Feature Comics #75

(February 1944)

The Girl You Couldn't Trust (Table of Contents: 1)

Doll Man / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Alex Kotzky

Inks:

John Cassone

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; 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] (Table of Contents: 2)

Big Top / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Bernard Dibble

Pencils:

Bernard Dibble

Inks:

Bernard Dibble

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Mickey Finn / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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 (Table of Contents: 4)

Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mort Leav

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

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, and also a cage with an unknown beast.

Indexer Notes

Originally credited to Ed Dobrotka, but this is Mort Leav, with his large hands, lively figures and a special crouching way of running, with thighs lifted high. Dobrotka samples from Superman in Action Comics #69 have no resemblance to these Rusty Ryan stories. Both artists are credited on this feature, but all credited to Dobrotka have to be by Mort Leav.

The Who's Who does indicate that Dobrotka drew this feature in 1944.

The Who's Who indicates that Leav did pencils only on this feature.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Lala Palooza / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script:

Bernard Dibble

Pencils:

Bernard Dibble

Inks:

Bernard Dibble

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor

[The Ghost of the Clover Club] (Table of Contents: 6)

Swing Sisson / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Vernon Henkel (signed)

Pencils:

Vernon Henkel (signed)

Inks:

Vernon Henkel (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor; detective-mystery

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] (Table of Contents: 7)

Perky / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Sid Lazarus

Pencils:

Sid Lazarus

Inks:

Sid Lazarus

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

fantasy-supernatural

Characters:

Perky (first appearance; origin); Prof. Zomby (first appearance); Prince Feefi (first appearance); Prince Fofum (first appearance); King Lug (first appearance)

The Story of a Ship (Table of Contents: 8)

Perry Scott / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Robert M. Hyatt?

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Perry Scott

[War Souvenir] (Table of Contents: 9)

Poison Ivy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Gill Fox (signed)

Pencils:

Gill Fox (signed)

Inks:

Gill Fox (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Poison Ivy

[Submarine Assignment] (Table of Contents: 10)

Spin Shaw / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Keller ?

Inks:

Jack Keller ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

aviation

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 (Table of Contents: 11)

Blimpy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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)