Feature Comics
#75
(February 1944)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly except December and June
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Favorites, Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Gill Fox
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Go ahead, Lala... Throw th' dirt in[...]
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza; Vincent Paooza; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Blimpy [ aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain] (inset); Poison Ivy (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset)
Indexer Notes
Vincent Palooza's birth year given as 1907 on tombstone.
The Girl You Couldn't Trust
Doll Man / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man; Maude Van Austin (first appearance); Bill Van Austin (first appearance); Jeff Gordon (first appearance); Pacardo (first appearance; villain); Yutz and his gang (first appearance; villains)
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Lank Leonard (signed)
- Pencils
- Lank Leonard (signed)
- Inks
- Lank Leonard (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Philip; Michael
Indexer Notes
strip reprints
Enemy That Is Neither Beast nor Man
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children; spy
- Characters
- Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Alababa; Pierpont Lee]; The Missing Link (villain, introduction, death); Captain Devlin (villain, introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- Rusty saves two men from a castaway boat which is also carrying a caged, unknown beast.
Indexer Notes
Art is by Mort Leav, with his large hands, lively figures and a special crouching way of running, with thighs lifted high.
[The Ghost of the Clover Club]
Swing Sisson / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Vern Henkel (signed as Vernon Henkel)
- Pencils
- Vern Henkel (signed as Vernon Henkel)
- Inks
- Vern Henkel (signed as Vernon Henkel)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Swing Sisson; Bonnie Baxter; Toby; Mason (first appearance; Clover Club owner); Jack Torrence (first appearance; villain; a phony ghost (first appearance; villain)
- Synopsis
- A man shot and killed in the Clover Club swears he will return to have his vengeance.
[Introducing Perky]
Perky / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Perky (first appearance; origin); Prof. Zomby (first appearance); Prince Feefi (first appearance); Prince Fofum (first appearance); King Lug (first appearance)
[Submarine Assignment]
Spin Shaw / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- aviation; adventure
- Characters
- Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Lt. Bill Perry (first appearance); The Japanese (villains)
- Synopsis
- Spin is sent to recover a secret sight from a downed plane.
Indexer Notes
Keller is credited on this feature for 1944, and this story is one he may have drawn. Some grinning faces and the hawk nosed captain point to him, but not certain.
The Case of the Museum Crooks
Blimpy / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony DiPreta (signed)
- Inks
- Tony DiPreta (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Blimpy [aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain]; Nervous Harry (villain, introduction)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Go ahead, Lala... Throw th' dirt in[...]"]
Lala Palooza -
1.
The Girl You Couldn't Trust
Doll Man -
2.
[no title indexed]
Big Top -
3.
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn -
4.
Enemy That Is Neither Beast nor Man
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers -
5.
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza -
6.
[The Ghost of the Clover Club]
Swing Sisson -
7.
[Introducing Perky]
Perky -
8.
The Story of a Ship
Perry Scott -
9.
[War Souvenir]
Poison Ivy [Quality] -
10.
[Submarine Assignment]
Spin Shaw -
11.
The Case of the Museum Crooks
Blimpy
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