Best Place to Sell Feature Comics #55

Publisher: Quality Comics, 1942

About Feature Comics #55

Reed Crandall, Gill Fox, Al Bryant, and Paul Gustavson art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Samar (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); The Doll Man (inset); Zero (inset); Poison Ivy (inset); Reynolds of the Mounted (inset); Big Top (inset); Swing Sisson (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Fargo Kid (inset)

Pencils: Gill Fox ?

Inks: Gill Fox ?

STORY DETAILS

(15 Stories)

Characters: The Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Martha Roberts; Dr. Roberts; two unnamed Nazi painters (villains); the Nazis (villains, some die); Japanese servant of Dr. Roberts (villain)

Synopsis: Darrel and Martha are walking along the street when air raid sirens go off, and they take shelter in a subway tunnel. Two painters are also in there and Darrel notices something strange about them, so he turns into Doll Man and tracks them. Doll Man is puzzled that the Nazis are so accurate in their bomb runs until he sees the painters painting the tops of building (later bombed) with luminous paint.

Pages: 11.000

Script: ? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (credited)

Pencils: Reed Crandall

Inks: Reed Crandall

Notes: The name William Erwin Maxwell was found on most of the early Doll Man strips, but had no relation to artist Crandall.

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: John Devlin

Inks: John Devlin

Notes: Writer credit revised from Joe Devlin to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. Devlin did not write this strip according to the Who's Who. Artist correction from Joe (who did not exist) to John Devlin also made by Craig Delich.

Characters: Zero; Dr. Winters; Hiram (farmer, death); Gloria (Hiram's daughter); John (villain, Hiram's stepson, death); Hiram's un-named housekeeper (villain)

Synopsis: Zero is asked search the remains of a wealthy farmer in order to obtain a locket that contains the location of the farmer's hidden fortune, but stepson John wants to beat Zero to the punch. John is killed and Zero discovers that Hiram's body is missing from the vault.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Witmer Williams

Inks: Witmer Williams

Notes: Artist revision from Al Bryant to Williams per Craig Delich 2013-12-3. Toni Blum is the only person identified by the Who's Who as the writer for this feature from 1940-43.

Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty]

Pages: 6.000

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.

Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license

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Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
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