Feature Comics #90

(August 1945)

The Whispering Corpse (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script:

Joe Millard

Pencils:

Dan Zolnerowich

Inks:

Dan Zolnerowich ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Martha Roberts; Dr. Roberts; Whispering Sam

Synopsis:

Doll Man is turned grave-digger to defeat the Whispering Corpse.

Indexer Notes

Tilting figures with long upper body and awkward way of standing and walking, some wild eyes, and also broad shoulders and narrow head on stretched neck are all pointing to Zolneriwich. He is credited on both pencils and ink on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, but inking may vary.

["So! That's the way you spend your life..."] (Table of Contents: 2)

Blimpy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

Al Stahl (signed)

Pencils:

Al Stahl (signed)

Inks:

Al Stahl (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Blimpy

Song of Sorcery (Table of Contents: 3)

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;

Synopsis:

A music manuscript is found on a dead man and Swing and his band play it over, and are nearly killed by a fanatic.

["Berserk spinster slays sponging brother with shovel!"] (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script:

Bernard Dibble

Pencils:

Bernard Dibble

Inks:

Bernard Dibble

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor

["Perkypestius Goofykidia..."] (Table of Contents: 5)

Perky / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

Sid Lazarus

Pencils:

Sid Lazarus

Inks:

Sid Lazarus

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

fantasy-supernatural

Characters:

Perky

["This is one day that you should really regret..."] (Table of Contents: 6)

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:

Mickey Finn

Indexer Notes

strip reprints

Road to Empire (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

["Why, you poor deserted little child!"] (Table of Contents: 8)

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

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Poison Ivy

["Oooh, Captain Shaw!"] (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Quackenbush ?

Inks:

Bill Quackenbush ?; Irving Tirman ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

aviation

Characters:

Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]

Synopsis:

Spin Shaw's "Wildcat" fighter plane is shot down over the Pacific.

Indexer Notes

Quackenbush is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and short figures and some narrow heads point to him, but some jaws behind the ear point to Tirman.

["The fun in that fireman act is too forced!"] (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Script:

Bernard Dibble

Pencils:

Bernard Dibble

Inks:

Bernard Dibble

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

humor

["Pieces of eight--nine--ten--you're out!"] (Table of Contents: 11)

Rusty Ryan And The Boyville Brigadiers / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Quackenbush

Inks:

Bill Quackenbush

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

adventure; children; spy

Characters:

Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Pierpont Lee; Alabama]; Queen of Peral Island; Bonnie (villain, pirate lady)

Synopsis:

Rusty Ryan joins the South Sea Pirates.

Indexer Notes

Some short figures, and special hands, lines inside the ears and narrow heads in sideview point to Quackenbush, who has several signed stories in this feature, #83.