XOW Logo
  • Location
    • Home
    • Issue Detail, List Content Items
in for
   
by
Facebook Logo
Report a Bug Ask for Support Review Site Apply to be an Editor
Issue: Doll Man #10 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1946
Previous Base Issue Previous Issue Variant Next Issue Variant Next Base Issue
 
Disclose Detail
Issues: #10 of 47 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Favorites Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/21/1946
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Gwen Hansen
Disclose Notes: On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1946-1947, page 113, registration number B36678.
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In1
reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
spacer
Disclose Content Items (7 total)
Disclose Issue Images
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #64 published March 2007
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
Murder Marionettes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Peter Bolini (introduction, death); Anton Bolini (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Doll Man must overcome the sinister Bolini, a modern-day Gepetto, who has made marionettes who kill.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Originally credited to Al Bryant, but few of his many close up faces in side view or female heads with protuding forehead are seen. This is most probably by Elkan, with narrow eyes, abundance of hair on the head. Also the inking is much like his work.
Disclose
The Man Called Grim

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Martha Roberts; Luther; Grim (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Mr. Grim tries to put Martha and her friend Luther into suspended animation coffins so that one hundred years in the future they can easily conquer the weaklings who would surely have proliferated by then.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Originally credited to Al Bryant, but the sharp hard lined faces are most probably by Celardo. Compare with his story in Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #38. It is later than this, but his firm faces and figures are similar. He is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Disclose
The Riddle of the Missing Ears

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Martha (Roberts)
Character(s): Martha Roberts; Philip Randolph (first appearance); De Zerlin (first appearance); Trigger Zerlin and his gang (first appearance; villains)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: We formerly credited the art to Reed Crandall, but that attribution questioned by Steinar Ådland and denied by Crandall expert Roger Hill.
Disclose
One Eye Gets His Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Banning (killer); Russel (killer); Pete DePaw (Canadian trapper); One-Eye (Cree Indian)
Synopsis: The two men had killed a trapper who had stumbled upon a rich gold vein.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Poison Ivy
Character(s): Poison Ivy; Riveter
First Line: Ha-ha! So you wanna be a riveter, eh?
Synopsis: Poison tries to be a riveter but bursts the girders when flattening the rivets.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose
The Good Sport!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Ferris; Sport Gurk (villain, introduction); Gurk's gang (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: Mr. Ferris is acting odd lately, and he spends every night at the Sport Club Place gambling.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Originally credited to Al Bryant, but this is most probably Astarita. Especially the face on top of page 8 is exactly identical to ones found in his signed story in Real Life Comics #53. Also some faces in 3/4 backview with google eyes are similar. Compares well with his story in Jumbo Comics #51.

Alter Ego #141 (August 2016) has article by Hames Ware indicating that the art is by Astarita.

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2025. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.