Feature Comics #79

(July 1944)

The Little Luck God (Table of Contents)

Doll Man / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mort Leav

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Anson Mull (villain); Wayne Tyler (framed of murder); Pug Shuman (blackmailer); Martha Roberts

Synopsis:

The superstitious Anson Mull has bought the Little Luck God to be able to conquer everything by good luck.

Indexer Notes

Originally credited "Al Bryant?", but this is Mort Leav, who is credited on pencils on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. He is spotted by his lively faces and figures, and also by his large hands.

["More fan mail for Butch!"] (Table of Contents)

Big Top / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bernard Dibble

Pencils:

Bernard Dibble

Inks:

Bernard Dibble

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

["Tommy is too young to be taken to the movies, Phil..."] (Table of Contents)

Mickey Finn / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Lank Leonard (signed)

Pencils:

Lank Leonard (signed)

Inks:

Lank Leonard (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Tommy; Flossie; Phil

Indexer Notes

strip reprints

["Who is that funny looking guy?"] (Table of Contents)

Blimpy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tony DiPreta (signed)

Pencils:

Tony DiPreta (signed)

Inks:

Tony DiPreta (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Blimpy

["If you haven't some sort of a job tomorrow..."] (Table of Contents)

Lala Palooza / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bernard Dibble

Pencils:

Bernard Dibble

Inks:

Bernard Dibble

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

War Ration Book Four (Table of Contents)

Swing Sisson / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Vernon Henkel (signed)

Pencils:

Vernon Henkel (signed)

Inks:

Vernon Henkel (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor; detective-mystery

Characters:

Swing Sisson; Bonnie Baxter; Toby; Pete Jaxon (club owner); Bill Brunt

["Poison Oak, that little tough guy..."] (Table of Contents)

Poison Ivy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gill Fox (signed)

Pencils:

Gill Fox (signed)

Inks:

Gill Fox (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Poison Ivy

["Captain Spin Shaw, U.S.N., mislays a perfectly good aircraft carrier..."] (Table of Contents)

Spin Shaw / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Quackenbush

Inks:

Bill Quackenbush ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

aviation

Characters:

Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]

Synopsis:

Spin Shaw finds a tribe of New Guinea head-hunters.

Indexer Notes

A few heads in 3/4 backview with the jawbone going back behind the ear could point to Irving Tirman, but the many short figures and narrow heads in sideview look more like Quackenbush, and he is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who for 1944-46.

The Ghost Comes to Life (Table of Contents)

Perry Scott / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

["Jumpin' catfish!"] (Table of Contents)

Perky / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Sid Lazarus

Pencils:

Sid Lazarus

Inks:

Sid Lazarus

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

fantasy

Characters:

Perky

["Welcome, you Nips!"] (Table of Contents)

Rusty Ryan / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mort Leav

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure; children; spy

Characters:

Rusty Ryan; Pierpont Lee; Alabama; Boyville Brigadiers

Synopsis:

Both American and Japanese survivors get ashore on the same Pacific island.

Indexer Notes

Originally credited to Ed Dobrotka, but this is Mort Leav, with his large hands, lively figures and a special crouching way of running, with thighs lifted high. Dobrotka samples from Superman in Action Comics #69 have no resemblance to these Rusty Ryan stories. Both artists are credited on this feature, but all credited to Dobrotka have to be by Mort Leav.