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Issue: Feature Comics #83 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1944
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Issues: #83 of 124 Issues (125 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Favorites, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Gill Fox
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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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Mechanical Man

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Al Bryant (signed)
Inker(s): Al Bryant (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Doll Man
Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Butch (from the feature "Big Top") (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Swing Sisson (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Blimpy [aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain] (inset); Perky (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Poison Ivy (inset)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Mechanical Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dan Zolnerowich ?
Inker(s): Dan Zolnerowich ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Doll Man
Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; The Mechanical Man (villain, introduction, only appearance, a robot); Professor Rudio (villain, introduction, only appearance)
Synopsis: The diminutive Professor Rudio tricks Doll Man into submitting to tests to unlock the secrets of his power, and the mighty mite finds himself trapped. He later learns that the professor was merely distracting Doll Man from his true invention: The Mechanical Man, a robot which is used to rob the Cosmopolitan Museum of rare art objects.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Originally credited "Al Bryant ?", but walking figures, a gaping face and broad shoulders with stretched neck look more like Zolnerowich, but uncertain.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bernard Dibble
Penciller(s): Bernard Dibble
Inker(s): Bernard Dibble
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Big Top
First Line: Our menagerie needs a shot in the arm...
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lank Leonard (signed)
Penciller(s): Lank Leonard (signed)
Inker(s): Lank Leonard (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mickey Finn
Character(s): Philip; Florrie; Tom
First Line: Gee, Tom...
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Reprint Notes: from newspaper strips (?)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Clover Club

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)
Penciller(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)
Inker(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Swing Sisson
Character(s): Swing Sisson; Bonnie Baxter; Toby; Mr. Mason
Synopsis: Swing and his friends are kidnapped by an ambulance.
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

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
First Line: Dat kid Poison Ivy is getting to be a nuisance!
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bernard Dibble
Penciller(s): Bernard Dibble
Inker(s): Bernard Dibble
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Lala Palooza
First Line: That rich widow has never seen me with my hat off...
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Reprint Notes: from newspaper strips (?)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Irving Tirman ?; Bill Quackenbush ?
Inker(s): Irving Tirman ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): Spin Shaw
Character(s): Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]
First Line: Flash! ...U.S. Naval ace faces court-martial...
Synopsis: Spin Shaw is found guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Some heads in 3/4 backview with the jawbone going back behind the ear is peculiar, as on page 3 point to Tirman, but some short figures look like Quackenbush.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tony DiPreta
Inker(s): Tony DiPreta
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Blimpy
Character(s): Blimpy [aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain]
First Line: It's no dream, folks!
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: DiPreta did very little writing in his career that is documented and it is very unlikely that he wrote this feature.
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Kitchen Boy Wanted

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Sid Lazarus
Penciller(s): Sid Lazarus
Inker(s): Sid Lazarus
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Perky
Character(s): Perky
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Quackenbush (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Quackenbush (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, espionage
Feature(s): Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers
Character(s): Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Pierpont Lee; Alababa]
First Line: There's always something new in the South Seas!
Synopsis: Rusty and his friends fight dinosaurs on a Pacific island.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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