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Issue: Feature Comics #49 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1941
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Issues: #49 of 124 Issues (125 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Comic Favorites, Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/22/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (16 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, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, 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): John Devlin
Inker(s): John Devlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Lala Palooza
Character(s): Lala Palooza; Vincent; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Samar (inset)
First Line: Hit me twice more, Lala, and the army won't draft me!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Fiends and the Foundry

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (credited)
Penciller(s): Reed Crandall
Inker(s): Reed Crandall
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Doll Man
Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Dr. Roberts; Martha Roberts; Dan (foundry worker); Rolf Korbett (villain, introduction); The Hold Tight America Committee [Herman; rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all, one dies)
Synopsis: Doll Man investigates suspicious sabotage activities at a wartime aluminum foundry producing aircraft engine blocks.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Maxwell was a house name used by Quality Comics on some of its features. It was also a pen name for artist Lou Fine.
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Six Diving Venuses

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Devlin
Inker(s): John Devlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Big Top
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Elephant Sacrifice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as John Charles] (credited)
Penciller(s): Max Elkan
Inker(s): Max Elkan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Samar
Character(s): Samar; Bob (a doctor, introduction); Bob's wife (introduction); Polo (an elephant); a cannibal tribe (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: Polo is used by a tribe of cannibals to capture Samar.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: John Charles is a by-line and not the name of an actual person.
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Diary of the Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Toni Blum [as Noel Fowler] (credited)
Penciller(s): Al Bryant
Inker(s): Al Bryant
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Zero, Ghost Detective
Character(s): Zero; Dr. Burns, Senior (a ghost, introduction); Dr. Bill Burns, Junior (Zero's physician, a human, introduction); unnamed ghost (villain, a savage, introduction)
Synopsis: Zero visits his doctor where the physician shows him the still form of a girl who's malady is considered incurable without a plant the doctor's father discovered in Guatemala.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Noel Fowler is a by-line and not the name of an actual person.

Script credit suggested the Who's Who40-43).
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lank Leonard
Penciller(s): Lank Leonard
Inker(s): Lank Leonard
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mickey Finn
First Line: You mean your Uncle Phil isn't going...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: strip reprints
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Crime at the Clover Club

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Phil Martin
Penciller(s): Phil Martin
Inker(s): Phil Martin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Swing Sisson
Character(s): Swing Sisson (jazz band conductor, introduction); Toby Tucker (saxophonist, introduction); Bonnie Baxter (singer, introduction); Sisson's band (introduction for all); Pete Jaxon (introduction); Slats Elkin (villain, introduction); Slat's gang (villains, introduction for all)
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Devlin
Inker(s): John Devlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Lala Palooza
Character(s): Lala Palooza
First Line: For the love of Luke!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Purple Monster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Art Pinajian
Penciller(s): Art Pinajian
Inker(s): Art Pinajian
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Reynolds of the Mounted
Character(s): Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP; The Purple Monster and his gang (first appearance; villains; all die)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Case without Clues

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Campbell
Penciller(s): Harry Campbell
Inker(s): Harry Campbell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, espionage
Feature(s): Capt. Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy
Character(s): Capt. Bruce Blackburn; Sonya (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Phoney Father

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Gustavson
Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson
Inker(s): Paul Gustavson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, espionage
Feature(s): Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers
Character(s): Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty]; Joe (villain, introduction);
Joe's gang (villains, introduction for all)
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Master's Meteor

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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Dream of a Countess

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Vernon Henkel
Penciller(s): Vernon Henkel
Inker(s): Vernon Henkel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dusty Dane
Character(s): Dusty Dane
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: dream story
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Arthur Beeman
Penciller(s): Arthur Beeman
Inker(s): Arthur Beeman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Homer Doodle and Son
First Line: I'm gonna try some fishing out there!
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Pages: 1
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Poison Ivy vs. Poison Ivy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gill Fox
Penciller(s): Gill Fox
Inker(s): Gill Fox
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Poison Ivy
Character(s): Poison Ivy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Fox explains that Poison Ivy strip had to be cut to one page, and has P.I. fight himself.
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The Box B Rustlers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Alex Koda
Inker(s): Alex Koda
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Fargo Kid
Character(s): The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner]; The Box B Ranch owner (first appearance; villain)
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Pages: 4
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The ZANZIBAR Incident

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Witmer Williams
Inker(s): Witmer Williams
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): Spin Shaw
Character(s): Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Edith Shaw (first appearance; Spin's sister); The Nazis (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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