Digital Comic Museum - Freelance Comics 33


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Issue data by 3Face
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FREELANCE #33, Aug-Sept 1946, 10 Cents, Anglo-American (labelled as Double A Comics), 52 Pages
(Looks to me like Ed Furness did all the pencils on the Freelance stories and considering the small number of Canadian artists very likely the inks as well, maybe even the lettering. See Ivan Kocmarek’s Heroes of the Home Front book).

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring: Freelance and Big John punching out Super Six villains, iconic cover
Credits: Script: Ted McCall, Pencils: Ed Furness (uncredited), Inks: Ed Furness ? (uncredited)
Genre: Adventure
Characters: Freelance, Big John Collins

Advertisement (1 page, inside cover, b&w)
Featuring: Glo-Crests ad

Advertisement (1 page, splash page)
Featuring: Commando Tough body building ad

Comic Story (16 pages) Freelance and the Mysterious Prisoner
Featuring: Freelance
Synopsis: Freelance and Big John go up against a “ghost army” dressing in stolen uniforms and vehicles to
attack and plunder Allied bases.
Credits: Script: Ted McCall, Pencils: Ed Furness (uncredited), Inks: Ed Furness ? (uncredited)
Genre: Adventure
Characters: Freelance, Big John Collins, Major Barnes

Comic Story: (1 page) Sooper Dooper Is Never Lost For Words
Featuring: Sooper Dooper
Synopsis: Sooper Dooper flummoxes a lecturing professor.
Genre: Humour
Characters: Sooper Dooper

Text Story (2 pages) Caught Red Handed
Synopsis: Smiley Davis clears his name of a mistaken crime.
Genre: Humour Mystery
Characters: Smiley Davis, Clem Saunders, Jack Conway

Comic Story: (14 pages) Freelance (untitled, “Hillbillies and the Mysterious Storm” my title)
Featuring: Freelance
Synopsis: In Tennessee, Freelance and Big John uncover a secret plot of the Super Six.
Genre: Adventure
Characters: Freelance, Big John Collins, Annie Lee Towbridge

Comic Story: (1 page) Sooper Dooper The Nuts
Featuring: Sooper Dooper
Synopsis: Sooper Dooper politics for Assistant Dog Catcher.
Genre: Humour
Characters: Sooper Dooper

Comic Story: (12 pages) Freelance in Underground Rockets
Featuring: Freelance
Synopsis: Freelance and Big John follow up a lead to a Super Six secret underground rocket factory in Germany.
Credits: Script: Ted McCall, Pencils: Ed Furness ? (uncredited) Inks: Ed Furness ? (uncredited)
Genre: Adventure
Characters: Freelance, Big John Collins, Diane King, Bruce Duncan

Advertisement (1 page)
Featuring: Sprayberry Radio Training ad
Credits: Photograph, drawing, typeset

Advertisement (1 page, inside back cover, b&w)
Featuring: How To Get Along With Girls ad
Credits: Drawings, typeset

Advertisement (1 page, back cover)
Featuring: Schwinn Bicycle ad
Credits: Photographs, drawing, typeset

First scan by new scanner 3Face!

14-October-2020 7:59 pm	\|
Username:	3Face
Comment:	My first "can" but I'd like to shout out to Yoc for doing the actual upload and tips on scanning. Three terrific Freelance stories by Ted & Ed. I'd like to read more of this character and more Canadian GA in general. Glad I could share something on the DCM! Enjoy!
14-October-2020 9:13 pm	\|
Username:	Yoc
Comment:	We love your 'can' do attitude. wink Happy to help here but you did all the heavy lifting.
15-October-2020 8:52 pm	\|
Username:	erwin-k
Comment:	Always great to find another Canadian White here on DCM. Nice art, and the writing is a bit more mature than some I have read.
18-October-2020 1:50 am	\|
Username:	3Face
Comment:	Thanks a bunch people! And I forgot the credit line in the more detailed contents description for the "...Mysterious Storm" story. Doh! Cheers from CANada! (If you want to take out any redundancies, feel free.)
21-October-2020 11:47 pm	\|
Username:	ghmcleod
Comment:	Thank You

Issue: #33
Published: August-September 1946, Price: 0.10 CAD, Pages: 52, Editing: John McKellar Calder (Managing Editor)
Color: Black And White Cover Later Colour Cover; Black And White Interior Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Newsprint Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: Contains ad for "Glo-Crests".

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Freelance
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Freelance

Comic Story (16 pages)	The Mysterious Prisoner
Featuring:	Freelance
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Freelance

Comic Story (1 page)	Sooper Dooper Is Never Lost for Words
Featuring:	Sooper Dooper
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Sooper Dooper

Text Story (2 pages)	Caught Red Handed
Featuring:	Smiley Davis
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Detective-mystery

Comic Story (14 pages)
Featuring:	Freelance
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Freelance

Comic Story (1 page)	The Nuts
Featuring:	Sooper Dooper
Synopsis:	Sooper Dooper runs for assistant dogcatcher.
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Sooper Dooper

Comic Story (12 pages)	Underground Rockets
Featuring:	Freelance
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Freelance

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