Feature Comics
#26
(November 1939)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Favorites Inc.
- Editing
- Ed Cronin
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
![Cover Thumbnail for Feature Comics (1939 series) #26 [Green]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/937/w100/937554.jpg?-1390086135425337049)
Charity Base Ball Game
Joe Palooka / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Ham Fisher
- Pencils
- Mo Leff (ghost for Ham Fisher)
- Inks
- Mo Leff (ghost for Ham Fisher)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- sports
Indexer Notes
strip reprints McNaught Syndicate
[no title indexed]
Off the Record / cartoon / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How do you spell resignation, Joe?
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Panel reprints: Register and Tribune Syndicate.
[no title indexed]
Jane Arden / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In Paris, Jane is to stage a fake robbery
- Genre
- drama; adventure
- Keywords
- soap opera
Indexer Notes
strip reprints Register and Tribune Syndicate
[The Mutiny of Michael Severish]
Captain Fortune / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- historical; adventure
- Characters
- Captain Fortune [Tyrone Fortune]; Michael Severish (villain; death)
[Episode 26]
Big Top / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh Red, it's awful -- this paper says -- Plane carrying cowboy star, Hal Thomspn is missing
- Genre
- adventure; humor
Indexer Notes
Strip reprints. Frank J. Markey Syndicate.
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Lank Leonard
- Pencils
- Lank Leonard; Morris Weiss
- Inks
- Lank Leonard; Morris Weiss
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Uncle Phil's been reading a lot about astrology lately
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
strip reprints McNaught Syndicate
Satisfied
The Bungle Family / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; domestic
Indexer Notes
strip reprints
[no title indexed]
Ned Brant / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ol way to crack the line, bludgeon!
- Genre
- sports
Indexer Notes
strip reprints- Register and Tribune Syndicate
[no title indexed]
Rube Goldberg's Side Show / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our special invention: a simple way to feed the cat when you are away
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
strip reprints. Register and Tribune Syndicate
[Framed for Robbery]
The Clock / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- George Brenner (signed as Geo E. Brenner)
- Pencils
- George Brenner (signed as Geo E. Brenner)
- Inks
- George Brenner (signed as Geo E. Brenner)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; Fingers Holts (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- When Fingers Holts frames the Clock for his own crimes, and the police show up to arrest the Clock, our hero lays a trap for Holts and hypnotizes him into confessing to his crimes.
[no title indexed]
They're Still Talking / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boom!
- Genre
- sports; non-fiction
Indexer Notes
strip reprints: Register and Tribune Syndicate
[no title indexed]
Dixie Dugan / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We're all unpacked, Ma!
- Genre
- drama; humor
Indexer Notes
strip reprints McNaught Syndicate
[Dirk Purdue, the Badman]
Rance Keane / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Smith (Will Arthur)
- Inks
- Bill Smith
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- western-frontier; adventure
- Characters
- Rance Keane; Dirk Purdue (first appearance; villain)
[no title indexed]
Toddy / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Say -- mebbe we'll have a cold, hard winter!
- Genre
- humor; children
Indexer Notes
strip reprints:McNaught Syndicate
[no title indexed]
Mortimer Mum / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
strip reprints:McNaught Syndicate
[Red Hawk and the Rifles]
Reynolds of the Mounted / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier; adventure; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Red Hawk (first appearance; villain); Paul Sanders (first appearance; villain)
[Episode 26]
Slim and Tubby / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- No sir!! You aren't managing Benton, Cap! scram!!
- Genre
- western-frontier; adventure; aviation
Indexer Notes
strip reprints: Register and Tribune Syndicate: Bullet Benton dailies
[no title indexed]
Off the Record / cartoon / 0.67 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tacks?
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
strip reprints: Register and Tribune Syndicate
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm sure it's a burglar!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza; Vincent
[no title indexed]
Rube Goldberg's Side Show / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- An easy way to control a hot and cold shower bath
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
strip reprints. Register and Tribune Syndicate
[no title indexed]
Off Side / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Aw -- baseball ain't what it was in the old days!
- Genre
- humor; sports
- Reprints
- strip reprints
Indexer Notes
Final appearance in Feature Comics and in a Quality publication. Off Side appears next in a comic book in Big Shot Comics (Columbia, 1940 Series) #1 (May 1940).
[The Hedrin Gold Mine Mystery: Part 2]
Charlie Chan / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Charlie Chan
Indexer Notes
strip reprints: McNaught Syndicate
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["George! You've made a touchdown ~ but you forgot the ball!"]
The Bungle Family -
1.
Charity Base Ball Game
Joe Palooka -
2.
["How do you spell resignation, Joe?"]
Off the Record -
3.
["In Paris, Jane is to stage a fake robbery"]
Jane Arden -
4.
[The Mutiny of Michael Severish]
Captain Fortune -
5.
[Episode 26]
Big Top -
6.
["Uncle Phil's been reading a lot about astrology lately"]
Mickey Finn -
7.
Satisfied
The Bungle Family -
8.
["Ol way to crack the line, bludgeon!"]
Ned Brant -
9.
["Our special invention: a simple way to feed the cat when you are away"]
Rube Goldberg's Side Show -
10.
[Framed for Robbery]
The Clock -
11.
["Boom!"]
They're Still Talking -
12.
["We're all unpacked, Ma!"]
Dixie Dugan -
13.
[Dirk Purdue, the Badman]
Rance Keane -
14.
["Say -- mebbe we'll have a cold, hard winter!"]
Toddy -
15.
[no title indexed]
Mortimer Mum -
16.
[Red Hawk and the Rifles]
Reynolds of the Mounted -
17.
[Episode 26]
Slim and Tubby -
18.
Code of the Beasts: Part 1
-
19.
["Tacks?"]
Off the Record -
20.
["I'm sure it's a burglar!"]
Lala Palooza -
21.
["An easy way to control a hot and cold shower bath"]
Rube Goldberg's Side Show -
22.
["Aw -- baseball ain't what it was in the old days!"]
Off Side -
23.
[The Hedrin Gold Mine Mystery: Part 2]
Charlie Chan
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- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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