1943 will be over.
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Active Jim
- Synopsis
- About donating old broken toys that can be repaired to nurseries.
[no title indexed]
Eggbert / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well look who's coming down the street.... my old.... friend.... Drool!!
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Eggbert; Drool
- Synopsis
- Eggbert talks to his friend Drool.
[no title indexed]
The Brain / comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Promptly at eight-thirty a gloved hand rings the bell of Miss Betty Thompkins apartment.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Gordon Bell [The Brain]; Betty Thompkins; Tomoto; Miss Bowen; McAuly
- Synopsis
- The Brain trails a Japanese man to a funeral home.
[no title indexed]
Cornville Junction / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Frank Keith (signed)
- Pencils
- Frank Keith (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Keith (signed)
- Letters
- Frank Keith (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Howdy - I see you want a hired man!
- Genre
- humour
- Synopsis
- A farmer interviews a prospective employee.
[no title indexed]
Thunderfist / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Leo Bachle (signed)
- Pencils
- Leo Bachle (signed)
- Inks
- Leo Bachle (signed)
- Letters
- Leo Bachle (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm terribly worried about my young brother Dave...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Randy Steele [Thunderfist]; Beverley Holmes; Dave Holmes; Rusty Ryan; Slick Spence
- Synopsis
- Gangsters have threatened Beverley's brother.
Indexer Notes
At the end of the story a devil is shown with the face of Hitler.
Chapter 2.. Cavern's Collapse
King Fury / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Kurly Lipas (signed)
- Pencils
- Kurly Lipas (signed)
- Inks
- Kurly Lipas (signed)
- Letters
- Kurly Lipas (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Even King, with all his great strength, cannot combat the choking effects of the gas...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- King Fury; Bill Mason; Hans Mueller; Tanya
- Synopsis
- Tanya has a change of heart.
[no title indexed]
Hitler Has Troubles! / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Cha! R.C.A.F. bomb... trouble! Groan.....
- Genre
- humour; war
- Characters
- Adolf Hitler; Hermann Goering
- Synopsis
- Damage the Canadian bomber raids have done to Germany.
[no title indexed]
Goofy Tales / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A boiler maker by the name of Lou Cobb -
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Lou Cobb
- Synopsis
- Lou's ability to sleep at work, but not at home.
[no title indexed]
Active Jim / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Adrian Dingle (signed as Darian)
- Pencils
- Adrian Dingle (signed as Darian)
- Inks
- Adrian Dingle (signed as Darian)
- Letters
- Adrian Dingle (signed as Darian)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Rumors create panic!
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Active Jim; Joan Brian; Mary; Lue; Max; Smitty Oberdorf
- Synopsis
- A rumor that war savings certificates will be worthless after the war are causing students to sell them.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Dixon of the Mounted -
1.
[Canada's Greatest Comic Magazines]
-
2.
["In search of an unknown and presumably foreign broadcasting station..."]
Dixon of the Mounted -
3.
["Doctor, will I be able to play the piano when my hand heals?"]
Laff and Be Happy -
4.
["Did ja know running is good fer the figure Oswald?"]
Laff and Be Happy -
5.
["If you'll remember correctly, because I truly don't, Capt. Thortan on a special mission..."]
Capt. Red Thortan -
6.
["By the time you read this Christmas 1943 will be over."]
Active Jim's Message -
7.
["Well look who's coming down the street.... my old.... friend.... Drool!!"]
Eggbert -
8.
["Promptly at eight-thirty a gloved hand rings the bell of Miss Betty Thompkins apartment."]
The Brain -
9.
["Howdy - I see you want a hired man!"]
Cornville Junction -
10.
["I'm terribly worried about my young brother Dave..."]
Thunderfist -
11.
[no title indexed]
Club News & Views -
12.
Chapter 2.. Cavern's Collapse
King Fury -
13.
["Cha! R.C.A.F. bomb... trouble! Groan....."]
Hitler Has Troubles! -
14.
["A boiler maker by the name of Lou Cobb -"]
Goofy Tales -
15.
["Rumors create panic!"]
Active Jim -
16.
[Automatic Anti-Aircraft Gun]
-
17.
[Here's a Smashing Bargain!]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Keith Alan Morgan
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