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| As I read through these the stories are starting to repeat. We've had "evil puppets" and "lucky guy with a two-headed quarter" come up before as villain schticks in this series. |
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| On the other hand, this is the first time that Doll Man's girl friend has her own feature! Beat that, Lois Lane. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | Autumn 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Quarterly |
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| Featuring | Doll Man |
| Credits | Pencils: Al Bryant? | Inks: Al Bryant? |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane] |
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| Comic Story | Murder Marionettes (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doll Man must overcome the sinister Bolini, a modern-day Gepetto, who has made marionettes who kill. |
| Featuring | Doll Man |
| Credits | Pencils: Max Elkan | Inks: Max Elkan |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Peter Bolini (introduction, death); Anton Bolini (villain, introduction, death) |
| 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. |
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| Comic Story | The Man Called Grim (11 pages) |
| 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. |
| Featuring | Doll Man |
| Credits | Pencils: John Celardo? | Inks: John Celardo? |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Martha Roberts; Luther; Grim (villain, introduction) |
| 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. |
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| Comic Story | The Riddle of the Missing Ears (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Martha (Roberts) |
| Credits | Script: Bill Woolfolk |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Martha Roberts; Philip Randolph (first appearance); De Zerlin (first appearance); Trigger Zerlin and his gang (first appearance; villains) |
| Notes | We formerly credited the art to Reed Crandall, but that attribution questioned by Steinar Ådland and denied by Crandall expert Roger Hill. |
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| Text Story | One Eye Gets His Man (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The two men had killed a trapper who had stumbled upon a rich gold vein. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Banning (killer); Russel (killer); Pete DePaw (Canadian trapper); One-Eye (Cree Indian) |
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| Synopsis | Poison tries to be a riveter but bursts the girders when flattening the rivets. |
| Featuring | Poison Ivy |
| Credits | Script: Gill Fox | Pencils: Gill Fox | Inks: Gill Fox |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy; Riveter |
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| Comic Story | The Good Sport! (14 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mr. Ferris is acting odd lately, and he spends every night at the Sport Club Place gambling. |
| Featuring | The Doll Man |
| Credits | Pencils: Rafael Astarita | Inks: Rafael Astarita |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Ferris; Sport Gurk (villain, introduction); Gurk's gang (villains, introduction for all) |
| 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. |
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