Feature Comics
#65
(February 1943)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-12-23
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Favorites Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Gill 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.
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Never mind the oil ration card, Lala!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza; Vincent Doolittle; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Blimpy (inset)
The Black Atom
Doll Man / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; The Black Atom (villain, introduction, death?)
- Synopsis
- Doll Man faces the Black Atom, who has the ability to vanish in a puff of smoke.
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How come Uncle Phil didn't go to the Halloween ball at his lodge tonight, Ma?
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- from Mickey Finn daily or Sunday (McNaught Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX - 19XX-XX-XX
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When the boss sees my new comic routine he's bound to give me a raise!
- Genre
- humor
The Man Nobody Loved
Zero, Ghost Detective / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Zero; Amos Trentwell (introduction); Eloise (villain, a vampire, introduction, death)
Indexer Notes
Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.
[The Mechanical Gangster]
Blimpy / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Blimpy [Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain]; The Mechanical Gangster [4-F Harry] (villain, introduction)
Indexer Notes
Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This new bird Lala bought ain't let out a peep all day!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza
There Ain't Gonna Be No Santa Claus
Spider Widow and the Raven / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayson]; The Raven [Tony Grey]; Henry Shrivnel (introduction)
- Keywords
- Christmas
Indexer Notes
This story takes place December 25, 1942. In it, as well as the previous story, the pair begin to believe that they were meant to work together. In this story, the two establish a means of communicating with one another.
[Painting the Moon Black]
Inferior Man / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Inferior Man [Courtney Fudd]
Indexer Notes
Inferior Man's last appearance was in Military Comics #13 (November 1942), which was creator Al Jaffee's last issue. Beginning with this issue, and lasting until #72 (October 1943), Art Stahl takes over the feature. The strip no longer had Jaffee's warped sense of fantasy and Inferior Man's adventures became less military focused. Notes added by Craig Delich 2013-4-6.
[The Plot to Dynamite the Clover Club]
Swing Sisson / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Swing Sisson; Art King (first appearance, villain)
Skin Deep
Perry Scott / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Hyatt ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Perry Scott
[no title indexed]
Homer Doodle and Son / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now, have a lot of fun today, but be careful!
- Genre
- humor
[The Fate of Kino]
Spin Shaw / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- aviation; adventure
- Characters
- Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Kino (introduction, death); the Japanese (villains)
[Enter Alababa]
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Paul Gustavson (see notes)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson (see notes)
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson (see notes)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (see notes)
- Genre
- adventure; children; spy
- Characters
- Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigade [Alababa (introduction); Pierpoint Lee (introduction); Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty; Moi Yutong]; the Nazis (villains)
- Synopsis
- During an adventure in North Africa, Rusty picks an Arab named Alababa and a zoot-suited African named Pierpoint Lee to join the Brigadiers.
Indexer Notes
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Never mind the oil ration card, Lala!"]
Lala Palooza -
1.
The Black Atom
Doll Man -
2.
["How come Uncle Phil didn't go to the Halloween ball at his lodge tonight, Ma?"]
Mickey Finn -
3.
["When the boss sees my new comic routine he's bound to give me a raise!"]
Big Top -
4.
The Man Nobody Loved
Zero, Ghost Detective -
5.
[The Mechanical Gangster]
Blimpy -
6.
["This new bird Lala bought ain't let out a peep all day!"]
Lala Palooza -
7.
[Butch the Purse-Snatcher]
Poison Ivy -
8.
There Ain't Gonna Be No Santa Claus
Spider Widow and the Raven -
9.
[Painting the Moon Black]
Inferior Man -
10.
[The Plot to Dynamite the Clover Club]
Swing Sisson -
11.
Skin Deep
Perry Scott -
12.
["Now, have a lot of fun today, but be careful!"]
Homer Doodle and Son -
13.
[The Fate of Kino]
Spin Shaw -
14.
[Enter Alababa]
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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