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Issue: Feature Comics #56 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1942
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Issues: #56 of 124 Issues (125 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Favorites Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/25/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (15 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Gilbert Fox
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Mickey Finn (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Poison Ivy (inset)
First Line: American Safety Matches
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]
First Line: The stage is set for a real life drama involving Darrel Dane...
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Pages: 11
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: humorous
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: jungle
Character(s): Samar
First Line: Relentless foe of jungle treachery, Samar pits his tremendous...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: John Charles, as used at Quality Comics, was a house name used for multiple writers. It is not the UK writer John Charles who started his career in the 1990s.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: western
Character(s): Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP
First Line: Is there really a sea monster?
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: strip reprints
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner]
First Line: Tim Turner, better known as the fighting Fargo Kid, avenges the past and...
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Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Lala Palooza
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Swing Sisson; Bonnie Baxter (vocalist); Toby Tucker (sax player)
First Line: Swing Sisson, known to the Clover Club patrons as the battling...
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Pages: 6
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Spectre at Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: mystery, occult
Character(s): Zero
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Toni Blum is the only person identified by the Who's Who as the writer for this feature from 1940-43.
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Boomerang

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, espionage
Character(s): Captain Bruce Blackburn
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Last appearance.
The Who's Who lists Harry Francis Campbell as writer of this strip from 1940-42 and Henry Weston Taylor as the artist for the same period. However, evidence exists that Campbell did the art on some issues.
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Island of Lost Time

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Perry Scott
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Pages: 2
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The Black Dragon Society

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, espionage
Character(s): Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Poison Ivy
Character(s): Poison Ivy
First Line: My name is Vice and this is my associate Versa.
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Character(s): Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]
First Line: Dare-devil flying ace of the U.S. Navy, Spin Shaw makes the most of...
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Pages: 5

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