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| Solid scripts by Ted McCall and clean art by Ed Furness make this a good read. Nothing groundbreaking, but engaging and entertaining. First story features Nazis in the Gobi Desert -- in 1946. But after the War, those guys had to go someplace, right? |
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| This was a fun read. For some reason the artwork makes me think of how Wilson McCoy's "Phantom" would have looked if McCoy had drawn better. The idiosyncratic lettering is a bit hard to read, though. |
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| Looking at 'Anglo-American Publishing Co. Ltd ' listing on CB+, I think that there is a mixture of US reprints (from Fawcett) and original material.
Looking for info on Canadian Comics I found this Canadian Government Archive esaay, which gives a pretty thorough walk-through of Canadian Comic book history.
https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/comics/027002-8100-e.html
cheers! |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | April 1946 | Price: 0.10 CAD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Featuring | Freelance |
| Credits | Script: Ted McCall | Pencils: Ed Furness | Inks: Ed Furness? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Freelance; Big John Collins; Natasha |
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| Featuring | Johnson Smith ad |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Synopsis | Freelance, Big John Collins, and Natasha are stranded in the Gobi Desert. Freelance foils the plans of a camp of Nazi sympathizers. |
| Featuring | Freelance |
| Credits | Script: Ted McCall | Pencils: Ed Furness | Inks: Ed Furness? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Freelance; Big John Collins; Natasha; K7 |
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| Synopsis | Sooper Dooper tricks fifty cents out of his father by playing dumb. |
| Featuring | Sooper Dooper |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sooper Dooper |
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| Synopsis | Freelance, Big John and Natasha save a future prince of Poramustan from death. |
| Featuring | Freelance |
| Credits | Script: Ted McCall | Pencils: Ed Furness | Inks: Ed Furness? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Freelance; Big John Collins; Natasha; Palali T'senmiu; Mei Tawn; Ning Yuan |
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| Text Story | Vermont comes to Texas (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Roger helps solve a cattle rustling ring. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Western-frontier | Characters: Roger Blake; Mrs. Burton; Sheriff Donahan; Mike Wallowy; Bill; Tansy |
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| Synopsis | Ning Yuan promises to show Freelance and company where the treasure she and Mei Tawn had stolen from the people is in exchange for her life. |
| Featuring | Freelance |
| Credits | Script: Ted McCall | Pencils: Ed Furness | Inks: Ed Furness? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Freelance; Big John Collins; Palali T'senmiu; Natasha; Ning Yuan; Moyat; Kisan |
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| Comic Story | Order in this Court (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Sooper is responsible for a hung jury. |
| Featuring | Sooper Dooper |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sooper Dooper |
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| Synopsis | Someone is using the Mongols to fight the allies. |
| Featuring | Freelance |
| Credits | Script: Ted McCall | Pencils: Ed Furness | Inks: Ed Furness? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Freelance; Big John Collins; Tsin; Honsu Shumi [Lord Haw-Haw] |
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| Featuring | Illinois Merchandise Mart ad |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
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| Featuring | Gold Crown Products ad |
| Credits | Pencils:?;? (photograph) | Inks:?;? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Top two-thirds of back cover. |
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| Featuring | Dean Studios |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Bottom third of back cover. |
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