Feature Comics
#83
(November 1944)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Volume
- ?
- 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
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- standard Golden Age US
- Paper Stock
- glossy cover; newsprint interior
- Binding
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- was on-going series
Issue Notes
Correct sequence order, titles, and some character information from Error Report #2882, by Lou Mougin.
Mechanical Man
The Doll Man / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Al Bryant (signed)
- Inks
- Al Bryant (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Butch (from the feature "Big Top") (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Swing Sisson (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Blimpy [aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain] (inset); Perky (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Poison Ivy (inset)
Mechanical Man
Doll Man / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dan Zolnerowich ?
- Inks
- Dan Zolnerowich ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; The Mechanical Man (villain, introduction, only appearance, a robot); Professor Rudio (villain, introduction, only appearance)
- Synopsis
- The diminutive Professor Rudio tricks Doll Man into submitting to tests to unlock the secrets of his power, and the mighty mite finds himself trapped. He later learns that the professor was merely distracting Doll Man from his true invention: The Mechanical Man, a robot which is used to rob the Cosmopolitan Museum of rare art objects.
Indexer Notes
Originally credited "Al Bryant ?", but walking figures, a gaping face and broad shoulders with stretched neck look more like Zolnerowich, but uncertain.
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Bernard Dibble
- Pencils
- Bernard Dibble
- Inks
- Bernard Dibble
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our menagerie needs a shot in the arm...
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Lank Leonard (signed)
- Pencils
- Lank Leonard (signed)
- Inks
- Lank Leonard (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gee, Tom...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Philip; Florrie; Tom
- Reprints
- from newspaper strips (?)
Clover Club
Swing Sisson / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Vernon Henkel (signed)
- Pencils
- Vernon Henkel (signed)
- Inks
- Vernon Henkel (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Swing Sisson; Bonnie Baxter; Toby; Mr. Mason
- Synopsis
- Swing and his friends are kidnapped by an ambulance.
[no title indexed]
Poison Ivy / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Gill Fox
- Pencils
- Gill Fox
- Inks
- Gill Fox
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dat kid Poison Ivy is getting to be a nuisance!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Poison Ivy
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Bernard Dibble
- Pencils
- Bernard Dibble
- Inks
- Bernard Dibble
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That rich widow has never seen me with my hat off...
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- from newspaper strips (?)
[no title indexed]
Spin Shaw / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Irving Tirman ?; Bill Quackenbush ?
- Inks
- Irving Tirman ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Flash! ...U.S. Naval ace faces court-martial...
- Genre
- aviation
- Characters
- Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]
- Synopsis
- Spin Shaw is found guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
Indexer Notes
Some heads in 3/4 backview with the jawbone going back behind the ear is peculiar, as on page 3 point to Tirman, but some short figures look like Quackenbush.
[no title indexed]
Blimpy / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony DiPreta
- Inks
- Tony DiPreta
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's no dream, folks!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Blimpy [aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain]
Indexer Notes
DiPreta script credit removed by Craig Delich. DiPreta did very little writing in his career that is documented and it is very unlikely that he wrote this feature.
Kitchen Boy Wanted
Perky / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Sid Lazarus
- Pencils
- Sid Lazarus
- Inks
- Sid Lazarus
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Perky
[no title indexed]
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Quackenbush (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Quackenbush (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's always something new in the South Seas!
- Genre
- adventure; children; spy
- Characters
- Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Pierpont Lee; Alababa]
- Synopsis
- Rusty and his friends fight dinosaurs on a Pacific island.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Mechanical Man
The Doll Man -
1.
Mechanical Man
Doll Man -
2.
["Our menagerie needs a shot in the arm..."]
Big Top -
3.
["Gee, Tom..."]
Mickey Finn -
4.
Clover Club
Swing Sisson -
5.
["Dat kid Poison Ivy is getting to be a nuisance!"]
Poison Ivy -
6.
["That rich widow has never seen me with my hat off..."]
Lala Palooza -
7.
["Flash! ...U.S. Naval ace faces court-martial..."]
Spin Shaw -
8.
["It's no dream, folks!"]
Blimpy -
9.
Kitchen Boy Wanted
Perky -
10.
["There's always something new in the South Seas!"]
Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers
This issue was most recently modified by:
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- Donald Dale Milne
- Jim Van Dore
- Craig Delich
- Joey Beretta
- Steinar Ådland
- Gregory Fischer
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Bob Klein
- Lou Mougin
- Matthew Torrance
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