Feature Comics #83

(November 1944)

Mechanical Man (Table of Contents: 1)

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

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.

["Our menagerie needs a shot in the arm..."] (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

["Gee, Tom..."] (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; Florrie; Tom

Reprints:

• from newspaper strips (?)

Clover Club (Table of Contents: 4)

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; Mr. Mason

Synopsis:

Swing and his friends are kidnapped by an ambulance.

["Dat kid Poison Ivy is getting to be a nuisance!"] (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script:

Gill Fox

Pencils:

Gill Fox

Inks:

Gill Fox

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Poison Ivy

["That rich widow has never seen me with my hat off..."] (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script:

Bernard Dibble

Pencils:

Bernard Dibble

Inks:

Bernard Dibble

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor

Reprints:

• from newspaper strips (?)

["Flash! ...U.S. Naval ace faces court-martial..."] (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script:

?

Pencils:

Irving Tirman ?; Bill Quackenbush ?

Inks:

Irving Tirman ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

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.

["It's no dream, folks!"] (Table of Contents: 8)

Blimpy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Tony DiPreta

Inks:

Tony DiPreta

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

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 (Table of Contents: 9)

Perky / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Sid Lazarus

Pencils:

Sid Lazarus

Inks:

Sid Lazarus

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

fantasy-supernatural

Characters:

Perky

["There's always something new in the South Seas!"] (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Quackenbush (signed)

Inks:

Bill Quackenbush (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

adventure; children; spy

Characters:

Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Pierpont Lee; Alabama]

Synopsis:

Rusty and his friends fight dinosaurs on a Pacific island.