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Issue: Feature Comics #59 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1942
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Issues: #59 of 124 Issues (125 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Comic Favorites Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/24/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (15 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Gill Fox
Disclose 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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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): 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)
First Line: Gosh, Mickey.. after 10 weeks of shadow boxing, I didn't learn t'box, but my shadow did!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Human Manikins

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]; 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.
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Pages: 11
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: When is your uncle Phil gonna start playing golf?
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: strip reprints
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The Caretaker's Ghost

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Zero; Jim (introduction); Rick Williams (introduction); A caretaker's ghost (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: You and Duck-on-a-Rock better look for new jobs...
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Pages: 1
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Jungle Storm

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Charles (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): 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.
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Pages: 5
Disclose 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.
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The Great Ghost Herd

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner]; The "Hooded Murderer" and his gang (first appearance; villains)
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Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Lala Palooza
First Line: When are you going to beat those rugs, Vincent?
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Pages: 2
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Jack Traxe's Leveraged Buyout

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Swing Sisson; Jack Traxe (first appearance; villain); Butcher (first appearance; villain); Eddie (first appearance; villain)
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Pages: 6
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The Stepfather's Comeuppance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Poison Ivy
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Pages: 1
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The Ghost Ship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP; Flatfoot; A gang of spies (first appearance; villains)
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Pages: 5
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The Japanese Transformation Drug

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, espionage
Character(s): 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)
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Out of the Depths

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

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Hello folks--it's picnic time!
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayton]; Bob; J. P. Darbun (villain, introduction)
First Line: Death Steals the Show of the Great Darbun Circus!
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!
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In Issue: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #91 published January 2013
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Pages: 5
Disclose 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.
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The General's Daughter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Gen. T. F. Langer (introduction); Ellen Langer (introduction); the Japanese (villains)
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Pages: 5

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