Best Place to Sell Feature Comics #58

COVER DETAILS

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

Pencils: Gill Fox

Inks: Gill Fox

Colors: Gill Fox

Notes: Art credits verified by Gill Fox in an interview by Jim Amash in Alter-Ego #12 (January, 2002). Fox's color guides were found with the original art.

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STORY DETAILS

Story #1 Story #2 Story #3 Story #4 Story #5 Story #6 Story #7 Story #8 Story #9 Story #10 Story #11 Story #12 Story #13 Story #14 Story #15 Story #16 (16 Stories)

Title: The Dishonorables

Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Professor Roberts; Martha Roberts; the Dishonorables (villains)

Synopsis: Martha and her father succumb to a disease that instills fear into the American people, which is a plot by a group of Americans who had been dishonorably discharged from the armed services.

Pages: 11.000

Script: ? [as Wm. Erwin Maxwell] (credited)

Pencils: Reed Crandall

Inks: Reed Crandall

Notes: The Doll Man stories always carried the by-line of William Erwin Maxwell and did not refer to Reed Crandall in this case.

Characters: Edna

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: Bernard Dibble

Inks: Bernard Dibble

Characters: Samar

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Rafael Astarita [as John Charles]

Inks: Rafael Astarita [as John Charles]

Characters: Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Art Pinajian ?

Inks: Art Pinajian ?

Pages: 0.800

Pencils: Lank Leonard

Inks: Lank Leonard

Notes: Nippie is a top-piece to Mickey Finn Sunday-page reprints.

Pages: 3.200

Pencils: Lank Leonard

Inks: Lank Leonard

Notes: Nippie is a top-piece to Mickey Finn Sunday-page reprints.

Title: The Fargo Kid watches an Indian tribal rite...

Characters: The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner]

Pages: 4.000

Characters: Lala Palooza

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: Bernard Dibble [as B. Dibble] (signed)

Inks: Bernard Dibble [as B. Dibble] (signed)

Title: Swing is leading his band...

Characters: Swing Sisson

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Phil Martin

Inks: Phil Martin

Title: Poison Ivy Dying in City Hospital

Pages: 1.000

Pencils: Gill Fox

Inks: Gill Fox

Title: A long lingering moan reverberates...

Characters: Zero; Sally (niece of Zero); a killer ghost (villain)

Synopsis: Zero is able to save the sorority of his niece Sally from the clutches of a killer ghost.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Toni Blum [as Noel Fowler] (signed)

Pencils: Al Bryant ?

Inks: Al Bryant ?

Notes: Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.

Title: The Black Dragon - Once again!

Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty; Moi Yutong]; Colonel Ames (Brigadier's commander, death); The Black Dragon Society [an imposter Moi Yutong; others unnamed] (villains)

Synopsis: The Black Dragon return to mine San Francisco Bay, and killed the Brigadier's commander in the process.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Paul Gustavson (signed)

Pencils: Paul Gustavson (signed)

Inks: Paul Gustavson (signed)

Letters: Paul Gustavson

Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

Title: Black Market

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Pages: 1.000

Script: Arthur Beeman

Pencils: Arthur Beeman

Inks: Arthur Beeman

Characters: The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayton]; Madam Largossi (villain)

Synopsis: Spider Widow uses her spiders to suss out an evil Japanese collaborator.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Frank Borth

Pencils: Frank Borth

Inks: Frank Borth

Notes: Credits suggested by the Who's Who.

Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Witmer Williams [as Rex Smith] (signed)

Inks: Witmer Williams [as Rex Smith] (signed)

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