Joke Comics
#17
Bell Features,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 CAD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Bell Features and Publishing Company Limited
- Brand
-
Bell Features
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
Private Stuff / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Ted Steele (signed)
- Pencils
- Ted Steele (signed)
- Inks
- Ted Steele (signed)
- Letters
- Ted Steele (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As our little tale opens.. we find our two morons (first class), on a troop ship, bound for sunny Italy!
- Genre
- humour; war
- Characters
- Private Stuff; Private Ward
- Synopsis
- The troop carrier Stuff and Ward are on gets torpedoed.
[no title indexed]
Professor Punk / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Harry Brunt (signed)
- Pencils
- Harry Brunt (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Brunt (signed)
- Letters
- Harry Brunt (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Germans used radio-controlled "baby tanks" in Normandy with little success. Do you know why they failed? Heh! Heh!
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Professor Punk
- Synopsis
- How the Professor stopped the German baby tanks at Normandy.
[no title indexed]
War Hawks / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Dan Baldasse (signed)
- Pencils
- Dan Baldasse (signed)
- Inks
- Dan Baldasse (signed)
- Letters
- Dan Baldasse (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I am Sky-Master!
- Genre
- aviation
- Characters
- Sky-Master [Von Brus]; War Hawks [War Hawk; Stew; Dave]; Von Trautz
- Synopsis
- Sky-Master duels War Hawk.
[no title indexed]
Snaps / cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Frank Keith (signed)
- Pencils
- Frank Keith (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Keith (signed)
- Letters
- Frank Keith (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He wuz one ob ouah best drummers, but he done went nuts tryin' to drum out a message in Japanese, when de enemy held dese islands!
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Hepworth; Goona; King Bohoh; Roona
Indexer Notes
Six one-panel cartoons.
[no title indexed]
Doodlebugs / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Carl Alton (credited)
- Pencils
- Ed Alton (credited)
- Inks
- Ed Alton (credited)
- Letters
- Ed Alton (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Nobody" squeals on "Jelly-Jowls Johnson!"
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Jelly-Jowls Johnson; Mike; King Bizzby; Lucifer Lovelouse; Ginkbee Gubblewarts; Rufus Wifflesnoot; Crusher
- Synopsis
- When two vending machines with cranes are dumped in Doodlebugville, two Doodlebug construction companies want the cranes.
[no title indexed]
Casey Bones / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Frank Keith (signed)
- Pencils
- Frank Keith (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Keith (signed)
- Letters
- Frank Keith (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- No "eight-eighty-eight" with Casey Hogmire, Josh, Bones and his Fire-"man" Toots, Talooshus, Turnpike in charge of conductor, J. Hedgewood, Precarious, roars through the night loaded with guns.
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Casey Hogmire Josh Bones; Toots Talooshus Turnpike; J. Hedgewood Precarious
- Synopsis
- A Nazi tries to destroy the train.
[no title indexed]
Spike and Mike / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Ross Saakel (signed)
- Pencils
- Ross Saakel (signed)
- Inks
- Ross Saakel (signed)
- Letters
- Ross Saakel (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boy! It shore is chilly this evenin'!
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Spike; Mike Rafone; the Devil; George
- Synopsis
- Spike and Mike go to Hell.
[no title indexed]
Lank the Yank / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Harry Brunt (signed)
- Pencils
- Harry Brunt (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Brunt (signed)
- Letters
- Harry Brunt (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look gals - here's a letter from cousin Lank - he's in the U.S. marines - he says
- Genre
- humour; war
- Characters
- Lank
- Synopsis
- Lank uses an unusual weapon to empty a Japanese pill box.
[no title indexed]
Weatherby Potts / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Alton (credited)
- Pencils
- Ed Alton (credited)
- Inks
- Ed Alton (credited)
- Letters
- Ed Alton (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pack your bags Clarence we're going to Cairo
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Weatherby Potts; Clarence Slopkiss; Fritz; Hermen; Adolf Hitler (picture)
- Synopsis
- Weatherby has to find a missing British agent in Egypt.
Dog Days
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My choke gang doesn't like me any more
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
Indexer Notes
Two two-page comics and a one-page comic.
[no title indexed]
Action in the Pacific / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Aram Alexanian (signed)
- Pencils
- Aram Alexanian (signed)
- Inks
- Aram Alexanian (signed)
- Letters
- Aram Alexanian (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dawn finds a lone U. S. submarine on the hunt for Jap shipping in the area around the Aleutions....
- Genre
- war
- Synopsis
- A US submarine encounters three enemy ships.
[no title indexed]
Night Hawk / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Dan Baldasse (signed)
- Pencils
- Dan Baldasse (signed)
- Inks
- Dan Baldasse (signed)
- Letters
- Dan Baldasse (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'll take this money into the bank and deposit it!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Night Hawk [Bob Neven]; Mr. Fidler; Black X [George Mueller]
- Synopsis
- Night Hawk tracks down some bank robbers.
[no title indexed]
The Wing; Nitro / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Gerald Lazare (credited as Jerry Lazare)
- Pencils
- Gerald Lazare (credited as Jerry Lazare)
- Inks
- Gerald Lazare (credited as Jerry Lazare)
- Letters
- Gerald Lazare (credited as Jerry Lazare)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You know who this gorgeous gal is don't you?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Wing [Trixie Rogers]; Nitro [Terry King]; Monk; Doctor Webb
- Synopsis
- The Wing meets Nitro.
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Swiped from the Phantom Lady story in Police Comics #20 (Quality).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Hey, Stuff! We've been torpedoed!"]
Private Stuff -
1.
["Hope we don't hit the target before I finish this Colossal!"]
-
2.
["As our little tale opens.. we find our two morons (first class), on a troop ship, bound for sunny Italy!"]
Private Stuff -
3.
["The Germans used radio-controlled "baby tanks" in Normandy with little success. Do you know why they failed? Heh! Heh!"]
Professor Punk -
4.
["I am Sky-Master!"]
War Hawks -
5.
["He wuz one ob ouah best drummers, but he done went nuts tryin' to drum out a message in Japanese, when de enemy held dese islands!"]
Snaps -
6.
[""Nobody" squeals on "Jelly-Jowls Johnson!""]
Doodlebugs -
7.
["No "eight-eighty-eight" with Casey Hogmire, Josh, Bones and his Fire-"man" Toots, Talooshus, Turnpike in charge of conductor, J. Hedgewood, Precarious, roars through the night loaded with guns."]
Casey Bones -
8.
["Boy! It shore is chilly this evenin'!"]
Spike and Mike -
9.
["Look gals - here's a letter from cousin Lank - he's in the U.S. marines - he says"]
Lank the Yank -
10.
["Pack your bags Clarence we're going to Cairo"]
Weatherby Potts -
11.
Dog Days
-
12.
["Dawn finds a lone U. S. submarine on the hunt for Jap shipping in the area around the Aleutions...."]
Action in the Pacific -
13.
["I'll take this money into the bank and deposit it!"]
Night Hawk -
14.
["You know who this gorgeous gal is don't you?"]
The Wing; Nitro -
15.
[Canada's Greatest Comic Magazines]
-
16.
["Print your own snapshots at a fraction of the cost!"]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Jim Van Dore
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