Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1942-04-24
Editing: Gill Fox (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Feature Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #57 Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Lala Palooza / cover / 1 page

Script:
?
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Never mind the next adagio step, Lala...
Characters:
Lala Palooza; Vincent; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Samar (inset)

Indexer Notes

Artist correction from Joe Devlin (who did not exist) to John Devlin made by Craig Delich 2013-4-6.

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.

[The Japanese Doll Man]
(Table of Contents: 1)

Doll Man / comic story / 11 pages

Script:
? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (credited)
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?
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?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; a Japanese "Doll Man" (villain, introduction, death); Agent N (villain, introduction, death); Dr. Hoto (villain, introduction); the Japanese (villains)
Synopsis:
The Japanese force their own scientist, Dr. Hoto, to reproduce the Doll Man's shrinking serum, and, after several failures, he succeeds in shrinking a wrestler, whose strength was increased, but mind was destroyed. Doll Man tricks his foe into a cannon, shooting him to the sharks!

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 2)

Big Top / comic story / 1 page

Script:
?
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor

Indexer Notes

Writer credit revised from Bernard Dibble to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. Dibble did not write this strip according to the Who's Who.

[The Ghost of Al Margotti]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Zero, Ghost Detective / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural
Characters:
Zero; Julie (introduction); Xavier Jones (chemist, introduction); Al Margotti (villain, a ghost, introduction, death)
Synopsis:
Zero meets a chemist who has invented a "ghost disintegrator".

Indexer Notes

Toni Blum is the only person identified by the Who's Who as the writer for this feature from 1940-43.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 4)

Mickey Finn / comic story / 4 pages

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?
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?
  • Genre:humor

Indexer Notes

strip reprints

[The Origin of the Spider Widow]
(Table of Contents: 5)

The Spider Widow / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Frank Borth (signed)
Pencils:
Frank Borth (signed)
Inks:
Frank Borth (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayton] (introduction, origin); Bob Ableson (friend of Dianne's, introduction); Jake Lardo (villain, introduction); Lardo's gang (villains, introduction for all); Hetzernoff (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis:
A pair of mobsters visit Dianne's home, needing some gasoline for their getaway car. Dianne then donned an old green rubber mask, gathered some of her gardener's pet spiders, and hid inside the crook's trunk. When they arrived at the criminal's lair, she first learned that Lardo was sympathetic to Hitler, then scared his men with black widow spiders, over-coming all of them for the Police to round up.

Indexer Notes

The Who's Who indicates Borth as not only creator of this strip, but the writer and artist as well.

[The Eastern Gangster Invasion]
(Table of Contents: 6)

Fargo Kid / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
?
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?
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?
  • Genre:adventure; western-frontier
Characters:
The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner]

Indexer Notes

Signed in the last panel.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 7)

Lala Palooza / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
?
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
Characters:
Lala Palooza

Indexer Notes

Writer credit revised from Bernard Dibble to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. Dibble did not write this strip according to the Who's Who.

[Mike Yemon's Protection Racket]
(Table of Contents: 8)

Swing Sisson / comic story / 6 pages

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?
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?
  • Genre:humor; detective-mystery; adventure
Characters:
Swing Sisson; Mike Yemon and his gang (first appearance; villains)

[The Self-Stranglers]
(Table of Contents: 9)

Poison Ivy / comic story / 1 page

Script:
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
Characters:
Poison Ivy

[Samar Vs. the Gorilla]
(Table of Contents: 10)

Samar / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
?
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:jungle; adventure
Characters:
Samar; Otto (villain); another spy (villain)

[The Black Dragon Society]
(Table of Contents: 11)

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

Script:
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?
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  • Genre:adventure; children; spy
Characters:
Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty; Moi Yutong (introduction)]; The Black Dragon Society [a Moi Yutong impostor; others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:
Rusty and the Boyville Brigadiers decide to challenge the Black Dragon Society, and, to this end, accept a young Chinese woman, Moi Yutong, into their ranks. Soon after, she was kidnapped in front of their eyes, and it took some gunplay and rough stuff to rescue her.

Indexer Notes

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

Bloom's Death
(Table of Contents: 12)

Perry Scott / text story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:adventure

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 13)

Homer Doodle and Son / comic story / 1 page

Script:
?
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 14)

Richards of the Mounties / comic story / 5 pages

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?
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Into the Giant Redwood Forest of the Northwest...

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 15)

Spin Shaw / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
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?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Nothing in the Blue Sky or the Open Sea...
Characters:
Spin Shaw
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Never mind the next adagio step, Lala..."]
    Lala Palooza
  2. [The Japanese Doll Man]
    Doll Man
  3. [no title indexed]
    Big Top
  4. [The Ghost of Al Margotti]
    Zero, Ghost Detective
  5. [no title indexed]
    Mickey Finn
  6. [The Origin of the Spider Widow]
    The Spider Widow
  7. [The Eastern Gangster Invasion]
    Fargo Kid
  8. [no title indexed]
    Lala Palooza
  9. [Mike Yemon's Protection Racket]
    Swing Sisson
  10. [The Self-Stranglers]
    Poison Ivy
  11. [Samar Vs. the Gorilla]
    Samar
  12. [The Black Dragon Society]
    Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers
  13. Bloom's Death
    Perry Scott
  14. [no title indexed]
    Homer Doodle and Son
  15. ["Into the Giant Redwood Forest of the Northwest..."]
    Richards of the Mounties
  16. ["Nothing in the Blue Sky or the Open Sea..."]
    Spin Shaw
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