Issue: #5
Published: [circa late Summer 1950], Price: 0.10 CAD, Pages: 36, Editing: Harry Stein
Color: Colour Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
This Bell Feature Comic Group Make Entertaining Reading: |
| Synopsis: |
Ad for four comics from Bell Features: Indian Fighter, Captain Science, Spy Cases, and New Heroic Comics. Includes a picture of a kid in a bathtub reading comics. |
| Comic Story (9 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Ed wins money on the horses and takes Torchy and Tess out to dinner where Torchy's unravelling sweater dress causes a panic. |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Torchy Todd Tess Parker Ed Tracy |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Tess and Ed |
| Synopsis: |
Ed takes on a ventriloquist with a horse for client and accidentally becomes a circus performer. |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Tess Parker Ed Tracy |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Ed starts a parking lot and borrows a car to teach Torchy how to drive. Unfortunately an identical car is used at almost the same time to rob a bank. |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Torchy Ed Tracy Tess |
| Text Story (1 page) |
The Blonde Up Front |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Ed gets a job working at the wax museum and breaks a wax dummy of Cleopatra. Torchy dresses up as Cleopatra while Ed gets the dummy fixed, but ends up being lent out to a businessman's luncheon. |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Torchy Todd [as Cleopatra] Tess Parker Ed Tracy |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
Bendix Coaster Brake Wins Again! |
| Featuring: |
Bendix |
| Synopsis: |
Ad for Bendix bike coaster brakes. Eclipse Machine Division of Bendix Aviation Corporation, Elmira, New York. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
Dolls' Plastic Rain Capes |
| Synopsis: |
Ad for doll's clothes from Easy Mail Order Co. at 165 York Street, Toronto. |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
Miracle Skin Creme |
| Featuring: |
Miracle Drug Company |
| Synopsis: |
Ad for Miracle Skin Creme from Miracle Drug Company, 165 York Street, Toronto. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (photo) | Inks: ? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
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