Feature Comics
#30
(March 1940)
Quality Comics,
1939 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1940-01-31
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Favorites Inc.
- Editing
- Ed Cronin (editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 448105.
[no title indexed]
Off the Record / cartoon / 0.67 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh Doctor- I always have to unwrap things
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Four gag cartoons
[The FBI Agent Killing]
The Clock / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; Carl Adolf Voss (first appearance; villain)
[no title indexed]
Jane Arden; Lena Pry / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jane, I'm going to like this lake
- Genre
- drama; humor; adventure
- Characters
- Jane Arden; Lena Pry
- Keywords
- soap opera
Indexer Notes
Sunday newspaper comic strip page reprints with Jane Arden on top half, along with Lena Pry strip on bottom left quarter and Jane Arden paper doll on bottom right quarter.
Last appearance in Feature Comics. Jane Arden (and Lena Pry) will move to Crack Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 Series) starting with issue #1.
[The Phoney Gold Shipment]
Reynolds of the Mounted / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier; adventure; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Lane (first appearance; villain); Jeff Dixon (first appearance; villain)
A Lively Day
The Bungle Family / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; domestic
Indexer Notes
Sunday newspaper comic strip page reprints with a one row strip titled Testimonials/Little Brother running along the top. Title for the Bungle Family strip on second page is "An Evening in Chemistry."
[no title indexed]
Rube Goldberg's Side Show / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Sunday newspaper comic strip page reprint.
[no title indexed]
Off the Record / cartoon / 0.67 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Don't take drinkin' water outta th' well
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Four gag cartoons. Shares balance of page with two advertisements.
[Collision at Sea]
Spin Shaw / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- aviation; adventure
- Characters
- Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Captain "Poison" Atkins (first appearance); Ann Atkins (first appearance)
[no title indexed]
Ned Brant / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ned, our old rivals, the Commerce students
- Genre
- teen; sports
Indexer Notes
strip reprints
[The Fate of the Dragon]
Captain Fortune / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Captain Fortune [Tyrone Fortune]
[no title indexed]
Lala Palooza / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Vincent's Diary -- I didn't know that he was keeping one...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lala Palooza
[The Bomber Engine Robberies]
Doll Man / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Will Eisner (signed as William Erwin Maxwell)
- Pencils
- Will Eisner; Lou Fine
- Inks
- Lou Fine
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; The Nazis (villains)
Indexer Notes
In the story, Doll Man is shown wearing a sleeveless shirt, but colored as if bare chested.
[no title indexed]
Big Top / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey Pop -- look -- there's a man throwing knives at a lady!
- Genre
- humor
[The Bridge Blasters]
Rance Keane / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Bill Smith (signed as Will Arthur)
- Pencils
- Bill Smith (signed as Will Arthur)
- Inks
- Bill Smith (signed as Will Arthur)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- western-frontier; adventure
- Characters
- Rance Keane; Seth Cheatham (first appearance; villain)
[no title indexed]
Joe Palooka / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now here is the man
- Genre
- sports
- Characters
- Joe Palooka; Max; Knobby
Indexer Notes
Sunday newspaper comic strip page reprints.
[no title indexed]
"Good Deed" Dotty; Dixie Dugan / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Just give me ways and means
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Sunday newspaper comic strip page reprints with one row of "Good Deed" Dotty appearing on top.
Smoke Screen
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Toni Blum (credited as A. L. Allen)
- Pencils
- ? (illustration)
- Inks
- ? (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Walter
- Synopsis
- Walter discovers smugglers flying guns across the Rio Grande into Mexico.
Indexer Notes
Text story with a small color illustration.
[no title indexed]
Off the Record / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Say- are ya sure we're takin' this money
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Five gag cartoons.
The World's First Vault over Fourteen Feet
They're Still Talking / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; sports
- Characters
- Sabin Carr
- Synopsis
- Story of the first athlete to vault over fourteen feet.
[The Dr. Croft Ruby Mystery: Part 1]
Charlie Chan / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Charlie Chan
[no title indexed]
Toddy / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hmm- some pitcher-- the Square Shooter!
- Genre
- humor; children
Indexer Notes
Appears on top half of two pages, for a total of one page. Newspaper strip reprint.
[no title indexed]
Mortimer Mum / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Appears on bottom half of two pages, for a total of one page. Newspaper strip reprint. A pantomime strip with no dialog.
[Episode 31]
Slim and Tubby / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- John Welch
- Pencils
- Jack W. McGuire (signed as J. W. McGuire)
- Inks
- Jack W. McGuire (signed as J. W. McGuire)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gee, Benton- just when you need money most
- Genre
- adventure; western-frontier; aviation
Indexer Notes
Sunday newspaper comic strip page reprint.
[no title indexed]
Rube Goldberg's Side Show / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Sunday newspaper comic strip page reprint.
[no title indexed]
Mickey Finn; Nippie -- He's Often Wrong / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- C'mon, Nippie-- Pete won't come out now!
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Sunday newspaper comic strip page reprints with a one row strip titled "Nippie -- He's Often Wrong" running along the top.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Stop, thief!! You can't escape the Doll Man!"]
Doll Man -
1.
["Oh Doctor- I always have to unwrap things"]
Off the Record -
2.
[The FBI Agent Killing]
The Clock -
3.
["Jane, I'm going to like this lake"]
Jane Arden; Lena Pry -
4.
[The Phoney Gold Shipment]
Reynolds of the Mounted -
5.
A Lively Day
The Bungle Family -
6.
[no title indexed]
Rube Goldberg's Side Show -
7.
["Don't take drinkin' water outta th' well"]
Off the Record -
8.
[Collision at Sea]
Spin Shaw -
9.
["Ned, our old rivals, the Commerce students"]
Ned Brant -
10.
[The Fate of the Dragon]
Captain Fortune -
11.
["Vincent's Diary -- I didn't know that he was keeping one..."]
Lala Palooza -
12.
[The Bomber Engine Robberies]
Doll Man -
13.
["Hey Pop -- look -- there's a man throwing knives at a lady!"]
Big Top -
14.
[The Bridge Blasters]
Rance Keane -
15.
["Now here is the man"]
Joe Palooka -
16.
["Just give me ways and means"]
"Good Deed" Dotty; Dixie Dugan -
17.
Smoke Screen
-
18.
["Say- are ya sure we're takin' this money"]
Off the Record -
19.
The World's First Vault over Fourteen Feet
They're Still Talking -
20.
[The Dr. Croft Ruby Mystery: Part 1]
Charlie Chan -
21.
["Hmm- some pitcher-- the Square Shooter!"]
Toddy -
22.
[no title indexed]
Mortimer Mum -
23.
[Episode 31]
Slim and Tubby -
24.
[no title indexed]
Rube Goldberg's Side Show -
25.
["C'mon, Nippie-- Pete won't come out now!"]
Mickey Finn; Nippie -- He's Often Wrong
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Bill Devine
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Clint Maxwell
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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