Feature Comics #57 Mile High Pedigree (Quality, 1942) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages....

Record Price at Heritage Auctions: $900.00

Sold: Mar 17, 2019

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Publisher: Quality Comics, 1942

About Feature Comics #57

Features Doll Man, Samar, Spin Shaw, and Mickey Finn. Spider Widow begins. Reed Crandall, 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); Mickey Finn (inset); Samar (inset)

Pencils: John Devlin

Inks: John Devlin

Notes: Artist correction from Joe Devlin (who did not exist) to John Devlin made by Craig Delich 2013-4-6.

STORY DETAILS

(15 Stories)

Title: The Japanese Doll Man

Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; a Japanese "Doll Man" (villain, introduction, death); Agent N (villain, introduction, death); Dr. Hoto (villain, introduction); the Japanese (villains)

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!

Pages: 11.000

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

Pencils: Reed Crandall

Inks: Reed Crandall

Title: The Ghost of Al Margotti

Characters: Zero; Julie (introduction); Xavier Jones (chemist, introduction); Al Margotti (villain, a ghost, introduction, death)

Synopsis: Zero meets a chemist who has invented a "ghost disintegrator".

Pages: 5.000

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.

Title: The Origin of the Spider Widow

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)

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.

Pages: 6.000

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.

Title: The Black Dragon Society

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)

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.

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.

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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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