Bell ’s fighting Comics # 29 is an strange combination of a mystical Adrian Dingle cover with Matt Baker ’s South Sea Girl within .
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alive Comics # 29came out at a prison term when Bell Features was essay to pitch up to take on the increasing contention of U.S. funny book publishers . By the time this issue attain newsstands around July 1946 , WECA Schedule One , which had effectively proscribe the import and reprinting of U.S. comic book in Canada , had been repealed for near two years . Competition had steadily increased in the Canadian market as a result , and Bell convertedActive Comicsto full color with this upshot for the first time .
The interior ofActive Comics # 29comes fromSamuel " Jerry " Iger ’s Universal Phoenix Feature titleSouth Sea Comics # 1 . Of of course , this story features the debut ofMatt Baker ’s South Sea Girl . But the cover of this issue byAdrian Dingleappears to be connectedwith the Guy Powers : Secret Agent account fromSlam - Bang Comics # 7featuring a mad scientist ’s experiments and a cleaning woman in peril . Guy Powers stories byHarry Thomson , Adrian Dinkle , andFred Kellyhad run in several emergence of Bell’sWow Comics , Active Comics # 28 , andSlam - Bang # 7 . The character is anagent of Canadian Intelligencewho makes the transition to secret investigator after WWII ends .
South Sea Girl was Baker ’s first work on a distaff feature character since his collaborative artwork interest in Sheena a year and a half anterior toSouth Seas Comics # 1 . His co - creator , versatile authorManning Lee Stokes(June 21 , 1911 – January 5 , 1976 ) write the South Sea Girl stories in a way that earmark Baker to showcase the esthetic strengths for which he would become famous . Stokes has a handful of credits in comedian besides his South Sea Girl oeuvre , includingClassics Illustrated , and perhaps work again with Baker on Rulah inZoot Comics . Most Famously , Stokes pen the compilation - size graphic novelThe Case of the Winking Buddha , with art byCharles Raaband issue by St. John in 1950 . Stokes had become a prolific paperback novelist by that time , producing an incredible range of work from the former forties through the 1970s .
The 1946 - 1957 earned run average proved to be challenging for Bell , and several of its serial publication were intermit by 1947 , to return with young counseling in the FECA era . Active Comics # 29 is a singular combination of Adrian Dingle blanket with Matt Baker interiors . There ’s anActive Comics # 29(Bell feature of speech , 1946)Condition : FN- copyup for auction at the 2025 March 13Canadian Golden Age Comics ShowcaseAuction # 40290 .
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