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Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 52
Editing: Gwen Hansen (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Feature Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #117 Edit Cover
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Polka Dot on the Spot!
(Table of Contents)

Doll Man / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Doll Man [Darrel Dane]

Issue Data

Parts of this issue are reprinted:

[Polka Dot on the Spot!]
(Table of Contents: 1)

Doll Man / comic story / 11 pages

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?
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  • 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 (1)

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]
(Table of Contents: 2)

Officer Shenanigan / comic story / 4 pages

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  • Genre:humor
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Officer Shenanigan

[In Ghostonia]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Perky / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:fantasy-supernatural
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Perky

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

Lala Palooza / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Maybe I'm an awful cad, and I hate to do this, but---
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]
(Table of Contents: 5)

Lala Palooza / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Poor Vince...his busted love affair with that widow seems to have gotten him down!
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]
(Table of Contents: 6)

Roscoe / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters:
Roscoe

Strong-Arm Man for Hire
(Table of Contents: 7)

Rusty Ryan / comic story / 5 pages

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  • 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 Disintegrator
(Table of Contents: 8)

Doll Man / text story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Doll Man [Darrel Dane]

Tubb for Mayor
(Table of Contents: 9)

Poison Ivy / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor
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Poison Ivy

[The Mental Giant?]
(Table of Contents: 10)

Blimpy / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:humor
Characters:
Blimpy; Mike (first appearance); Sid (first appearance); Z. Z. Bankroll (first appearance)

[Battle of the Bands]
(Table of Contents: 11)

Swing Sisson / comic story / 5 pages

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  • 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]
(Table of Contents: 12)

Big Top / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I'm sorry, boys, but as clowns, you're through!
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.
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Polka Dot on the Spot!
    Doll Man
  2. [Polka Dot on the Spot!]
    Doll Man
  3. [The Bedlam St. Dilemma]
    Officer Shenanigan
  4. [In Ghostonia]
    Perky
  5. ["Maybe I'm an awful cad, and I hate to do this, but---"]
    Lala Palooza
  6. ["Poor Vince...his busted love affair with that widow seems to have gotten him down!"]
    Lala Palooza
  7. [Chaw T. Backer's Gold Mine]
    Roscoe
  8. Strong-Arm Man for Hire
    Rusty Ryan
  9. The Disintegrator
    Doll Man
  10. Tubb for Mayor
    Poison Ivy
  11. [The Mental Giant?]
    Blimpy
  12. [Battle of the Bands]
    Swing Sisson
  13. ["I'm sorry, boys, but as clowns, you're through!"]
    Big Top
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