Feature Comics #83

(November 1944)

Mechanical Man (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dan Zolnerowich ?

Inks:

Dan Zolnerowich ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; The Mechanical Man (villain, introduction, only appearance, a robot); Professor Rudio (villain, introduction, only appearance)

Synopsis:

The diminutive Professor Rudio tricks Doll Man into submitting to tests to unlock the secrets of his power, and the mighty mite finds himself trapped. He later learns that the professor was merely distracting Doll Man from his true invention: The Mechanical Man, a robot which is used to rob the Cosmopolitan Museum of rare art objects.

Indexer Notes

Originally credited "Al Bryant ?", but walking figures, a gaping face and broad shoulders with stretched neck look more like Zolnerowich, but uncertain.

["Our menagerie needs a shot in the arm..."] (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

["Gee, Tom..."] (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:

Philip; Florrie; Tom

Reprints:

• from newspaper strips (?)

Clover Club (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; Mr. Mason

Synopsis:

Swing and his friends are kidnapped by an ambulance.

["Dat kid Poison Ivy is getting to be a nuisance!"] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Gill Fox

Pencils:

Gill Fox

Inks:

Gill Fox

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Poison Ivy

["That rich widow has never seen me with my hat off..."] (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

Reprints:

• from newspaper strips (?)

["Flash! ...U.S. Naval ace faces court-martial..."] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Irving Tirman ?; Bill Quackenbush ?

Inks:

Irving Tirman ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

aviation

Characters:

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

Synopsis:

Spin Shaw is found guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.

Indexer Notes

Some heads in 3/4 backview with the jawbone going back behind the ear is peculiar, as on page 3 point to Tirman, but some short figures look like Quackenbush.

["It's no dream, folks!"] (Table of Contents)

Blimpy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tony DiPreta

Pencils:

Tony DiPreta

Inks:

Tony DiPreta

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Kitchen Boy Wanted (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

["There's always something new in the South Seas!"] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Quackenbush (signed)

Inks:

Bill Quackenbush (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure; children; spy

Characters:

Rusty Ryan; Pierpont Lee; Alabama; Boyville Brigadiers

Synopsis:

Rusty and his friends fight dinosaurs on a Pacific island.