Feature Comics
#38
(November 1940)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1940-09-25
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Favorites, Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Ed Cronin
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 4.
[no title indexed]
Doll Man / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Spin Shaw (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Rance Keane (inset); Samar (inset)
[The Deadly Toymaker]
Doll Man / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Kurt Killdor (first appearance; villain; death); Gimpy (first appearance; villain); other crooks (first appearance; villains)
- Synopsis
- Darrel Dane becomes a government detective.
[Mystery at the World's Fair]
Rance Keane / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Bill Smith (signed as Will Arthur)
- Pencils
- Bill Smith (signed as Will Arthur)
- Inks
- Bill Smith (signed as Will Arthur)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- western-frontier; adventure
- Characters
- Rance Keane; Harvey Topping (first appearance); Frank Topping (first appearance; villain)
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mickey - I just heard that your uncle Phil won a turkey at Clancy's!
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
strip reprints
The Band of Treason
Captain Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; spy
- Characters
- Captain Bruce Blackburn; Henry (villain, introduction); un-named "Band" members (villains, introduction for all)
[Queen of the Bat-Men]
Samar / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Samar; The Bat-Men (first appearance; villains; all die); Queen Nevar (first appearance; villain; death)
[Action in Guatemala]
Spin Shaw / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Witmer Williams (signed as Rex Smith)
- Inks
- Witmer Williams (signed as Rex Smith)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- aviation; adventure
- Characters
- Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pardon me, aren't you Vincent Palooza who used to go to school with me?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza
[Mission to the Spirit World]
Zero, Ghost Detective / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Zero; Mr. Tobias Finch (introduction); Mrs. Tobias Finch (introduction); Sylvia Finch (introduction); Madam Aura (a medium, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Zero's fellow mystic, Madam Aura, sends him into the spirit world after a young woman, where he uses his "ring of the moon" to affect the spirits under moonlight.
Indexer Notes
Script credit suggegsted by the Who's Who.
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sure, Butch -- you can have the day off!
- Genre
- humor
[Origin of the Ace of Space]
Ace of Space / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Henry Taylor (signed)
- Pencils
- Harry Campbell (signed)
- Inks
- Harry Campbell (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- The Ace of Space [Ace Egan] (introduction, origin); Jennings (Egan's butler, introduction); an alien (introduction, death); The Slogons (villains, introduction, all die)
- Synopsis
- Ace encounters a red and yellow alien spaceship while piloting his private plane, and is able to communicate with the being inside, who warns of an impending invasion by the Slogans. Before the creature dies, he bequeaths a power belt to Ace, which gives him great powers and which he uses to defeat the alien invasion force.
Indexer Notes
Writer credit confirmed by Jim Amash in the Quality Companion (Nopvember, 2011).
[The Hunting Trip]
Homer Doodle and Son / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Mr. Homer Doodle (first appearance); Mrs. Homer Doodle (first appearance); Bud Doodle (first appearance)
[Trouble on the Rubber Plantation]
Dusty Dane / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Dusty Dane; Wolf Hennick (first appearance; villain; death); the Mouse (first appearance; villain; death); Patricia Morley (first appearance)
[The Game with Stamford]
Rusty Ryan / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children; spy
- Characters
- Rusty Ryan; Chuck (introduction)
Indexer Notes
All Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
The Mighty Mite versus Muscletoe
Poison Ivy [Quality] / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Poison Ivy; Muscletoe (first appearance; villain); The Great Colosso (first appearance; a superhero)
[The Sinister Lighthouse]
Reynolds of the Mounted / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier; adventure; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP; Waxey Ginzo (first appearance; villain; death); Tito (first appearance; villain; death)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Doll Man -
1.
[The Deadly Toymaker]
Doll Man -
2.
[Mystery at the World's Fair]
Rance Keane -
3.
["Mickey - I just heard that your uncle Phil won a turkey at Clancy's!"]
Mickey Finn -
4.
The Band of Treason
Captain Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy -
5.
[Queen of the Bat-Men]
Samar -
6.
[Action in Guatemala]
Spin Shaw -
7.
["Pardon me, aren't you Vincent Palooza who used to go to school with me?"]
Lala Palooza -
8.
[Mission to the Spirit World]
Zero, Ghost Detective -
9.
["Sure, Butch -- you can have the day off!"]
Big Top -
10.
[Origin of the Ace of Space]
Ace of Space -
11.
[The Hunting Trip]
Homer Doodle and Son -
12.
The Curse of Quetzal
Perry Scott -
13.
[Trouble on the Rubber Plantation]
Dusty Dane -
14.
[The Game with Stamford]
Rusty Ryan -
15.
The Mighty Mite versus Muscletoe
Poison Ivy [Quality] -
16.
[The Sinister Lighthouse]
Reynolds of the Mounted
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