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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 11, 2021 21:07:14 GMT -5
ps Forgot Warren's Blazing Combat, with stories by Archie Goodwin and some top artists. 4 issues before Warren killed it or lose the business of the Army PXs; but, 4 amazing issues. This is the first post I've seen you submit that didn't have 20 paragraphs. Just kidding man, you have so much knowledge , I'm dyeing to have you join us one day in the Zoom meeting. The problem of a retail job; I work nearly every weekend.
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Post by kirby101 on Jun 11, 2021 21:14:01 GMT -5
This is the first post I've seen you submit that didn't have 20 paragraphs. Just kidding man, you have so much knowledge , I'm dyeing to have you join us one day in the Zoom meeting. The problem of a retail job; I work nearly every weekend. Last time e was Wednesday evening.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 11, 2021 21:55:45 GMT -5
The problem of a retail job; I work nearly every weekend. Last time e was Wednesday evening. And I usually close the store. I swear, I'm not trying to avoid anyone; just with miniscule power comes great responsibility (and corporate micro-management). I didn't even get to shelter in place, at the start of the pandemic!
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Post by antoine on Jun 12, 2021 19:45:42 GMT -5
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I couldn't find a "Help me identify that comic" thread. I got this comic this week and I can't find it ANYWHERE online. The publisher is Bell Features, which was a Canadian publisher. From what I know they used to do original all-canadian material at first but then switch to reprints with original covers. Has anyone seen this before? I'm mostly looking for a date. I'm pretty sure it's from the early 50s. Maybe someone will recognize the artist? Maybe Six-Shooter was a tv show I've never heard about? There's no date, no name anywhere. No dates on the ads either. I'm guessing they are canadian ads, anyone know in what year a dress cost 3,99$ canadian? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
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Post by foxley on Jun 12, 2021 20:08:37 GMT -5
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I couldn't find a "Help me identify that comic" thread. I got this comic this week and I can't find it ANYWHERE online. The publisher is Bell Features, which was a Canadian publisher. From what I know they used to do original all-canadian material at first but then switch to reprints with original covers. Has anyone seen this before? I'm mostly looking for a date. I'm pretty sure it's from the early 50s. Maybe someone will recognize the artist? Maybe Six-Shooter was a tv show I've never heard about? There's no date, no name anywhere. No dates on the ads either. I'm guessing they are canadian ads, anyone know in what year a dress cost 3,99$ canadian? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! There was a The Six Shooter radio show (starring Jimmy Stewart), which was adapted into a television show called The Restless Gun (with John Payne in the Jimmy Stewart role), but I don't think this comic book is connected.
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Post by antoine on Jun 12, 2021 20:29:13 GMT -5
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I couldn't find a "Help me identify that comic" thread. I got this comic this week and I can't find it ANYWHERE online. The publisher is Bell Features, which was a Canadian publisher. From what I know they used to do original all-canadian material at first but then switch to reprints with original covers. Has anyone seen this before? I'm mostly looking for a date. I'm pretty sure it's from the early 50s. Maybe someone will recognize the artist? Maybe Six-Shooter was a tv show I've never heard about? There's no date, no name anywhere. No dates on the ads either. I'm guessing they are canadian ads, anyone know in what year a dress cost 3,99$ canadian? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! There was a The Six Shooter radio show (starring Jimmy Stewart), which was adapted into a television show called The Restless Gun (with John Payne in the Jimmy Stewart role), but I don't think this comic book is connected.
ah interesting! I didn't know that. I found some The Restless Gun comics (from the Four Color Dell Series), so maybe it's a reprint from something like that, but I doubt it, as all the Bell features comics I own are from before the four colors "The restless Gun" ones.. The woman in the comic is called Lola. Also interesting is that it's issue #11 from the series. Now I know they used to not put #1 on some issues to help sales back in the day, so maybe it is indeed the first issues of a series...
