Digital Comic Museum - Feature Comics 064


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Issue: #64
Published: January 1943, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Gill Fox
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was On-going Series
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.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	The Case of the Unlucky Quarter
Featuring:	Doll Man
Credits:	Pencils: Al Bryant (signed) \| Inks: Al Bryant (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Doll Man [Darrel Dane] Lala Palooza (inset) Rusty Ryan (inset) Mickey Finn (inset) Spin Shaw (inset)

Comic Story (13 pages)	The Unlucky Quarter
Featuring:	Doll Man
Credits:	Script: Bill Woolfolk ? \| Pencils: Rudy Palais \| Inks: Rudy Palais
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Doll Man [Darrel Dane] "Once More" Charlie (first Appearance) Midnight Joe (first Appearance, Villain, Death) Louie (first Appearance, Villain, Death) Prof. Belittle (first Appearance, Villain, Death) Slick Simmons (first Appearance, Villain, Death) Peg (first Appearance, Villain, Death)

Comic Story (4 pages)
Featuring:	Mickey Finn
Credits:	Script: Lank Leonard \| Pencils: Lank Leonard \| Inks: Lank Leonard
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (6 pages)	Death to Irving Gershwin
Featuring:	Swing Sisson
Credits:	Script: Phil Martin (signed) \| Pencils: Phil Martin (signed) \| Inks: Phil Martin (signed)
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery
Characters:	Swing Sisson Irving Gershwin (first Appearance, A Song Writer) Von Brunt (first Appearance, Villain) His Nazis (first Appearance, Villains)

Comic Story (2 pages)
Featuring:	Big Top
Credits:	Pencils: Bernard Dibble \| Inks: Bernard Dibble
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (1 page)	The Human Fly
Featuring:	Poison Ivy
Credits:	Script: Gill Fox (signed) \| Pencils: Gill Fox (signed) \| Inks: Gill Fox (signed)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Poison Ivy

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Death Emerald
Featuring:	Zero, Ghost Detective
Credits:	Script: Toni Blum \| Pencils: Witmer Williams \| Inks: Witmer Williams
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Zero Vern Hobson (introduction) Ann Hobson (villain, Introduction) Death (villain)

Comic Story (2 pages)
Featuring:	Lala Palooza
Credits:	Pencils: Bernard Dibble \| Inks: Bernard Dibble
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Lala Palooza

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Traitorous Actor
Featuring:	Spider Widow and the Raven
Synopsis:	Dianne takes up acting as a hobby and begins appearing in summer theatre productions outside New York. She discovers that one of her fellow actors is a spy, and the Raven steps in to help her nab him.
Credits:	Script: Frank Borth (signed) \| Pencils: Frank Borth (signed) \| Inks: Frank Borth (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayson] The Raven [Tony Grey] Lee (introduction) Matt (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Homer Doodle and Son
Credits:	Script: Arthur Beeman \| Pencils: Arthur Beeman \| Inks: Arthur Beeman
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (5 pages)	Kismet El Aschid
Featuring:	Spin Shaw
Credits:	Script: ? [as Rex Smith] (signed) \| Pencils: Bob Powell \| Inks: Bob Powell
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw] Kismet El Aschid (villain, Introduction) The Nazis (villains)

Text Story (2 pages)	Death from the Skies
Featuring:	Perry Scott
Credits:	Script: Robert M. Hyatt ? \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Perry Scott

Comic Story (7 pages)	Origin of the Bungling Buddha
Featuring:	Blimpy
Synopsis:	Blimpy, an ancient Oriental Buddha statue brought to life when young Tabby Tyler spoke the magic words: "Oggle doggie woggle ibbidy bibbidy sibbidy sab, dictionary down the ferry, out goes ipso facto with the floy-floy!" covers his blue skin with coal dust and tries to pass for an African-American.
Credits:	Script: Sy Reit \| Pencils: Sy Reit \| Inks: Sy Reit
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Blimpy [aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain] (introduction, Origin) Tabby Tyler (introduction) Inspector Sherlock Foo (introduction)

Comic Story (9 pages)	How To Be a Super Salesman
Featuring:	Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers
Credits:	Script: Paul Gustavson (signed) \| Pencils: Paul Gustavson (signed) \| Inks: Paul Gustavson (signed) \| Letters: Paul Gustavson
Genre:	Adventure Children Spy
Characters:	Rusty Ryan The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott Ed Whitey Scotty Moi Yutong] Wilbert T. Thump (introduction) Kurt Luger (introduction, Death) Alfred Krantz (villain, Introduction)

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