Wow Comics #5

(February 1942)

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Strange Facts Scrapbook / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

Edmond Good (signed)

Pencils

Edmond Good (signed)

Inks

Edmond Good (signed)

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The poison scorpion when surrounded by fire... will commit suicide!

Genre

non-fiction

Synopsis

Facts about scorpions, fishermen of Ceylon and fish candles.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Treacherous Trails (Table of Contents: 2)

Dart Daring / comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Script

Edmund Legault (signed as E.T. Legault)

Pencils

Edmund Legault (signed as E.T. Legault)

Inks

Edmund Legault (signed as E.T. Legault)

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Edmund Legault (signed as E.T. Legault)

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Desperately, Dart clings to the slimy boulder.

Genre

adventure; western-frontier

Characters

Dart Daring; Loraine Knight; Robert Huntley; Black Bill

Synopsis

Dart is saved from the falls.

Thomas Alva Edison (Table of Contents: 3)

Great Men / text article / 1 page (report information)

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The Wizard of Menlo Park

Genre

non-fiction; biography

Characters

Thomas Alva Edison

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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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cartoon / 1 page (report information)

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I call for help and look what he sends me!

Genre

humour

Characters

Hermann Goering

Synopsis

A flustered Goering receives a copy of Mein Kampf from Hitler instead of military support.

Devil Wolf (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Edmond Good (credited as Edmond E. Good)

Pencils

Edmond Good (credited as Edmond E. Good)

Inks

Edmond Good (credited as Edmond E. Good)

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typeset

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Finally the rain stopped, low rumbling of distant thunder re-echoed over Pelee Lake as Don turned his canoe up on the shore, and slid it into the water

Genre

adventure

Characters

Don; Jerry; Slim Bain; Pop Jenkins

Synopsis

Brothers Don and Jerry are camping near Alden Mills and feel there's nothing exciting, until the sherrif tells them about the devil wolf of Skull Island.

Contest Winners (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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cartoon / 1 page (report information)

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Wow! Three more shovels and Pop says I can read my comics!

Genre

humour

Synopsis

A little boy shovels snow for the privilege of reading his comic books.

Reprints

• in The Great Canadian Comic Books (Peter Martin Associates, 1971 series) (1971)

Howard (Hangman) Cantonwine, the World's Rough-House Champion (Table of Contents: 9)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

Lou Skuce (signed)

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Lou Skuce (signed)

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Lou Skuce (signed)

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I'll down this baby

Genre

non-fiction; sport

Characters

Howard Cantonwine

Reprints

• from Corcoran's Wrestling Guide ?

[Wrestling moves] (Table of Contents: 10)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script

J. J. Corcoran ?

Pencils

Lou Skuce

Inks

Lou Skuce

Colors

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Letters

typeset

Genre

sport

Reprints

• from Corcoran's Wrestling Guide ?

Indexer Notes

Illustrated guide to wrestling, begins at "position no.32."

Goering's Luftwaffe (German Air Force) (Table of Contents: 11)

Wings of All Nations / illustration / 1 page (report information)

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Genre

non-fiction; aviation

Pastime Page (Table of Contents: 12)

activity / 1 page (report information)

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Characters

Dart Daring; Whiz Wallace

Indexer Notes

Includes cut-out "Victory Bucks" and stamps featuring Dart Daring & Whiz Wallace.

Whiz Wallace and the Bat-Beasts of Aralee (Table of Contents: 13)

Whiz Wallace / comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Script

Edmund Legault (signed as E.T. Legault)

Pencils

Edmund Legault (signed as E.T. Legault)

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Edmund Legault (signed as E.T. Legault)

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Edmund Legault (signed as E.T. Legault)

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Their rocketship wrecked in the desolate mountains of Aralee, Whiz Wallace and Elaine Kenyon find themselves marooned...

Genre

adventure; science fiction

Characters

Elaine Kenyon; Whiz Wallace

Synopsis

Elaine is captured by the bat-beasts of Aralee.

The Great Nose Dive (Table of Contents: 14)

cartoon / 1 page (report information)

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Who says it's your ocean?

Genre

humour

Characters

John Bull; Benito Mussolini; Adolf Hitler

Synopsis

As Mussolini dives toward a tub of water, John Bull yanks the tub away.

Indexer Notes

On inside back cover.

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