Feature Comics
#64
(January 1943)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-11-25
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Favorites Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Gill Fox (credited as Gilbert Fox) (editor)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2.
The Unlucky Quarter
Doll Man / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; "Once More" Charlie (first appearance); Midnight Joe (first appearance, villain, death); Louie (first appearance, villain, death); Prof. Belittle (first appearance, villain, death); Slick Simmons (first appearance, villain, death); Peg (first appearance, villain, death)
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gosh ma - you mean to say Uncle Phil is going from house to house trying to sell this gadget?
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
strip reprints
[Death to Irving Gershwin]
Swing Sisson / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Phil Martin (signed)
- Pencils
- Phil Martin (signed)
- Inks
- Phil Martin (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Swing Sisson; Irving Gershwin (first appearance, a song writer); Von Brunt (first appearance, villain); his Nazis (first appearance, villains)
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm practicin' some funny falls for next season, boss!
- Genre
- humor
[The Death Emerald]
Zero, Ghost Detective / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Zero; Vern Hobson (introduction); Ann Hobson (villain, introduction); Death (villain)
Indexer Notes
Another swipe from Saint-Saens's "Danse Macabre".
Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boy! What a costume I rented.
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza
[The Traitorous Actor]
Spider Widow and the Raven / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Frank Borth (signed)
- Pencils
- Frank Borth (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Borth (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayson]; The Raven [Tony Grey]; Lee (introduction); Matt (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Dianne takes up acting as a hobby and begins appearing in summer theatre productions outside New York. She discovers that one of her fellow actors is a spy, and the Raven steps in to help her nab him.
[no title indexed]
Homer Doodle and Son / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gee whiz - I sure wish I had a nice dog like that!
- Genre
- humor
[Kismet El Aschid]
Spin Shaw / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ? [as Rex Smith] (signed)
- Pencils
- Bob Powell
- Inks
- Bob Powell
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- aviation; adventure
- Characters
- Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Kismet El Aschid (villain, introduction); the Nazis (villains)
Death from the Skies
Perry Scott / text story / 1.67 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Perry Scott
Indexer Notes
No feature name.
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
- Script
- Busy Arnold (credited as Everett M. Arnold) (business manager)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
On the bottom of the first text-story page.
[Origin of the Bungling Buddha]
Blimpy / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Blimpy [aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain] (introduction, origin); Tabby Tyler (introduction); Inspector Sherlock Foo (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Blimpy, an ancient Oriental Buddha statue brought to life when young Tabby Tyler spoke the magic words: "Oggle doggie woggle ibbidy bibbidy sibbidy sab, dictionary down the ferry, out goes ipso facto with the floy-floy!" covers his blue skin with coal dust and tries to pass for an African-American.
[How To Be a Super Salesman]
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Genre
- adventure; children; spy
- Characters
- Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty; Moi Yutong]; Wilbert T. Thump (introduction); Kurt Luger (introduction, death); Alfred Krantz (villain, introduction)
Indexer Notes
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Case of the Unlucky Quarter
Doll Man -
1.
The Unlucky Quarter
Doll Man -
2.
["Gosh ma - you mean to say Uncle Phil is going from house to house trying to sell this gadget?"]
Mickey Finn -
3.
[Death to Irving Gershwin]
Swing Sisson -
4.
["I'm practicin' some funny falls for next season, boss!"]
Big Top -
5.
[The Human Fly]
Poison Ivy -
6.
[The Death Emerald]
Zero, Ghost Detective -
7.
["Boy! What a costume I rented."]
Lala Palooza -
8.
[The Traitorous Actor]
Spider Widow and the Raven -
9.
["Gee whiz - I sure wish I had a nice dog like that!"]
Homer Doodle and Son -
10.
[Kismet El Aschid]
Spin Shaw -
11.
Death from the Skies
Perry Scott -
12.
[no title indexed]
-
13.
[Origin of the Bungling Buddha]
Blimpy -
14.
[How To Be a Super Salesman]
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers
This issue was modified by, among others
- Keith Chandler
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- Len Wolinsky
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