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Post by brutalis on Jun 12, 2021 20:44:34 GMT -5
Looking up Bell Features via internet I found several articles noting they were doing big business printing comics in Canada from 1941 to 1945. In '45 the shipping/publishing laws changed and opened up the border for US comics and magazine distribution into Canada. They didn't last very long afterwards that I can tell.
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Post by commond on Jun 12, 2021 20:52:05 GMT -5
Based on their other publications, it looks like circa 1950-51.
Here's what comics.org has to say:
"Company known as Commercial Signs of Canada from 1939-1942, though their first comics weren't published until 1941. Canadian Golden-Age publisher of original material and then of reprints of American comics from various publishers.
Bell's output can be divided into 4 time periods.
The first, and arguably the most important, period is from 1941 to early 1946. During this time Bell produced 100% Canadian comics, known popularly as Canadian Whites (even though a few of the early ones were actually in full colour).
The second period is a very short time in 1946 when Bell was producing comics for the British market. These normally had an original Canadian cover with a reprint of a contemporary U.S. comic inside.
After this was the third period where Bell reprinted U.S. comics with covers from the U.S. comics themselves. Comics from Archie, Marvel, Quality and other U.S. publishers were common. Sometimes the comic being reprinted had the correct cover, sometimes it didn't. This period was from approximately 1948 to 1951.
The fourth period is after 1951. Bell continued to reprint U.S. comics but mostly under different titles and covers from the original U.S. comics. Splash pages were modified to serve as covers or illustrations from one company were combined with logos from another and some of the titles and logos from the Canadian Whites were revived.
Besides a few of the very early Canadian Whites, a few of the British exports and a couple of the earliest U.S. reprints, Bell did not include dates in the comics. The estimated dates are based, primarily, on the earliest possible date based on what is being reprinted. The estimated dates of other issues in the series are also taken into account as well as the existence of date stamps. It is quite possible that some comics were actually published months or even a year or two after our estimated date."
They went out of business in 1953.
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Post by mlk78 on Jun 12, 2021 20:52:40 GMT -5
From what I looked up. it looks like a Canadian reprint of Range Romances #3 (April 1950) from Quality Comics link
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Post by commond on Jun 12, 2021 21:00:23 GMT -5
Nice find.
It even has the same ad.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 12, 2021 22:09:29 GMT -5
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I couldn't find a "Help me identify that comic" thread. I got this comic this week and I can't find it ANYWHERE online. The publisher is Bell Features, which was a Canadian publisher. From what I know they used to do original all-canadian material at first but then switch to reprints with original covers. Has anyone seen this before? I'm mostly looking for a date. I'm pretty sure it's from the early 50s. Maybe someone will recognize the artist? Maybe Six-Shooter was a tv show I've never heard about? There's no date, no name anywhere. No dates on the ads either. I'm guessing they are canadian ads, anyone know in what year a dress cost 3,99$ canadian? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
I haven't been able to locate any info on this specific title, but Bell ceased publication and folded in 1953, so that puts it between 1946 and 1953, as almost all of Bell's output prior to and during the WWII had black & white interiors.
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Post by Farrar on Jun 12, 2021 22:27:32 GMT -5
From what I looked up. it looks like a Canadian reprint of Range Romances #3 (April 1950) from Quality Comics linkAnd the cover's a modified/painted version of the cover of Range Romances #5LINK
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Post by antoine on Jun 13, 2021 8:47:16 GMT -5
From what I looked up. it looks like a Canadian reprint of Range Romances #3 (April 1950) from Quality Comics linkWow yes it looks like it! How were you able to find this? I have a few more Bell features Comics I'd like to find.
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Post by antoine on Jun 13, 2021 8:48:49 GMT -5
Nice find. It even has the same ad. Wait how do you know this? Can you check inside the comics on that website?
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Post by antoine on Jun 13, 2021 9:04:27 GMT -5
From what I looked up. it looks like a Canadian reprint of Range Romances #3 (April 1950) from Quality Comics linkAnd the cover's a modified/painted version of the cover of Range Romances #5LINK
Yes you are right! Thank you so much everyone for your help!
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