Feature Comics
#78
(May 1944)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly except December and June
- On-sale Date
- 1944-03-29
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Favorites Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Gwen Hansen (editor)
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.
Fear
Doll Man / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man; John Raymond (first appearance); Martha Braun Raymond (first appearance); The Knife (first appearance, villain, death); Mike Sarto (first appearance, villain, death)
Swing Sisson on the Swing Shift
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; Max (first appearance, villain)
- Synopsis
- Sagotage in the bomber factory, and a good aluminum man dead.
[Action at the Auction]
Blimpy / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony DiPreta (signed)
- Inks
- Tony DiPreta (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Blimpy [Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brien]; Bob Baker (introduction); Gloria Gay (introduction); Van Filcher (villain, introduction); Gunner (villain, introduction); Max (villain, introduction)
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Confidentially, Vincent, if you were the last man on earth...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Vincent Palooza; Widow Pipwillie
- Synopsis
- Turned down by the Widow Pipwillie, Vincent plans to post her photo in his room to inspire him, but gets distracted by some pin-up magazines.
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As if Vincent wasn't enough trouble already...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza; Vincent Palooza; doctor
- Synopsis
- Vincent contracts kleptomania.
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I hear that Mlle. Fifi, the famous skater, practices on the pond here every afternoon!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Vincent Palooza; Mlle. Fifi
- Synopsis
- A figure skater won't agree to let Vincent take her photo so he can sell it. When he snaps an unflattering candid of her, she's forced to pay him.
[San Francisco Mission]
Spin Shaw / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- aviation; adventure
- Characters
- Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Commander Newson (first appearance); The Japanese (villains)
- Synopsis
- Spin and his squadron capture a Japanese carrier.
Indexer Notes
Heads in 3/4 backview with the jawbone going back behind the ear is peculiar. This can be found in his credited "Mike Gibbs Guerilla" story in Adventure Comics #88, and also in his Lt. Hercules stories in Green Lama Comics. Very few here, so uncertain.
[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
Indexer Notes
strip reprints
The Dum-Dum Murders
Perry Scott / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Hyatt ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Perry Scott; Kuglat the Deerslayer
[The Home of the Winds]
Perky / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Perky; Mrs. Wind (first appearance); East Wind (first appearance); North Wind (first appearance); South Wind (first appearance); West Wind (first appearance)
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Them young apes crave love just like people, boss...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Butch; Boss Jeff Bangs
- Synopsis
- Butch is assigned to babysit a young circus ape.
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Butch, that new act of yours is a wow!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Butch; Boss Jeff Bangs
- Synopsis
- Boss Bangs promises not to sock, slam, toss things or boot Butch in the pants when he's angry. He didn't promise not to butt Butch, though.
[Captured by the Japanese Underground]
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children; spy
- Characters
- Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Pierpont Lee; Alababa]; Mauki (villain, introduction); Kajanka (villain, introduction); unnamed girl (villain, introduction); other Japanese spies (villains, introduction for all)
- Synopsis
- Rusty is to be taken prisoner and presented as a slave to the Japanese emperor.
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.
Fear
Doll Man -
1.
Fear
Doll Man -
2.
Swing Sisson on the Swing Shift
Swing Sisson -
3.
[Action at the Auction]
Blimpy -
4.
["Confidentially, Vincent, if you were the last man on earth..."]
Lala Palooza -
5.
["As if Vincent wasn't enough trouble already..."]
Lala Palooza -
6.
["I hear that Mlle. Fifi, the famous skater, practices on the pond here every afternoon!"]
Lala Palooza -
7.
[1000 Miles an Hour]
Poison Ivy -
8.
[San Francisco Mission]
Spin Shaw -
9.
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn -
10.
The Dum-Dum Murders
Perry Scott -
11.
[The Home of the Winds]
Perky -
12.
["Them young apes crave love just like people, boss..."]
Big Top -
13.
["Butch, that new act of yours is a wow!"]
Big Top -
14.
[Captured by the Japanese Underground]
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers
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