Feature Comics
#59
(August 1942)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-06-24
- 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]
Mickey Finn / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gosh, Mickey.. after 10 weeks of shadow boxing, I didn't learn t'box, but my shadow did!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Mickey Finn; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Samar (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Fargo Kid (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Swing Sisson (inset); Reynolds of the Mounties (inset); Zero (inset); Poison Ivy (inset)
- Keywords
- shadow boxing
[The Human Manikins]
Doll Man / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- ? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (signed)
- Pencils
- Reed Crandall
- Inks
- Reed Crandall
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; De Swank (villain, introduction); Samson (villain, introduction); Von Frolica (villain, introduction); un-named Nazi spies (villains, introduction for all)
- Synopsis
- Martha is kidnapped by De Swank, who owns a department store in which he turns women into lifelike manikins with a serum he intends to sell to Fifth Columnists.
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When is your uncle Phil gonna start playing golf?
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
strip reprints
[The Caretaker's Ghost]
Zero, Ghost Detective / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Zero; Jim (introduction); Rick Williams (introduction); A caretaker's ghost (villain, introduction, death)
Indexer Notes
Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You and Duck-on-a-Rock better look for new jobs...
- Genre
- humor
[Jungle Storm]
Samar / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- John Charles (credited)
- Pencils
- Rafael Astarita
- Inks
- Rafael Astarita
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Samar; Frank (introduction); Jane (introduction); Bill (villain, introduction, reforms)
- Synopsis
- Samar comes upon a man and woman being attacked by a giant gorilla upon returning to civilization from a gem expedition and saves their lives. But treachery strikes Samar and he goes on the trail of Bill who has forcibly taken the girl. Samar saves both from an elephant stampede and they reunite with Frank and all is well.
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
John Charles, as used at Quality Comics, was a house name used for multiple writers. It is not the UK writer John Charles who started his career in the 1990s.
[The Great Ghost Herd]
Fargo Kid / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner]; The "Hooded Murderer" and his gang (first appearance; villains)
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When are you going to beat those rugs, Vincent?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza
[Jack Traxe's Leveraged Buyout]
Swing Sisson / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Swing Sisson; Jack Traxe (first appearance; villain); Butcher (first appearance; villain); Eddie (first appearance; villain)
[The Ghost Ship]
Reynolds of the Mounted / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier; adventure; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP; Flatfoot; A gang of spies (first appearance; villains)
[The Japanese Transformation Drug]
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]; Ellen Drew (introduction); an Army Intelligence agent (introduction); Man of a Thousand Faces (introduction, death); The Black Dragon Society (villains, some die); Hitasu (villain, introduction, death)
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
[no title indexed]
Homer Doodle and Son / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello folks--it's picnic time!
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
The Spider Widow / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Frank Borth (signed as Frank M. Borth)
- Pencils
- Frank Borth (signed as Frank M. Borth)
- Inks
- Frank Borth (signed as Frank M. Borth)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Death Steals the Show of the Great Darbun Circus!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayton]; Bob; J. P. Darbun (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Spider Widow investigates a series of mysterious but fatal accidents at the local circus, and discovers the owner, dressed as a clown, is responsible. It seems he owed his performers two years back wages, and, because he couldn't pay them off (and was going to lose ownership of the circus), he decided to murder the acts one at a time!
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Darbun Circus
Indexer Notes
The Who's Who verifies Borth as not only creator of this strip, but the writer and artist as well.
Last appearance of the "The Spider Widow" feature for a while; it will be replaced next issue by its own spinoff, "Spider Widow and the Raven". The "The Spider Widow" feature will return in issue #67.
[The General's Daughter]
Spin Shaw / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Witmer Williams (signed as Clark Williams)
- Inks
- Witmer Williams (signed as Clark Williams)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- aviation; adventure
- Characters
- Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Gen. T. F. Langer (introduction); Ellen Langer (introduction); the Japanese (villains)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Gosh, Mickey.. after 10 weeks of shadow boxing, I didn't learn t'box, but my shadow did!"]
Mickey Finn -
1.
[The Human Manikins]
Doll Man -
2.
["When is your uncle Phil gonna start playing golf?"]
Mickey Finn -
3.
[The Caretaker's Ghost]
Zero, Ghost Detective -
4.
["You and Duck-on-a-Rock better look for new jobs..."]
Big Top -
5.
[Jungle Storm]
Samar -
6.
[The Great Ghost Herd]
Fargo Kid -
7.
["When are you going to beat those rugs, Vincent?"]
Lala Palooza -
8.
[Jack Traxe's Leveraged Buyout]
Swing Sisson -
9.
[The Stepfather's Comeuppance]
Poison Ivy -
10.
[The Ghost Ship]
Reynolds of the Mounted -
11.
[The Japanese Transformation Drug]
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers -
12.
Out of the Depths
Perry Scott -
13.
["Hello folks--it's picnic time!"]
Homer Doodle and Son -
14.
["Death Steals the Show of the Great Darbun Circus!"]
The Spider Widow -
15.
[The General's Daughter]
Spin Shaw
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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