Feature Comics
#42
(March 1941)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Favorites, Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Ed Cronin
[no title indexed]
Doll Man / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Lala Palooza (inset); Rance Keane (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Samar (inset)
[The Treasure of the Black Albatross]
Doll Man / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Jane (first appearance); Jane's father (first appearance; death); Captain Rocco (first appearance; villain)
[The Treasure Hunt: Part 3]
Rance Keane / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier; adventure
- Characters
- Rance Keane; Harvey Topping; Simon (first appearance; death); Amyas (first appearance; death)
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Where to, Butch?
- Genre
- humor
Introducing USA
USA, the Spirit of Old Glory / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
- Inks
- Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- USA (introduction, origin); Betsy Ross (flashback); Franklin D. Roosevelt; Otto Fluger (villain, introduction, death); Fluger's un-named spies (villains, introduction for all, all die); Adolf Hitler (villain)
- Synopsis
- As a young girl in 1777 and around to witness Besty Ross creating the new American flag. She carried some threads of that flag in her locket, and, afterwards, grew very ill and passed away, being buried with that locket. In 1941, the locket was unearthed and when opened, USA was born. With her magic flag and torch of liberty, she showed European loyalists the errors of their ways.
Indexer Notes
USA was created by Maurice Gutwirth and was Quality's second lady heroine. She was clearly inspired by the early American icon called Miss Columbia, and predated Wonder Woman by about six months.
[Zero's Future Incarnation]
Zero, Ghost Detective / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Zero; Dr. Potsam (introduction); Lanya (introduction); Loro (villain, introduction); Mogur (villain, introduction); un-named Martians (villains, introduction for all)
Indexer Notes
Script credit suggeseted by the Who's Who.
[The Slaver of Bleak Isle]
Dusty Dane / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Dusty Dane; Ahmeer (first appearance; a dancing girl); Abdul Kalat (first appearance; villain); Singh (first appearance; villain)
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On your way home, Vincent, stop and get me a bottle of vanilla!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza
Ghosts Don't Use Guns
Captain Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; spy
- Characters
- Capt. Bruce Blackburn; The Prussorians (first appearance; villains)
[The Raid on Bulobo]
Samar / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Samar; Jeho (first appearance); The Nazis (villains)
[Origin of Reynolds of the Mounted]
Reynolds of the Mounted / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier; adventure; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP (origin in flashback); The Old Timer (first apperaance); Tom Reynolds (first appearance; flashback; death; Reynolds's brother); Pinky Reynolds (first appearance; Reynold's brother); Jeff Bandro (first appearance; villain; flashback)
Epic in Bronze
Perry Scott / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Hyatt (signed as Robert M. Hyatt)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Perry Scott
[Trapping the Trappers]
Rusty Ryan / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children; spy
- Characters
- Rusty Ryan; Moose (villain, a hunter); Joe (villain, a hunter, villain)
Indexer Notes
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I ain't seen your uncle Phil for a week, Mickey, is he sick?
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
strip reprints
[Bar Sinister]
Spin Shaw / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- aviation; adventure
- Characters
- Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; A gang of spies (first appearance; villains)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Doll Man -
1.
[The Treasure of the Black Albatross]
Doll Man -
2.
[The Treasure Hunt: Part 3]
Rance Keane -
3.
["Where to, Butch?"]
Big Top -
4.
Introducing USA
USA, the Spirit of Old Glory -
5.
[Zero's Future Incarnation]
Zero, Ghost Detective -
6.
[The Time Machine]
Poison Ivy [Quality] -
7.
[The Slaver of Bleak Isle]
Dusty Dane -
8.
["On your way home, Vincent, stop and get me a bottle of vanilla!"]
Lala Palooza -
9.
Ghosts Don't Use Guns
Captain Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy -
10.
[The Raid on Bulobo]
Samar -
11.
[Origin of Reynolds of the Mounted]
Reynolds of the Mounted -
12.
Epic in Bronze
Perry Scott -
13.
[The Sled]
Homer Doodle and Son -
14.
[Trapping the Trappers]
Rusty Ryan -
15.
["I ain't seen your uncle Phil for a week, Mickey, is he sick?"]
Mickey Finn -
16.
[Bar Sinister]
Spin Shaw
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