Feature Comics
#104
(November 1946)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Favorites Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Gwen Hansen
The Man Whose Touch Is Death
Doll Man / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Dix (first appearance); Crane (first appearance; villain)
[In Fisticufia]
Perky / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Perky; Jake Hiccups (first appearance); Thomas Thumb (first appearance); Two-Ton Titanic (first appearance)
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And I was thinkin' how nice it would be to have a dog around the house
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza; Vincent Palooza
- Synopsis
- Vincent wants a dog for a pet.
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now that we got a new fence, I can take a nice daily nap in the sun!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza; Vincent Palooza
- Synopsis
- A sleeping Vincent falls prey to some mischievous kids.
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And you really think a psychoanalyst could tell me why I ain't a success?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza; Vincent Palooza; Dr. Sigmund Quack
- Synopsis
- Vincent's rant to a bogus psychoanalyst about his sister Lala gets him into trouble.
[Diamonds In the Trumpet]
Swing Sisson / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Swing Sisson; Marmo and his gang (first appearance; villains; one death)
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Philip is going to eat downtown tonight, Michael?
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
strip reprints
Red God
Perry Scott / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Hyatt ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Perry Scott
[Herk U. Lees Gym]
Poison Ivy / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Poison Ivy; Herk U. Lees (first appearance)
Indexer Notes
Previous indexer credited Bernard Dibble but this does not look at all like any of his work (including 2 other strips in this issue, Lala Palooza and Big Top). Bails credits both Gill Fox and Paul Gustavson with art on the Poison Ivy strip in 1946.
[The Hunting Trip]
Roscoe / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Roscoe
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A whistling monkey?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Boss Jeff Bangs; Butch; Farragut
- Synopsis
- Butch obtains a whistling monkey for the circus but the monkey gets him into trouble.
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm telling you, Boss...this one-man band act of mine is a real novelty!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Butch; Boss Jeff Bangs; Manny the Midget
- Synopsis
- Butch's one-man band is actually a midget with a phonograph hidden inside a drum.
- Reprints
-
in Marmaduke Mouse (Quality Comics, 1946 series) #55 (November 1955)
-
[The Pearl Devil]
Rusty Ryan / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children; spy
- Characters
- Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Alababa; Pierpont Lee]; The Pearl Devil [Jones] (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.
Touch of Death!
Doll Man -
1.
The Man Whose Touch Is Death
Doll Man -
2.
[The Fireman]
Blimpy -
3.
[In Fisticufia]
Perky -
4.
["And I was thinkin' how nice it would be to have a dog around the house"]
Lala Palooza -
5.
["Now that we got a new fence, I can take a nice daily nap in the sun!"]
Lala Palooza -
6.
["And you really think a psychoanalyst could tell me why I ain't a success?"]
Lala Palooza -
7.
[Diamonds In the Trumpet]
Swing Sisson -
8.
["Philip is going to eat downtown tonight, Michael?"]
Mickey Finn -
9.
Red God
Perry Scott -
10.
[Herk U. Lees Gym]
Poison Ivy -
11.
[The Hunting Trip]
Roscoe -
12.
["A whistling monkey?"]
Big Top -
13.
["I'm telling you, Boss...this one-man band act of mine is a real novelty!"]
Big Top -
14.
[The Pearl Devil]
Rusty Ryan
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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