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Issue: #36
Published: September 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Ed Cronin
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was On-going Series
Notes: On sale date given in the previous issue. The on-sale date from Feature Comics #35 matches the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	The Doll Man
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Doll Man [Darrel Dane] Lalapalooza (inset) Spin Shaw (inset) Rance Keane (inset) Samar (inset) Mickey Finn (inset) Big Top (inset) Poison Ivy (inset) Zero (inset) Dusty Dane (inset) Reynolds Of The Mounted (inset) Rusty Ryan (inset)

Comic Story (9 pages)	Python the Brain Thief
Featuring:	The Doll Man
Synopsis:	When the Police discover headless bodies along the river, The Doll Man must use all of his cunning and wits to prevent the Python from stealing his brain!
Credits:	Script: Will Eisner [as William Erwin Maxwell] (signed) \| Pencils: Will Eisner; Lou Fine \| Inks: Lou Fine
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] Professor Roberts Python (villain, Introduction, Death) Professor Kreeper (villain, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Anti-Cancer Serum
Featuring:	Rance Keane
Credits:	Script: William A. Smith \| Pencils: William A. Smith (Will Arthur) \| Inks: William A. Smith
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Rance Keane Lola Pritchard Prof. English (first Appearance Villain)

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

Comic Story (5 pages)	Captured by the Amazons
Featuring:	Samar
Credits:	Script: ? [as John Charles] \| Pencils: Chuck Mazoujian ? \| Inks: Chuck Mazoujian ?
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Samar Lazana (first Appearance Villain) Lazana's Amazons (first Appearance Villains)

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Narcotics Ring
Featuring:	Reynolds of the Mounted
Credits:	Script: Art Pinajian \| Pencils: Art Pinajian \| Inks: Art Pinajian
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Red Baylor (first Appearance Villain) Spike (first Appearance Madge Carr (first Appearance Other Members Of A Narcotics Ring (first Appearance

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Mail Plane Spies
Featuring:	Spin Shaw
Credits:	Script: Bob Powell \| Pencils: Bob Powell \| Inks: Bob Powell
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw] Anne Antos (first Appearance) V: Heinrich Muller (first Appearance Villain Death) Greg Rucker (first Appearance Joe (first Appearance Another Pilot (first Appearance Pedro (first Appearance Villain) Pinky (first Appearance Slim (first Appearance Shorty (first Appearance

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

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Twin Kidnappers
Featuring:	Rusty Ryan
Credits:	Script: Paul Gustavson \| Pencils: Paul Gustavson \| Inks: Paul Gustavson \| Letters: Paul Gustavson
Genre:	Adventure Children Spy
Characters:	Rusty Ryan Roger (introduction) Smiley (Roger's Father, Introduction) Two Identical Twins (villains, Introduction For Both)

Comic Story (4 pages)	Captives of Captain Frosk
Featuring:	Dusty Dane
Credits:	Script: Vernon Henkel \| Pencils: Vernon Henkel \| Inks: Vernon Henkel
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Dusty Dane (first Appearance) Mike Cardigan (first Appearance) Captain Frosk (first Appearance Villain Death)

Comic Story (2 pages)	Ban on Chewing Gum
Featuring:	Poison Ivy
Credits:	Script: Gill Fox \| Pencils: Gill Fox \| Inks: Gill Fox
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Poison Ivy McNasty And His Gang (first Appearanc;e Villains)

Comic Story (4 pages)	Murder Tunes In
Featuring:	The Voice
Credits:	Pencils: Stan Asch \| Inks: Stan Asch
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	The Voice [Mr. Elixir] Tommy (bellhop) John Burke (villain, Introduction)

Text Story (2 pages)	Spook Ship
Featuring:	Perry Scott
Credits:	Script: Robert M. Hyatt \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Perry Scott

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Mystery Motor
Featuring:	Capt. Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy
Credits:	Script: Harry Campbell \| Pencils: Harry Campbell \| Inks: Harry Campbell
Genre:	Adventure Spy
Characters:	Captain Bruce Blackburn Weatherbee (first Appearance)

Cartoon (1 page)
Featuring:	Have a Laugh
Credits:	Script: Ed Reed \| Pencils: Ed Reed \| Inks: Ed Reed \| Letters: Ed Reed
Genre:	Humor

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

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Ghost's Vengeance
Featuring:	Zero, Ghost Detective
Credits:	Script: Toni Blum \| Pencils: Dan Zolnerowich \| Inks: Dan Zolnerowich
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Zero Jim Darwell (introduction, Flashback) Nell Farrel Darwell (introduction, Flashback, Death) Jane Darwell (introduction) Stephen Fiske (villain, A Ghost, Introduction, Death)

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