Volume:
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1942-01-23
Editing: Ed Cronin (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Feature Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #54 Edit Cover
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Doll Man / cover / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Mickey Finn (inset); Samar (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Zero (inset); Swing Sisson (inset); Poison Ivy (inset); Reynolds of the Mounted (inset); Bruce Blackburn (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Big Top (inset)
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Pencil and ink credits from Keif Fromm via the GCD Error List (22 April 2007), based on a Jim Amash interview with Fox in Alter-Ego #12. The original indexer credited both pencils and inks to Reed Crandall ?.

This was the first cover done by Fox for Quality Comics.

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2.

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Doll Man / comic story / 11 pages

Script:
? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (signed)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Darrel Dane, a friend of Dr. Roberts, renowned scientist...
Characters:
Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Ituri (villain, Japanese agent)
Synopsis:
The Doll Man faces Ituri, a Japanese agent in Virginia, who is attempting to sabotage our military's sub-detecting invention.

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Big Top / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You're an ace for minding little Aggie, Butch!
Characters:
Butch

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Zero, Ghost Detective / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Freak circumstance combines with a setting of moss-hung bayous...
Characters:
Zero

Indexer Notes

Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.

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Samar / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
? [as John Charles] (signed)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:jungle; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The mighty jungle-man treks through his home highlands.
Characters:
Samar

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Mickey Finn / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You mean that your uncle made two resolutions to keep out of arguments?
Reprints (0)
  • from strip.

Indexer Notes

strip reprints

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Fargo Kid / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Tim Turner fights his strangest battle...
Characters:
The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner]

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Lala Palooza / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:So! Lala let another salesman sell her a silly doo-dad...
Characters:
Lala Palooza

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Swing Sisson / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Phil Martin (signed)
Pencils:
Phil Martin (signed)
Inks:
Phil Martin (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; detective-mystery; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:At the swank Clover Club in New York...
  • Keywords:Clover Club
Characters:
Swing Sisson; Toby Tucker; Bonnie Baxter; The Maestro (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:
Swsing must battle the Maestro, whose violin playing mesmerized his victims.

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Reynolds of the Mounted / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Art Pinajian (signed)
Inks:
Art Pinajian (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:western-frontier; adventure; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Death strikes, and a wave of fear and terror...
Characters:
Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP

Kiss of the Cobra
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Captain Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; spy
Characters:
Capt. Bruce Blackburn; Sonya (villain)

Uncle Sam Makes a Homer
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Perry Scott / text story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

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Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:adventure; children; spy
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:On a paid expense tour of the country...
Characters:
Rusty Ryan' The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty]

Indexer Notes

All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

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Homer Doodle and Son / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:It's a fuse I'll bet!

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Poison Ivy / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Gill Fox (signed)
Pencils:
Gill Fox (signed)
Inks:
Gill Fox (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Poison, this is a block of the heaviest metal in the world...
Characters:
Poison Ivy

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Spin Shaw / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
? [as Rex Smith] (signed)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:aviation; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Treacherous forces attempt to hijack...
Characters:
Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Doll Man
  2. ["Darrel Dane, a friend of Dr. Roberts, renowned scientist..."]
    Doll Man
  3. ["You're an ace for minding little Aggie, Butch!"]
    Big Top
  4. ["Freak circumstance combines with a setting of moss-hung bayous..."]
    Zero, Ghost Detective
  5. ["The mighty jungle-man treks through his home highlands."]
    Samar
  6. ["You mean that your uncle made two resolutions to keep out of arguments?"]
    Mickey Finn
  7. ["Tim Turner fights his strangest battle..."]
    Fargo Kid
  8. ["So! Lala let another salesman sell her a silly doo-dad..."]
    Lala Palooza
  9. ["At the swank Clover Club in New York..."]
    Swing Sisson
  10. ["Death strikes, and a wave of fear and terror..."]
    Reynolds of the Mounted
  11. Kiss of the Cobra
    Captain Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy
  12. Uncle Sam Makes a Homer
    Perry Scott
  13. ["On a paid expense tour of the country..."]
    Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers
  14. ["It's a fuse I'll bet!"]
    Homer Doodle and Son
  15. ["Poison, this is a block of the heaviest metal in the world..."]
    Poison Ivy
  16. ["Treacherous forces attempt to hijack..."]
    Spin Shaw
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