Feature Comics
#57
(June 1942)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-04-24
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Favorites Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Gill Fox
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2.
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Never mind the next adagio step, Lala...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza; Vincent; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Samar (inset)
Indexer Notes
Artist correction from Joe Devlin (who did not exist) to John Devlin made by Craig Delich 2013-4-6.
[The Japanese Doll Man]
Doll Man / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- ? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (credited)
- Pencils
- Reed Crandall
- Inks
- Reed Crandall
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; a Japanese "Doll Man" (villain, introduction, death); Agent N (villain, introduction, death); Dr. Hoto (villain, introduction); the Japanese (villains)
- Synopsis
- The Japanese force their own scientist, Dr. Hoto, to reproduce the Doll Man's shrinking serum, and, after several failures, he succeeds in shrinking a wrestler, whose strength was increased, but mind was destroyed. Doll Man tricks his foe into a cannon, shooting him to the sharks!
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Writer credit revised from Bernard Dibble to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. Dibble did not write this strip according to the Who's Who.
[The Ghost of Al Margotti]
Zero, Ghost Detective / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Zero; Julie (introduction); Xavier Jones (chemist, introduction); Al Margotti (villain, a ghost, introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- Zero meets a chemist who has invented a "ghost disintegrator".
Indexer Notes
Toni Blum is the only person identified by the Who's Who as the writer for this feature from 1940-43.
[The Origin of the Spider Widow]
The Spider Widow / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Frank Borth (signed)
- Pencils
- Frank Borth (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Borth (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayton] (introduction, origin); Bob Ableson (friend of Dianne's, introduction); Jake Lardo (villain, introduction); Lardo's gang (villains, introduction for all); Hetzernoff (villain, introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- A pair of mobsters visit Dianne's home, needing some gasoline for their getaway car. Dianne then donned an old green rubber mask, gathered some of her gardener's pet spiders, and hid inside the crook's trunk. When they arrived at the criminal's lair, she first learned that Lardo was sympathetic to Hitler, then scared his men with black widow spiders, over-coming all of them for the Police to round up.
Indexer Notes
The Who's Who indicates Borth as not only creator of this strip, but the writer and artist as well.
[The Eastern Gangster Invasion]
Fargo Kid / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Alex Koda (signed as Alexander Koda)
- Inks
- Alex Koda (signed as Alexander Koda)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; western-frontier
- Characters
- The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner]
Indexer Notes
Signed in the last panel.
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza
Indexer Notes
Writer credit revised from Bernard Dibble to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. Dibble did not write this strip according to the Who's Who.
[Mike Yemon's Protection Racket]
Swing Sisson / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Swing Sisson; Mike Yemon and his gang (first appearance; villains)
[Samar Vs. the Gorilla]
Samar / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Samar; Otto (villain); another spy (villain)
[The Black Dragon Society]
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children; spy
- Characters
- Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty; Moi Yutong (introduction)]; The Black Dragon Society [a Moi Yutong impostor; others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
- Synopsis
- Rusty and the Boyville Brigadiers decide to challenge the Black Dragon Society, and, to this end, accept a young Chinese woman, Moi Yutong, into their ranks. Soon after, she was kidnapped in front of their eyes, and it took some gunplay and rough stuff to rescue her.
Indexer Notes
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
[no title indexed]
Richards of the Mounties / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Into the Giant Redwood Forest of the Northwest...
- Genre
- adventure
[no title indexed]
Spin Shaw / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Witmer Williams (signed as Clark Williams)
- Inks
- Witmer Williams (signed as Clark Williams)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Nothing in the Blue Sky or the Open Sea...
- Genre
- adventure; aviation
- Characters
- Spin Shaw
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Never mind the next adagio step, Lala..."]
Lala Palooza -
1.
[The Japanese Doll Man]
Doll Man -
2.
[no title indexed]
Big Top -
3.
[The Ghost of Al Margotti]
Zero, Ghost Detective -
4.
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn -
5.
[The Origin of the Spider Widow]
The Spider Widow -
6.
[The Eastern Gangster Invasion]
Fargo Kid -
7.
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza -
8.
[Mike Yemon's Protection Racket]
Swing Sisson -
9.
[The Self-Stranglers]
Poison Ivy -
10.
[Samar Vs. the Gorilla]
Samar -
11.
[The Black Dragon Society]
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers -
12.
Bloom's Death
Perry Scott -
13.
[no title indexed]
Homer Doodle and Son -
14.
["Into the Giant Redwood Forest of the Northwest..."]
Richards of the Mounties -
15.
["Nothing in the Blue Sky or the Open Sea..."]
Spin Shaw
This issue was modified by, among others
- Henry Andrews
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Daniel Martinez
- Clint Maxwell
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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