Feature Comics
#44
(May 1941)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-03-26
- 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, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 2.
[no title indexed]
Doll Man / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Spin Shaw (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Samar (inset); Zero (inset); Poison Ivy (inset); Dusty Dane (inset); Rance Keane (inset); Reynolds of the Mounted (inset); Bruce Blackburn (inset); Big Top (inset); Mickey Finn (inset)
[Trouble on the Twentieth Century Limited]
Doll Man / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Dr. Roberts; Schultz (villain, introduction); spies [Heinrich; others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
- Synopsis
- Darrel and Dr. Roberts speed after a train, attempting to catch up with a foreign spy who has stolen a valuable formula for making poison gas. Doll Man catches up to him only to lose the agent afterwards, but the crafty crime fighter sets a trap to catch all those involved.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Somebody's swiped m' dough!
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
-
in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #101 (2016) [p. 1 only]
-
[The Mystery Schooner]
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; Nazi spies (first appearance; villains)
[Don't Fear the Reaper]
Zero, Ghost Detective / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Zero; un-named old man (introduction, death); old man's son (introduction); The Reaper [Death] (villain, introduction)
Indexer Notes
In this story, Zero performs an incantation by drawing a circular pattern -- or zero -- that transports him into the past and which also summons ghosts.
Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.
King of the Barrens
Reynolds of the Mounted / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier; adventure; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP; Red Deer (first appearance); Rawson (first appearance; villain); Canua (first appearance; villain)
[The Obandi War Dance]
Samar / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Samar; The Obandi tribe (first appearance); Julie (first appearance); Julie's father (first appearance); Several bad guys (first appearance; villains)
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Here's the only picture we have of Vincent...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza
- Reprints
- in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #101 (2016) [p. 1 only]
-
Indexer Notes
Artist correction from Joe (who did not exist) to John Devlin made by Craig Delich 2013-4-6.
Fear, Inc.
Captain Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; spy
- Characters
- Capt. Bruce Blackburn; Mrs. Blake (first appearance); Herr Silber and his gang (first appearnce; villains; death)
[The Draftsman's Treason]
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; unnamed U.S. Secretary of War (introduction); Linden (villain, government draftsman, introduction); Unger (villain, introduction); unnamed spies (villains, introduction for all)
- Synopsis
- A corrupt government draftsman attempts to steal the plans of U.S. defenses, but USA throws a monkey wrench into that plan.
- Reprints
[The Underwater Counterfeiters]
Rusty Ryan / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children; spy
- Characters
- Rusty Ryan; Rickie (villain, introduction); Rickie's gang (villains, introduction for all)
Indexer Notes
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Last appearance of the "Rusty Ryan" feature for a while; it will be replaced next issue by its own spinoff, "Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers". The "Rusty Ryan" feature will return in issue #101.
[The Super Conscientious Objector]
Poison Ivy / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Poison Ivy; a super guy (first appearance)
[The Map of Sinbad]
Dusty Dane / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Dusty Dane; Bulldog Teeters (first appearance; villain; death)
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gee, Mickey... I'm glad this day's work is over... I'm tired!
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
strip reprints
[The Mutineers]
Spin Shaw / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- aviation; adventure
- Characters
- Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Doll Man -
1.
[Trouble on the Twentieth Century Limited]
Doll Man -
2.
["Somebody's swiped m' dough!"]
Big Top -
3.
[The Mystery Schooner]
Rance Keane -
4.
[Don't Fear the Reaper]
Zero, Ghost Detective -
5.
King of the Barrens
Reynolds of the Mounted -
6.
[Magic Chalk]
Homer Doodle and Son -
7.
[The Obandi War Dance]
Samar -
8.
["Here's the only picture we have of Vincent..."]
Lala Palooza -
9.
Fear, Inc.
Captain Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy -
10.
[The Draftsman's Treason]
USA, the Spirit of Old Glory -
11.
[The Underwater Counterfeiters]
Rusty Ryan -
12.
Water for the King
Perry Scott -
13.
[The Super Conscientious Objector]
Poison Ivy -
14.
[The Map of Sinbad]
Dusty Dane -
15.
["Gee, Mickey... I'm glad this day's work is over... I'm tired!"]
Mickey Finn -
16.
[The Mutineers]
Spin Shaw
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Daniel Martinez
- Clint Maxwell
- Tony R. Rose
- Dick Sabo
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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