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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
Rating:
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
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; King (villain, introduction, death); King's gang (villains, introduction)
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
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Allura and the Rising Suns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, childrens, espionage
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
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: strip reprints
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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The Musician of Crime

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Swing Sisson; The Musician [Larry Lake] (first appearance; villain; death)
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Pages: 6
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In Toy Land

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

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
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 Sorcerer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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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