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| Date | | Number: 57 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Feature Comics 57 (alt) | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly | Editing: Gill Fox |
| Notes | The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Lala Palooza; Vincent; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Samar (inset) |
| Pencils | John Devlin |
| Inks | John Devlin |
| First Line | Never mind the next adagio step, Lala... |
| Notes | Artist correction from Joe Devlin (who did not exist) to John Devlin made by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. |
| Comic Story | The Japanese Doll Man / Doll Man (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Japanese force their own scientist, Dr. Hoto, to reproduce the Doll Man's shrinking serum, and, after several failures, he succeeds in shrinking a wrestler, whose strength was increased, but mind was destroyed. Doll Man tricks his foe into a cannon, shooting him to the sharks! |
| Script | ? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (credited) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; a Japanese "Doll Man" (villain, introduction, death); Agent N (villain, introduction, death); Dr. Hoto (villain, introduction); the Japanese (villains) |
| Pencils | Reed Crandall |
| Inks | Reed Crandall |
| Story | Big Top (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Pencils | Bernard Dibble |
| Inks | Bernard Dibble |
| Notes | Writer credit revised from Bernard Dibble to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. Dibble did not write this strip according to the Who's Who. |
| Comic Story | The Ghost of Al Margotti / Zero, Ghost Detective (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zero meets a chemist who has invented a "ghost disintegrator". |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Zero; Julie (introduction); Xavier Jones (chemist, introduction); Al Margotti (villain, a ghost, introduction, death) |
| Script | Toni Blum |
| Pencils | Al Bryant |
| Inks | Al Bryant |
| Notes | Toni Blum is the only person identified by the Who's Who as the writer for this feature from 1940-43. |
| Story | Mickey Finn (4 pages) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Lank Leonard |
| Pencils | Lank Leonard |
| Inks | Lank Leonard |
| Notes | strip reprints |
| Comic Story | The Origin of the Spider Widow / The Spider Widow (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A pair of mobsters visit Dianne's home, needing some gasoline for their getaway car. Dianne then donned an old green rubber mask, gathered some of her gardener's pet spiders, and hid inside the crook's trunk. When they arrived at the criminal's lair, she first learned that Lardo was sympathetic to Hitler, then scared his men with black widow spiders, over-coming all of them for the Police to round up. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayton] (introduction, origin); Bob Ableson (friend of Dianne's, introduction); Jake Lardo (villain, introduction); Lardo's gang (villains, introduction for all); Hetzernoff (villain, introduction, death) |
| Script | Frank Borth (signed) |
| Pencils | Frank Borth (signed) |
| Inks | Frank Borth (signed) |
| Notes | The Who's Who indicates Borth as not only creator of this strip, but the writer and artist as well. |
| Comic Story | The Eastern Gangster Invasion / Fargo Kid (4 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner] |
| Pencils | Alex Koda (signed) |
| Inks | Alex Koda (signed) |
| Notes | Signed in the last panel. |
| Story | Lala Palooza (2 pages) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Lala Palooza |
| Pencils | Bernard Dibble |
| Inks | Bernard Dibble |
| Notes | Writer credit revised from Bernard Dibble to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. Dibble did not write this strip according to the Who's Who. |
| Comic Story | Mike Yemon's Protection Racket / Swing Sisson (6 pages) |
| Genre | Humor; Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Swing Sisson; Mike Yemon and his gang (first appearance; villains) |
| Script | Phil Martin |
| Pencils | Phil Martin |
| Inks | Phil Martin |
| Comic Story | The Self-Stranglers / Poison Ivy (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Poison Ivy |
| Script | Gill Fox |
| Pencils | Gill Fox |
| Inks | Gill Fox |
| Comic Story | Samar Vs. the Gorilla / Samar (5 pages) |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Samar; Otto (villain); another spy (villain) |
| Pencils | Max Elkan |
| Inks | Max Elkan |
| Comic Story | The Black Dragon Society / Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rusty and the Boyville Brigadiers decide to challenge the Black Dragon Society, and, to this end, accept a young Chinese woman, Moi Yutong, into their ranks. Soon after, she was kidnapped in front of their eyes, and it took some gunplay and rough stuff to rescue her. |
| Genre | Adventure; Children; Spy |
| Characters | Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty; Moi Yutong (introduction)]; The Black Dragon Society [a Moi Yutong impostor; others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all) |
| Script | Paul Gustavson |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson |
| Letters | Paul Gustavson |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
| Text Story | Bloom's Death (2 pages) |
| Feature | Perry Scott |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Story | Homer Doodle and Son (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Pencils | Arthur Beeman |
| Inks | Arthur Beeman |
| Comic Story | No Title (5 pages) |
| Feature | Richards of the Mounties |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Pencils | Art Pinajian |
| Inks | Art Pinajian |
| First Line | Into the Giant Redwood Forest of the Northwest... |
| Story | Spin Shaw (6 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure; Aviation |
| Characters | Spin Shaw |
| Pencils | Witmer Williams (signed) |
| Inks | Witmer Williams (signed) |
| First Line | Nothing in the Blue Sky or the Open Sea... |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
