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Issue: Feature Comics #37 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1940
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Issues: #37 of 124 Issues (125 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Favorites Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/23/1940
Volume:
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (15 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was on-going series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Lala Palooza; Vincent; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Rance Keane (inset); Samar (inset); Spin Shaw (inset)
First Line: Oh Vincent -- Don't take any sass from that peddler!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Jim Amash, in The Quality Companion from TwoMorrows, states that Gill Fox began doing covers on Feature Comics with issue #54. So the "Gil Fox ?" credit we had has been removed.
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The Laughing Puppeteer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Martha Roberts; Professor Roberts; Bombasto (villain, introduction); Giuseppe (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Doll Man must face and defeat the evil puppeteer named Bombasto, who uses shrunken corpses in his work.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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The Electric Cage Trap

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Rance Keane; Lola Pritchard; Prof. English; A racketeer (first appearance; villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Black Wolf

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Poison Ivy; The Black Wolf (first appearance; villain); Mr. Gunn (first appearance; villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Call of the North

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Duke Jackson (first appearance; villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Mutiny on the Ghost Galleon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, occult
Character(s): Zero; Shiela (introduction); Don (introduction); The ghost crew of the Flying Skull (villains, introduction for all)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Compare art with Hit #1.

Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.
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The Kidnapped Heiress

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Mr. Tolliver (first appearance); Betty Tolliver (first appearance); Count Vaslav (first appearance; villain; death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Lala Palooza
First Line: Lala did I ever tell you abou the time I paddled up the Niagara River?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Horse Race To Save Boyville

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, espionage
Character(s): Rusty Ryan
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Quick Police! There's been a murder here!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Final appearance in Feature Comics. Have a Laugh appears next in National Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 Series) #12.
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Tap Trap

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, espionage
Character(s): Captain Bruce Blackburn; Louise Lovely (villain, introduction); Anton (villain, introduction); Otto (villain, introductiuon)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Aboard the Ghost Ship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): The Voice [Mr. Elixir]; Gerald Carder (villain, villain, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Stan Aschmeier created the Voice, but the Who's Who does not credit him with writing the feature.

Last appearance.

The Voice wears a cape and a hat in this story.
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Antidote

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert M. Hyatt
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Perry Scott
Character(s): Perry Scott
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Yeah, he set fire to the bearded lady's whiskers!
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Pages: 2
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Dmitri the Pearl Thief

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Dusty Dane; Dimitri (first appearance; villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Who went swimmin' with your Uncle Phil?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: strip reprints
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The Amazons of Nesbo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Charles
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Samar; Queen Sopho (first appearance); Ishta (first appearance); Leba (first appearance); other Amazons of Nesbo (first appearance); Gaol (first appearance); other men of Nesbo (first appearance); Nubians (first appearance; villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Compare art with Doll Man #3.
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.

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