Feature Comics
#77
(April 1944)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Volume
- ?
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly except December and June
- On-sale Date
- 1944-02-23
- 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, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 2.
[no title indexed]
Doll Man / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Doll Man mightiest of mites conquers evil and cruelty!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Lala Palooza (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Blimpy [Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain] (inset); Swing Sisson (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Poison Ivy (inset); Perky (inset)
[no title indexed]
Doll Man / comic story / 13 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Where the overgrown hulks of size and strength may blunder...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Midge [Martha Roberts] (introduction as heroine); William Bramber (broker, death); Bramber's butler; Joe Bramber (Bramber's nephew); Mr. Spelvin (villain, Bramber family attorney); Sabina (villain, Joe's girl)
- Synopsis
- Secretly, both Darrel and Martha wish to partner up in the tiny mite's adventures, and, somehow, the simultaneous wishing unlocks a shared super-power which shrinks both of them. Both of them read a news article about three members of the Bramber family dying mysteriously in the garden of their ancestral home, and decide to investigate.
- Reprints
-
in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #93 ([September] 2014)
-
Indexer Notes
This is the first time Martha Roberts gains the power to shrink to tiny size, adopting the heroic name Midge. Later on, she will become Doll Girl.
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is the tightest town in the circuit...
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mickey has refused to give Uncle Phil any information...
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- strip reprints
[no title indexed]
Blimpy / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The winnah!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Blimpy [Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain]
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So far this week...
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
Swing Sisson / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The great annual Ice Carnival was to be full of surprises...
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Swing Sisson
[no title indexed]
Poison Ivy [Quality] / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A contest has been arranged...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Poison Ivy
[no title indexed]
Spin Shaw / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Captain Spin Shaw, crack Navy pilot, has been assigned...
- Genre
- aviation; adventure
- Characters
- Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]
[no title indexed]
Perky / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hear ye! Hear ye!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Perky
Sunken Treasure!!
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children; spy
- Characters
- Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Pierpont Lee; Alababa]; Captain Cooper (death); Miss Cooper; group of pirates (villains)
- Synopsis
- From a dying sea captain, Rusty gets half a map that shows the latitude and longitude of the Black Pirate Treasure, but not the location. Rusty has to beat a group of pirates to the captain's daughter who may be able to reveal the location.
- Reprints
- in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #93 ([September] 2014)
-
- Keywords
- Eastern Hotel; Howalla
Indexer Notes
Art is by Mort Leav, with his large hands, lively figures and a special crouching way of running, with thighs lifted high.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["The Doll Man mightiest of mites conquers evil and cruelty!"]
Doll Man -
1.
["Where the overgrown hulks of size and strength may blunder..."]
Doll Man -
2.
["This is the tightest town in the circuit..."]
Big Top -
3.
["Mickey has refused to give Uncle Phil any information..."]
Mickey Finn -
4.
["The winnah!"]
Blimpy -
5.
["So far this week..."]
Lala Palooza -
6.
["The great annual Ice Carnival was to be full of surprises..."]
Swing Sisson -
7.
["A contest has been arranged..."]
Poison Ivy [Quality] -
8.
["Captain Spin Shaw, crack Navy pilot, has been assigned..."]
Spin Shaw -
9.
The Captain Is a Beast
Perry Scott -
10.
["Hear ye! Hear ye!"]
Perky -
11.
Sunken Treasure!!
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers
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