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| Hey, the Doll Man stories were better than I thought they'd be. And it's much better to get Torchy in small doses--this was her first appearance. |
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| Publication | Spring 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Quarterly |
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| Cover | The Doll Man, Mighty Mite of Action, in 3 Big Stories! |
| Featuring | Doll Man |
| Credits | Pencils: Al Bryant (signed) | Inks: Al Bryant (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane] |
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| Comic Story | The Corpse of the Doll Man (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dr. Vargo selects criminals for his experiments to reduce humans to tiny beings and keeps them on a small island. Doll Man finds himself dumped onto that island, where Vargo is forced to flee from these savage beings, who blow up the castle, killing all concerned. |
| Featuring | Doll Man |
| Credits | Script: Joe Millard | Pencils: Dan Zolnerowich? | Inks: Bob Fujitani? |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Dr. Vargo (villain, introduction, death); Slick Scanlon (villain, introduction); Doper (villain, introduction); other miniature people (villains, introduction for all, all die) |
| Notes | Al Bryant has shorter figures with more rounded faces than this. It look more like Zolnerowich's figures with long torso and special way of walking and running. The inking looks more like Fuji with the narrower female faces with gaping mouth than Bryant, page 4 and 5. The grinning faces of the villains with marked smiling cheeks look like Fuji too. Uncertain credits. |
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| Comic Story | The Man With the Terrible Eyes (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Archer spent most of his life searching for the Hypnotism of Death and now he uses it to kill. |
| Featuring | Doll Man |
| Credits | Pencils: Dan Zolnerowich | Inks: Dan Zolnerowich? |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Archer Cravath (first appearance; villain; death); Grogan (police officer); Dr. Roberts; Dr. Welsey |
| Notes | Originally credited to Al Bryant, but the pencil work is by Zolne with his very peculiar drawling way of walking, page 2 and 3. Like in many of his Black X stories. He is credited on both pencils and ink, but inking is a bit different from his signed stories using much more thin penlines. |
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| Comic Story | Introducing Torchy (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Torchy sockes the face of the Mayor's son and gets in the papers and a new job as secretary. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Torchy Todd (first appearance); Mayor |
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| Synopsis | Candy reads a book on correct posture, finds a valuable marker stone and attends the Shooktown Jitter Jump. |
| Featuring | Candy |
| Credits | Script: Harry Sahle | Pencils: Harry Sahle | Inks: Harry Sahle |
| Content | Genre: Teen; Humor | Characters: Candy O'Connor; Tim O'Connor (father); Ted (boyfriend) |
| Notes | three strips |
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| Text Story | The Eyes of Eric (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Eric was an adventurer among the islands of the South Seas. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Eric Logan; Kwong (philosopher) |
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| Synopsis | Two men try to kidnap Poison Ivy. |
| Featuring | Poison Ivy |
| Credits | Script: Gill Fox | Pencils: Gill Fox | Inks: Gill Fox |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy; Kidnappers |
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| Comic Story | The Will of Enos Gotch (14 pages) |
| Synopsis | A fortune hidden in an antique secretary furniture. |
| Featuring | Doll Man |
| Credits | Script: Joe Millard | Pencils: Dan Zolnerowich | Inks: Dan Zolnerowich? |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Louie Jerris (first appearance; villain); Eggy (first appearance; villain); Avis Gotch (first appearance; villain) |
| Notes | Originally credited "Bill Ward?". Page 2 and 8 has a figure leaning forward from the hips and with stretched neck like Zolne. The butler entering the room on page 5 moves his legs in a shuffling way, and the bent knees of Darrel on page 12 are all signs of Zolne. He is credited on both pencils and ink, but inking a bit different from his signed story in Fight Comics #15. |
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