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Issue: Feature Comics #44 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1941
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Issues: #44 of 124 Issues (125 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
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Indicia Publisher: Comic Favorites Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/26/1941
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. 2.
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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
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Spin Shaw (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Samar (inset); Zero (inset); Poison Ivy (inset); Dusty Dane (inset); Rance Keane (inset); Reynolds of the Mounted (inset); Bruce Blackburn (inset); Big Top (inset); Mickey Finn (inset)
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Pages: 1
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Trouble on the Twentieth Century Limited

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Dr. Roberts; Schultz (villain, introduction); spies [Heinrich; others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: Darrel and Dr. Roberts speed after a train, attempting to catch up with a foreign spy who has stolen a valuable formula for making poison gas. Doll Man catches up to him only to lose the agent afterwards, but the crafty crime fighter sets a trap to catch all those involved.
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Pages: 9
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Somebody's swiped m' dough!
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Pages: 2
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The Mystery Schooner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: western
Character(s): Rance Keane; Harvey Topping; Nazi spies (first appearance; villains)
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Pages: 4
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Don't Fear the Reaper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Zero; un-named old man (introduction, death); old man's son (introduction); The Reaper [Death] (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: In this story, Zero performs an incantation by drawing a circular pattern -- or zero -- that transports him into the past and which also summons ghosts.

Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.
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King of the Barrens

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP; Red Deer (first appearance); Rawson (first appearance; villain); Canua (first appearance; villain)
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Pages: 5
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Magic Chalk

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
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The Obandi War Dance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Samar; The Obandi tribe (first appearance); Julie (first appearance); Julie's father (first appearance); Several bad guys (first appearance; villains)
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Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Lala Palooza
First Line: Here's the only picture we have of Vincent...
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Pages: 2
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Fear, Inc.

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, espionage
Character(s): Capt. Bruce Blackburn; Mrs. Blake (first appearance); Herr Silber and his gang (first appearnce; villains; death)
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Pages: 5
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The Draftsman's Treason

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): USA; unnamed U.S. Secretary of War (introduction); Linden (villain, government draftsman, introduction); Unger (villain, introduction); unnamed spies (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: A corrupt government draftsman attempts to steal the plans of U.S. defenses, but USA throws a monkey wrench into that plan.
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The Underwater Counterfeiters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, espionage
Character(s): Rusty Ryan; Rickie (villain, introduction); Rickie'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.
Last appearance of the "Rusty Ryan" feature for a while; it will be replaced next issue by its own spinoff, "Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers". The "Rusty Ryan" feature will return in issue #101.
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Water for the King

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Robert Hyatt
Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Perry Scott
Character(s): Perry Scott
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Pages: 2
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The Super Conscientious Objector

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Poison Ivy; a super guy (first appearance)
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The Map of Sinbad

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Dusty Dane; Bulldog Teeters (first appearance; villain; death)
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Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Gee, Mickey... I'm glad this day's work is over... I'm tired!
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: strip reprints
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The Mutineers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]
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Pages: 5

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