Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1942-06-24
Editing: Gill Fox (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Feature Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #59 Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Mickey Finn / cover / 1 page

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?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Gosh, Mickey.. after 10 weeks of shadow boxing, I didn't learn t'box, but my shadow did!
  • Keywords:shadow boxing
Characters:
Mickey Finn; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Samar (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Fargo Kid (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Swing Sisson (inset); Reynolds of the Mounties (inset); Zero (inset); Poison Ivy (inset)

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 Human Manikins]
(Table of Contents: 1)

Doll Man / comic story / 11 pages

Script:
? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (signed)
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?
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?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; De Swank (villain, introduction); Samson (villain, introduction); Von Frolica (villain, introduction); un-named Nazi spies (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis:
Martha is kidnapped by De Swank, who owns a department store in which he turns women into lifelike manikins with a serum he intends to sell to Fifth Columnists.

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

Mickey Finn / comic story / 5 pages

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?
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?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:When is your uncle Phil gonna start playing golf?

Indexer Notes

strip reprints

[The Caretaker's Ghost]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Zero, Ghost Detective / comic story / 5 pages

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?
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?
  • Genre:detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural
Characters:
Zero; Jim (introduction); Rick Williams (introduction); A caretaker's ghost (villain, introduction, death)

Indexer Notes

Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.

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

Big Top / comic story / 1 page

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?
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?
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?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You and Duck-on-a-Rock better look for new jobs...

[Jungle Storm]
(Table of Contents: 5)

Samar / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
John Charles (credited)
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?
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?
  • Genre:jungle; adventure
Characters:
Samar; Frank (introduction); Jane (introduction); Bill (villain, introduction, reforms)
Synopsis:
Samar comes upon a man and woman being attacked by a giant gorilla upon returning to civilization from a gem expedition and saves their lives. But treachery strikes Samar and he goes on the trail of Bill who has forcibly taken the girl. Samar saves both from an elephant stampede and they reunite with Frank and all is well.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

John Charles, as used at Quality Comics, was a house name used for multiple writers. It is not the UK writer John Charles who started his career in the 1990s.

[The Great Ghost Herd]
(Table of Contents: 6)

Fargo Kid / comic story / 4 pages

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?
  • Genre:western-frontier
Characters:
The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner]; The "Hooded Murderer" and his gang (first appearance; villains)

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

Lala Palooza / comic story / 2 pages

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?
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?
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?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:When are you going to beat those rugs, Vincent?
Characters:
Lala Palooza

[Jack Traxe's Leveraged Buyout]
(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; Jack Traxe (first appearance; villain); Butcher (first appearance; villain); Eddie (first appearance; villain)

[The Stepfather's Comeuppance]
(Table of Contents: 9)

Poison Ivy / comic story / 1 page

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?
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?
  • Genre:humor
Characters:
Poison Ivy

[The Ghost Ship]
(Table of Contents: 10)

Reynolds of the Mounted / comic story / 5 pages

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?
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?
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?
  • Genre:western-frontier; adventure; detective-mystery
Characters:
Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP; Flatfoot; A gang of spies (first appearance; villains)

[The Japanese Transformation Drug]
(Table of Contents: 11)

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

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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]; Ellen Drew (introduction); an Army Intelligence agent (introduction); Man of a Thousand Faces (introduction, death); The Black Dragon Society (villains, some die); Hitasu (villain, introduction, death)
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

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

Out of the Depths
(Table of Contents: 12)

Perry Scott / text story / 2 pages

Script:
Robert M. Hyatt ?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:adventure
Characters:
Perry Scott

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

Homer Doodle and Son / comic story / 1 page

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?
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?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hello folks--it's picnic time!

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

The Spider Widow / comic story / 5 pages

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?
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?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Death Steals the Show of the Great Darbun Circus!
  • Keywords:Darbun Circus
Characters:
The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayton]; Bob; J. P. Darbun (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:
Spider Widow investigates a series of mysterious but fatal accidents at the local circus, and discovers the owner, dressed as a clown, is responsible. It seems he owed his performers two years back wages, and, because he couldn't pay them off (and was going to lose ownership of the circus), he decided to murder the acts one at a time!
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

The Who's Who verifies Borth as not only creator of this strip, but the writer and artist as well.
Last appearance of the "The Spider Widow" feature for a while; it will be replaced next issue by its own spinoff, "Spider Widow and the Raven". The "The Spider Widow" feature will return in issue #67.

[The General's Daughter]
(Table of Contents: 15)

Spin Shaw / comic story / 5 pages

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?
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?
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?
  • Genre:aviation; adventure
Characters:
Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Gen. T. F. Langer (introduction); Ellen Langer (introduction); the Japanese (villains)
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Gosh, Mickey.. after 10 weeks of shadow boxing, I didn't learn t'box, but my shadow did!"]
    Mickey Finn
  2. [The Human Manikins]
    Doll Man
  3. ["When is your uncle Phil gonna start playing golf?"]
    Mickey Finn
  4. [The Caretaker's Ghost]
    Zero, Ghost Detective
  5. ["You and Duck-on-a-Rock better look for new jobs..."]
    Big Top
  6. [Jungle Storm]
    Samar
  7. [The Great Ghost Herd]
    Fargo Kid
  8. ["When are you going to beat those rugs, Vincent?"]
    Lala Palooza
  9. [Jack Traxe's Leveraged Buyout]
    Swing Sisson
  10. [The Stepfather's Comeuppance]
    Poison Ivy
  11. [The Ghost Ship]
    Reynolds of the Mounted
  12. [The Japanese Transformation Drug]
    Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers
  13. Out of the Depths
    Perry Scott
  14. ["Hello folks--it's picnic time!"]
    Homer Doodle and Son
  15. ["Death Steals the Show of the Great Darbun Circus!"]
    The Spider Widow
  16. [The General's Daughter]
    Spin Shaw
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