Feature Comics
#117
(December 1947)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Volume
- ?
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Favorites Inc.
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Gwen Hansen
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
in Un Faux Livre (Delcourt, 2017 series) #[nn] (2017) [page 2]
-
[Polka Dot on the Spot!]
Doll Man / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Polka Dot [James Lord] (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Doll Man is seeing spots before his eyes as he tries to cope with a department store owner clad head-to-toe in a dotted suit.
- Reprints
-
in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #48 ([June] 2004)
-
Indexer Notes
Story title from the cover.
Woolfolk credit by Martin O'Hearn.
Art identification taken from the reprint (formerly credited to "Bill Ward ?").
[The Bedlam St. Dilemma]
Officer Shenanigan / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Officer Shenanigan
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Maybe I'm an awful cad, and I hate to do this, but---
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Vincent Palooza; Hortensia Smigly; McPutty
- Synopsis
- Vince breaks his engagement to Hortensia because he thinks she's lost her fortune. When he learns he was mistaken, he tries to make up with her.
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Poor Vince...his busted love affair with that widow seems to have gotten him down!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza; Vicent Palooza
- Synopsis
- Vincent plans to "pine away" with a broken heart. He goes to a burlesque house, thinking "I may as well pine away here as any place!"
[Chaw T. Backer's Gold Mine]
Roscoe / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Roscoe
Strong-Arm Man for Hire
Rusty Ryan / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- adventure; children; spy
- Characters
- Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Pierpont Lee; Alababa]; Carlos (villain, introduction)
Indexer Notes
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
[The Mental Giant?]
Blimpy / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Blimpy; Mike (first appearance); Sid (first appearance); Z. Z. Bankroll (first appearance)
[Battle of the Bands]
Swing Sisson / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; detective-mystery; adventure
- Characters
- Swing Sisson; Sweet Sue and the Jive Juliets (first appearance); Roger (first appearance; villain)
- Synopsis
- Swing receives anonymous notes and messages that he and his band are lousy.
Indexer Notes
Zolnerowich is credited on pencils on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the long torsoed bodies and shuffling way of walking, plus faces are all signs of his work.
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm sorry, boys, but as clowns, you're through!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Butch; Boss Jeff Bangs; Boppo; Linda Lou
- Synopsis
- The circus boss says Butch and Boppo aren't funny any more, and fires them as clowns. They're forced to impersonate the "World's Fattest Siamese Twins" in the sideshow.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Polka Dot on the Spot!
Doll Man -
1.
[Polka Dot on the Spot!]
Doll Man -
2.
[The Bedlam St. Dilemma]
Officer Shenanigan -
3.
[In Ghostonia]
Perky -
4.
["Maybe I'm an awful cad, and I hate to do this, but---"]
Lala Palooza -
5.
["Poor Vince...his busted love affair with that widow seems to have gotten him down!"]
Lala Palooza -
6.
[Chaw T. Backer's Gold Mine]
Roscoe -
7.
Strong-Arm Man for Hire
Rusty Ryan -
8.
The Disintegrator
Doll Man -
9.
Tubb for Mayor
Poison Ivy -
10.
[The Mental Giant?]
Blimpy -
11.
[Battle of the Bands]
Swing Sisson -
12.
["I'm sorry, boys, but as clowns, you're through!"]
Big Top
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- David Wilt
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