Feature Comics
#72
(October 1943)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-08-25
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Favorites, Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Gilbert Fox (editor); E. M. Arnold (general manager)
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. 4.
[no title indexed]
Doll Man / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Another adventure of the Doll Man
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Rusty Ryan (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Swing Sisson (inset); Lala Palooza (inset)
Crime Goes to College
Doll Man / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Prof. Whittlesey (first appearance, villain); Gats Grogan (first appearance, villain); Bruiser Bellows (first appearance, villain); unnamed crook (first appearance, villain)
[The Headhunter]
The Spider Widow / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayson]; Alice (introduction); Emory (villain, introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- Dianne's friends, Alice and Emory, are killed by headhunters in the jungles of South America. But the true villain nearly kills Dianne and then leaps out a window to his death.
Indexer Notes
This is the only Spider Widow story not drawn by Borth. Drafted into the military service, this last story was assigned to Palais.
Last appearance.
[The Mental Attitude]
Inferior Man / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Inferior Man [Courtney Fudd]; The Mental Attitude (villain, introduction); The Mental Attitude's wife (villain?; introduction)
- Synopsis
- The Inferior Man faces a sort of hypnotist who orders people to kill themselves right in front of Courtney (and who doesn't seem to have a problem with it).
Indexer Notes
Last appearance
[The Invisibility Formula]
Swing Sisson / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Swing Sisson; Dr. J. P. McNulty; Terry (introduction); un-named Japanese spies (villains, introduction for all)
- Synopsis
- Swing has a difficult time dealing with the infamous Dr. McNulty, who has invented an invisibility serum.
[Letter to Stalin]
Spin Shaw / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- aviation; adventure
- Characters
- Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Maj. Maria Soblesky (introduction); the Japanese (villains)
[The Hand of Rutatutakhmen]
Zero, Ghost Detective / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Zero; Prof. Wilcox (introduction); Rutatutakhmen (villain, a mummy, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Zero defeats the possessed mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh, Rutatutakhmen.
Indexer Notes
Last appearance.
Script credit suggested by the Who's Who
[Blimpy Goes to the Devil (Almost!)]
Blimpy / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Blimpy [Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain]; Blimpy's Devil (introduction); Blimpy's Angel (introduction); the Devil (villain, a facsimile thereof)
Indexer Notes
Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.
[Miss Siren]
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children; spy
- Characters
- Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Alababa; Pierpont Lee]; Louola (introduction); Louola's father (introduction); Miss Siren (villain, introduction); Gorbo (villain, introduction)
Indexer Notes
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["Another adventure of the Doll Man"]
Doll Man -
1.
Crime Goes to College
Doll Man -
2.
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn -
3.
[A Week in the Life]
Poison Ivy [Quality] -
4.
[The Headhunter]
The Spider Widow -
5.
[The Mental Attitude]
Inferior Man -
6.
[The Invisibility Formula]
Swing Sisson -
7.
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza -
8.
[Letter to Stalin]
Spin Shaw -
9.
[The Hand of Rutatutakhmen]
Zero, Ghost Detective -
10.
You Win by Losing
Perry Scott -
11.
[no title indexed]
Big Top -
12.
[Blimpy Goes to the Devil (Almost!)]
Blimpy -
13.
[Miss Siren]
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers
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