| Additional Information |
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| Publication | October 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Jim Amash, in The Quality Companion from TwoMorrows, states that Gill Fox began doing covers on Feature Comics with issue #54. So the "Gil Fox ?" credit we had has been removed. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Rance Keane (inset); Samar (inset); Spin Shaw (inset) |
| Notes | Jim Amash, in The Quality Companion from TwoMorrows, states that Gill Fox began doing covers on Feature Comics with issue #54. So the "Gil Fox ?" credit we had has been removed. |
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| Comic Story | The Laughing Puppeteer (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doll Man must face and defeat the evil puppeteer named Bombasto, who uses shrunken corpses in his work. |
| Credits | Script:? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Martha Roberts; Professor Roberts; Bombasto (villain, introduction); Giuseppe (villain, introduction, death) |
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| Comic Story | The Electric Cage Trap (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rance Keane; Lola Pritchard; Prof. English; A racketeer (first appearance; villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Black Wolf (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy; The Black Wolf (first appearance; villain); Mr. Gunn (first appearance; villain) |
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| Comic Story | Call of the North (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Duke Jackson (first appearance; villain) |
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| Comic Story | Mutiny on the Ghost Galleon (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Zero; Shiela (introduction); Don (introduction); The ghost crew of the Flying Skull (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | Compare art with Hit #1.
Script credit suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | The Kidnapped Heiress (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Mr. Tolliver (first appearance); Betty Tolliver (first appearance); Count Vaslav (first appearance; villain; death) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza |
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| Comic Story | The Horse Race To Save Boyville (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Final appearance in Feature Comics. Have a Laugh appears next in National Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 Series) #12. |
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| Comic Story | Tap Trap (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Spy | Characters: Captain Bruce Blackburn; Louise Lovely (villain, introduction); Anton (villain, introduction); Otto (villain, introductiuon) |
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| Comic Story | Aboard the Ghost Ship (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Voice [Mr. Elixir]; Gerald Carder (villain, villain, death) |
| Notes | Last appearance.
The Voice wears a cape and a hat in this story. |
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| Text Story | Antidote (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Script: Robert M. Hyatt | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Perry Scott |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Dmitri the Pearl Thief (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dusty Dane; Dimitri (first appearance; villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Comic Story | The Amazons of Nesbo (5 pages) |
| Credits | Script: John Charles |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Samar; Queen Sopho (first appearance); Ishta (first appearance); Leba (first appearance); other Amazons of Nesbo (first appearance); Gaol (first appearance); other men of Nesbo (first appearance); Nubians (first appearance; villains) |
| Notes | Compare art with Doll Man #3.
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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