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Issue: Feature Comics #85 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1945
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Issues: #85 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: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Gwen Hansen
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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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The King of Beasts

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]; Swing Sisson (inset); Blimpy [Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain] (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Lala Palooza (inset)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The King of Beasts

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]; King (first appearance; villain; death); King's gang (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis: A giant gorilla in the zoo has killed a guard.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Tilting figures with long upper body and awkward way of standing and walking, some wild eyes, and also broad shoulders and narrow head on stretched neck are all pointing to Zolnerowich. He is credited on both pencils and ink on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, but inking vary, so 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
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Allura and the Rising Suns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Quackenbush
Inker(s): Bill Quackenbush
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 [Alababa; Pierpont Lee]; Allura (villain, introduction); the Rising Suns (villains, introduction for all)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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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
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: strip reprints
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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
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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The Musician of Crime

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; The Musician [Larry Lake] (first appearance; villain; death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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In Toy Land

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Sid Lazarus (signed)
Penciller(s): Sid Lazarus (signed)
Inker(s): Sid Lazarus (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Perky
Character(s): Perky; Lucy (first appearance; a paper doll); Hortense (first appearance; a male toy soldier)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Valley of Dead Men

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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The Balloon Flight

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; Prof. Wiphill (first appearance)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Mission to Port Satsuma

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Irving Tirman
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]; Sultan of Kowkow (first appearance); The Japanese (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Heads in 3/4 backview with streched neck and the jawbone going back behind the ear, even in side view, is peculiar. This can be found in his credited "Mike Gibbs Guerilla" story in Adventure Comics #88. Most probably him on this story.
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Twerlin the Sorceror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tony DiPreta (signed)
Inker(s): Tony DiPreta (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Blimpy
Character(s): Blimpy [aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain]; Miss Vanderworth (introduction); Twerlin the Sorcerer (villain); The Fraternity of Crime (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: Blimpy goes up against an evil sorcerer.
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Miscellaneous
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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