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| Man, I love Doll Man's foes. Turn to page 19 to see what I mean. |
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| No relation to Mr. Tawky Tawny I hope? |
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| One slight correction and clarification to the contents list of this issue, specifically the Lala Palooza story; the last name of Palooza is mispelled in the synopsis. And I think the character featured is Lala's brother, Vincent, so he is a Palooza, but he's not Lala who doesn't appear in the story. Lala's a chubby woman. |
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| Mentioning Tawky Tawny made me wonder who came first. I couldn't remember, so I looked him up in Wikipedia, and his first appearance was dated in a 1947 issue of Captain Marvel Adventures. This issue of Doll Man is dated 1943, so this tiger seems to have come first, though the DC Wiki seems to suggest this villain never made another appearance after this issue. I wonder if the writers at Fawcett were inspired by this story? |
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| I believe that the Buck Rogers comic strip had the Tiger-Men of Mars show up in 1930. So there was a pre-existing pop culture reference for a tiger man. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | Spring 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Quarterly |
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| 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 Toy Shop of Doom (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doll Man must discover the meaning behind every toy doll on sale in a little musty shop which resembles some human being. |
| Featuring | Doll Man |
| Credits | Pencils: Max Elkan | Inks: Max Elkan |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Angelo Pavani (introduction, death); The Toy Merchant (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Originally credited to Rudy Palais. This is Elkan. His heads with high brow and usually much hair on top with a lock of hair on one side: Toy Merchant on page 3, and Pavani on page 8. Also the running figure in front view on page 4. Notice the high brow of Doll Man on pages 9 and 14, and compare all this with his signed story in Hit Comics #20. Palais drew lower brows than this. Elkan is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Synopsis | Palloza tries to be adopted by rich lady. |
| Featuring | Lala Palooza |
| Credits | Script: Bernard Dibble | Pencils: Bernard Dibble | Inks: Bernard Dibble |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza |
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| Comic Story | The Talking Tiger (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | The commander is back from South America with an interesting species. |
| Featuring | The Doll Man |
| Credits | Script: Otto Binder | Pencils: Max Elkan | Inks: Max Elkan |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Martha; The Talking Tiger [Commander Byrton] (villain, introduction); Spike Dugan (villain, introduction); Lona McLean (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Mighty Mite (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Newspapers are full with the news of Grandpop's machanical man going haywire. |
| Featuring | Poison Ivy |
| Credits | Script: Gill Fox | Pencils: Gill Fox | Inks: Gill Fox |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison IvyA robot (villain, introduction, death); Grandpop |
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| Comic Story | Mystery of Morgan's Rock (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | A Nazi spy has a sectret base on Morgan's Rock on the North American coast. |
| Featuring | Doll Man |
| Credits | Pencils: Max Elkan | Inks: Max Elkan |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Manfred (villain, introduction); the Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | Notice the high brow on pages 3 and 4 for an Elkan clue. |
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| Synopsis | Old Boss fears Butch has been eaten by the lion at the circus. |
| Featuring | Big Top |
| Credits | Script: Bernard Dibble | Pencils: Bernard Dibble | Inks: Bernard Dibble |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butch (clown); Old Boss |
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| Comic Story | Vengeance For a Doctor (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Dragon leads his guerillas against the Japanese invaders, saving the life of an American woman who then joins them and serves as a nurse. |
| Featuring | The Dragon |
| Credits | Script: Fred Guardineer | Pencils: Fred Guardineer | Inks: Fred Guardineer | Letters: Fred Guardineer? |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Dragon [Sergeant Red McGraw]; un-named doctor (introduction); the doctor's un-named daughter (introduction); the Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2012-12-16. |
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| Text Story | Wise Guy (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Police tapping the telephone of Fabio the Killer. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Eddie Purdy; Fabio the Killer; Lieutenant Dope |
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| Comic Story | The Mask's Terror Campaign (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doll Man must combat a mad-dog criminal on the loose known as The Mask. |
| Featuring | Doll Man |
| Credits | Pencils: Rudy Palais | Inks: Rudy Palais |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; The Mask [Abe Miller] (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Compare difference between Elkan faces with Palais on page 2 bottom. |
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